I'm generally not attracted to romantic comedies, but I wanted to see this one because I'm a huge fan of the eighties and I wanted to? know how they raised the theme of a star of the decade trying to return to the scene. In reality it is a phenomenon that is occurring especially in England. Police, Duran Duran or A-ha are just? some of those who have returned from oblivion to fill pavilions with? his old music and new attempts at 'hit'.
? In this sense, the best is the video clip of the eighties group Pop! at the beginning of the film, of which our protagonist was a member, a Hugh Grant in his usual records. The video with the song 'Pop! Goes my heart '? it is a paradigm of eighties music and aesthetics. As a counterpoint, there is the parody of the current star type Shakira, more focused on dance, sensuality, spirituality and the artificial mixture of cultures than on content. Between two icons of musical frovolidad, the film clearly takes sides with the era of the 'New Wave' and the 'New Romantics'.
The story has few surprises: it follows the usual canons of romantic comedies and falls too short on humor in my opinion. Sometimes it raises the personal problems of the protagonist couple in an inadequate deep way, and I don't know who can feel identified with the problems of both, so far from the most common? of mortals.
Nor does the film have more pretensions. For very 'pop' entertainment: disposable?