Man, does Drew Barrymore and Justin Long's new romantic comedy look completely delightful:
I understand that not everyone likes Barrymore, but I love her. And I love that this is a second romantic comedy where she plays someone who is uncompromisingly devoted to her career. She and Long have tremendous chemistry, which makes sense, given their real-life coupledom. I don't have exceptionally strong feelings about Long, but I love Charlie Day. I love Jason Sudeikis. I love Jim Gaffigan, and it makes me happy that he's yet ANOTHER My Boys alum appearing in a good-looking project. This just has a lot of snap and chemistry (the botched phone sex scene is wonderfully plausible) in addition to the marvelous cast, but more important, perhaps, is what it doesn't have: ludicrous situations, immediately annoying conceits or side characters, or evident and ugly sexism (something that I thought made (500)Days of Summer outright unpleasant instead of just annoying). That alone would make it worth checking out. Everything else gives it a chance to be excellent.