Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Mike Beranek There's something so so clever and beguiling about this movie even though at the end of the day it never seems to go anywhere, or really do anything, or say something - about love for instance. Down With Love certainly warrants more than a couple of points for the dazzling production design and art direction. Ultimately I felt I was not watching a film in the usual sense of investing something in it, but more that I was watching an earnest and fascinating product of the film industry, a post-modern wheeze with plenty of ubtuse contemporary cultural references. It had an odd hold for my cinephile self, perhaps like for a train spotter gazing into a whezeing veteran engine, but on a human level there wasn't anything below the artifice and crucially the casting seemed implausible for the romantic couple. I think another reviewer nailed it in pointing out that there was so much effort in parodying the idiocies and anachronisms of the 1960s it rather fell into the trap of appearing just dumb & stupid to the core. But this is an interesting problem in itself, and for me it's worthy of some redeeming points for sheer ambition and spirited effort.

SnoopyStyle It's 1962 NYC. Barbara Novak (Renée Zellweger) is new to the city. Vikki Hiller (Sarah Paulson) is publishing her new book "Down with Love" which teaches woman to live independently. Vikki and the book are both dismissed by her bosses. She gets Barbara an interview with dashing ladies' man Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor), a writer for a woman's magazine. Peter MacMannus (David Hyde Pierce) is his editor who sets up the meeting because he's infatuated with Vikki. Catcher brushes her off expecting a bookish spinster. Then the book becomes an international success and Barbara calls out his womanizing ways. He pretends to be Zip Martin to sweep her off her feet.This is a nice homage to the breezy 60s rom-com. Renée Zellweger is more than fun and she has sassy chemistry with Ewan McGregor. The style does overwhelm the story a little. Also, I expected a musical with that style. It's slightly disappointing that they don't break out into a song and dance until the closing credits. It's fun but it's also very light and fluffy.

PrettyKitty0 Down with Love was a nice idea for a movie. I was expecting something fresh and original from this movie. The performances are consistent, and the fast-paced feel of the movie is nice, but the movie tries too hard. When I say the movie tries too hard, I mean the OTHER twist at the end. When Renee's character, Barbara, turns out to also be someone other than who we think she is. I was fine with Ewan's character using another identity, it made sense, but when Renee's character reveals she's someone else, it just ruined the movie for me.The movie is entertaining, but the twist is just annoying. It was unexpected, I can say that much, but it wasn't needed. The movie could've been much better without that twist.

writers_reign For me the selling point of this movie was David Hyde Pierce. I got to know him via Frasier, in fact that was all I knew of him so I was pleasantly surprised to see him listed as chief support in what was clearly a comedy. It turned out it was a rip-off of Pillow Talk - the one where super-stud Rock Hudson pretends to be Caspar Milquetoast to get into Doris Day's pants. Tony Randall was usually along for ride back then, more often than not as the millionaire employer of whatever character Hudson was playing and completely in thrall to him. This time Hyde Piece plays the Randall role and the real Randall has a cameo. Tempus fugit. It's a pleasant enough time-waster but that's all.