Review: Love and Other Drugs Trailer

Love and Other Drugs tries its hands at many different styles, all of which have potential - but never really succeeds at any of them due to the uneasy nature at which they fit together as a whole.

The film would've been much better if it simply decided whether it wants to be a simple rom-com with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway as the will they/won't they couple, or a screwball comedy with Gyllenhaal's Randall and his increasingly desperate attempts to sell enough prescription drugs and get promoted to Chicago. Option three would be to drop the comedy altogether and focus on the impact the onset of Hathaway's stage one Parkinson's has on the relationship. yet the film tries to shoehorn all this into under 2 hours and it never really works.

For long periods it does seem to be going down the more interesting route of exploring the couple trying to hold it together in the dace of a terrible illness, but at crucial moments it jumps back into the prescription drugs plot, even more baffling as Gyllenhaal's character never really gives the impression he's that bothered about the job. Add in Josh Gad as his brother who seems to walked straight in from a Judd Apatow film and it starts to feel like you're watching two films cut together such is the disjointed feel.

Still despite its flaws, I do find it hard to hate any film that features Anne Hathaway getting naked for a surprising amount of time.

Review: Source Code

Starring Jake Jake Gyllenhaal as a brain stored in a container, this really should've been called Jarhead - but we've seen that film before, which is also strangely apt as Source Code is based around Jake living the same 8 minutes over and over again as he tries to save the day and stop the bomber on the train.

For a film based on such repetition, Source Code never bores, the changes keep your interest throughout. Wisely short and snappy at 90 minutes, Source Code doesn't give you time to think about a plot that probably has a million holes in it if you really thought long and hard about it and instead is entertaining pop corn fare that doesn't treat its audience like idiots.