Wednesday, 8 August 2012

DVD review: Going the distance


It’s about the perils of a long distance relationship.

In the increasingly arthritic rom com the long distance relationship has been strangely absent, until now.
Evidently satisfied by one of the last few unmined hooks the filmmakers forgot again to put an healthy amount of genuinely comic moments. The whole movie is so adherent to the established rom com traditions that it’s impossible to avid a sense of déjà vu at each and every scene.
Luckily for them they got one of the great staples of the genre in Drew Barrymore. She doesn’t have that great comic timing but she is so sympathetic, so girl next door, that it’s impossible not to root for her, even when the other lead is Justin Long, who still enjoy a surprising clout considering the number of roles he is getting.
With a plot that doesn’t manage to get over “Long distance relationships never work” this entry is just for die hard rom com fans.

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