Crazy, Stupid, Love- Steve Carrell and Emma Stone

The Gist

Crazy, Stupid, Love
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Cal has an extremely normal life.  He works in cubical, has two kids and a beautiful wife.  Jacob has the life of every man's dreams.  He has a one night stand with a different girl every night and NEVER has to worry about falling in love.  Cal's life is shattered when one night at a dinner date with his wife when she announces that she would like to get a divorce. After hearing the news Cal spends the rest of his night at the bar that Jacob mostly spends his nights picking up girls.  The whole night Cal complains about his wife and he makes sure that everyone in the bar is able to hear what he is saying even if they don't care.  After a couple of hours Jacob decides to go over and talk to Cal and decides to see if he can help him.  Jacob offers to make Cal attractive to women so that he can start dating again and begin to get over the pain caused in his heart by his wife.  Cal quickly takes up on the offer and wants nothing more than to forget about his wife.  Meanwhile, Jacob has found the first girl to ever reject him from a good night out (Hannah) and her answer astounds him.  He tries everything in the book and she still won't budge to go out with him. As Jacob grows closer to Hannah he feels that he may be falling in love with her so he goes to Cal with love questions.  Together the two guys form an...interesting friendship and try to help each other through the problems and figure out how love exactly works.

What We Think
Reviewed by The North Star
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
This was one of those movies that seemed to be advertised on TV forever and built up a lot of hype and in people's head thought it was going to be amazing.  I also saw this movie to have potential to show all of its good jokes in the commercials.  Soon after the movie came out it got rave reviews and everyone was talking about how funny it was and in my head the expectations kept rising.  The next time that I went to the movies this was the one that we had decided on and I couldn't have been happier at the end.  This movie was extremely entertaining a definitely lived up the the high ratings that it was getting.  Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell made the best team and I give major props to the casting director because everyone fit there roles perfectly.

Characters. Cal was a very lovable guy and the whole time I was rooting for him to win and kept cheering in my head keep going Cal things will get better.  The thing that I really liked about his character was the fact that he never gave up on things that he started.  Most people would have given up the second something happened but he kept trying to get the few things that he wanted in life.  Although Steve Carrell did play a character extremely close to Michael Scott (from the Office) he made things different and I didn't see him as Michael Scott, which was something I was scared of going into the movie.  Ryan Gosling was surprisingly good as his character and always had me laughing at something that he said.  The only other time that I have seen Ryan Gosling in a movie was in the Notebook and that was a cheesy romance movie so it was really cool to see him in a completely different element.  I didn't root for his character as much as Cal but I still rooted for him in this weird sort of way but all in all he did a good job playing a womanizer.  Emily, the wife was one of my least favorite characters in the movie.  The arguments that she tried to make made no sense but it was probably a good thing that I didn't like her because I don't think that you were supposed to like her character anyways.  The acting was good but I just didn't care for the character or think anything that she said was funny.  The final real main character was Emma Stone (Hannah) and I loved her character.  Hannah was a very witty character and I think I really liked her because she seemed like a regular college girl.  She was a character that a lot of girls could relate to.  The great thing about this movie that everyone could relate in some way to one of the main characters.

The one bad thing about this movie was the fact that in the end they tried to pull this big twist that didn't need to be pulled and although it was funny at the time, looking back on it, it wasn't needed.  That was really the only BIG thing that went wrong with the movie.  Besides that, this movie was hilarious and is a movie to see on a Friday night with a bunch of friends.  Most comedies that have come out lately haven't been that good or that funny but this one changed it up and was funny! Just go see it :)

Real Teen Rating~ A-: See it with some friends!