As the summer movie season rolls along and most of us anticipate films like
Super 8, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and
Cowboys and Aliens,
Entertainment Weekly suggests the movie of the summer might be
Crazy, Stupid, Love. Yes, the cheesy looking romantic comedy starring
Steve Carell as a newly single man who splits with his wife (
Julianne Moore) and attempts to reenter the dating scene with the help of womanizer
Ryan Gosling, who himself falls for a girl played by
Emma Stone. That movie. In the latest issue of
Entertainment Weekly, the film is widely praised with the headline "Best Romantic Comedy Ever Made (Recently)" and is favorably compared to
Jerry Maguire and
About a Boy. Read some of the quotes after the jump.
The article (which is not yet online) appears in the June 3/10 issue of
Entertainment Weekly (with Jason Bateman on the cover) and was written by EW Executive Editor Jeff Giles. Giles says that while the full reviews won't run until closer to the July 29 release date "EW staffers already feel evangelical about the movie" and that a made-up tagline like "It's better than everything else. No, shut up, it is" would be appropriate to describe it. Here's the trailer just so we're all on the same page.
From the trailer, it seems pretty obvious what's going to happen. As Carell's character becomes more like ...