Good movie but grossly overrated

Good concept, poorly executed.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I once saw pieces of Down with Love on TV. The film is extremely silly and over the top. That was the first thing that caught my eye then and made me interested. However, after all these years that level of silliness just feels annoying. Of course this movie has something amazing as well, like the kind of plot twists you would never see coming, and a lot of them. Still, even they don't seem to be enough to salvage the movie. It's boring, and eventually quite predictable, if you don't the plot twists that shuffle the pack a bit. The 60's aesthetic and music is a nice touch, but eventually this movie was a big let down. The cast is excellent, though.

More than a hint of Day and Hudson here. The general similarity to Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back is unmistakable, and yet this movie is fresh, amusing and delightful. It's light and fluffy and the leads are wonderfully 60's camp in their roles. No deep thinking is necessary here - it's not Dr. Zhivago, after all. However, the level of amusement (and nostalgia) is high. Renee and Ewan play excellently off each other, and David is a delight, playing much like his character in Frasier. There are several recognisable actors in what amount to cameo parts, Tony Randal being one such. This too is an homage to similar characters he played in the Day/Hudson movies. All-in-all this movie is good, gentle fun.

Thought it might be interesting to read reviews, got through a dozen or so, and concluded IMDb's users, at least in this case, might be as well informed as tea party activists. This sendup of helen gurley brown's Sex and the Single Girl was about as good as light hearted as tongue-in-cheek sendups get. And since the original was in the genre of its remake (read Brown's notes in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair), you can find it a clever period hoot. But you'll have to get past your cliché blinders. No Doris Day, no Rock Hudson - the principals are Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis. Blonde hair and Anglo-American accoutremente don't change that.That's all folks. Enjoy a reprise of the reagan administration,oh, and Check out 'bonzo' and 'death valley days' if you wonder where all that Leadership talent started.

Meet Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) he's a "ladies man, man's man, man about town" type of guy, and Barbara (Renée Zellweger) is more of a man's woman, all decked in pink but independent. She wrote the book on how to live life without a man. Literally."Down with Love" is an ode to the sex films of the 1960s. Down to the fashions, feminism, and sex talk à la "Pillow Talk"(1959). It even stars Tony Randall too. It is a gorgeous film, with a lot of pink, a sexy leading man, and a lot of sexual innuendos. But compared to the Judd Apatow sex comedies of the 2000s, this is tame. Well silly and way over-the-top, but still pretty tame.McGregor is gorgeous as the sexy leading man and Zellweger is pink-ified as the feminist leading woman. They have their fair share of sex jokes, gender stereotypes and ruses, but it's also really funny. "Down with Love" is a fun romp through 2003 disguised as 1962.