Music and Lyrics

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Music and Lyrics is available in Australia on Amazon Prime Video and Stan right now. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Drew Barrymore sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. There is no real reason to keep putting it off — it is right there on Amazon Prime Video.

Music and Lyrics arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The jokes in Music and Lyrics land because the characters underneath them are worth caring about. A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written lyrics and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. The chemistry Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant bring to it does a lot of the heavy lifting. It hit screens in 2007. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and Music and Lyrics holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

If you need a comedy that actually makes you laugh, Music and Lyrics is a strong candidate. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch from start to finish. Drew Barrymore anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.