“Like Crazy” is, like, annoying. This movie, starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, is supposed to be about a monumental love and you’re supposed to want them to overcome all obstacles and be together. However, these two are so irritating that you’d much rather see them apart. And the separate lives Yelchin’s Jacob and Jones’ Anna are living, in different cities on different continents, makes more sense. But writer/director Drake Doremus keeps finding ways to shove them back together so much of “Like Crazy” feels artificial.
Jacob and Anna both attend a Los Angeles college and they fall in love. Because Anna, a Brit, is attending on a visa, she is supposed to return to London when it runs out. But that seems unreasonable for them – they’re young and in love and the rules shouldn’t apply. So she violates the terms of her visa. When she does return to England, she is not allowed to re-enter the US. What follows are text messages, terse phone messages and missed connections. Their exchanges are frequently sulky and ill-tempered for no good reason. It would have been more poignant if the reason for their estrangement wasn't so avoidable. All Anna had to do was go to London for the summer and return a few months later. It's obvious that the love Anna and Jacob experience is young love, full of impetuous actions that can’t be sustained without proximity. The foundation for their love is not strong enough to weather the challenges that ensue. “Like Crazy” is ultimately exasperating and tiresome. 11/20/11
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After all is said and done, this relationship had to crash and burn. The marriage had grown cold and the the pair, although together, was burnt out. Like so many kids who are young and "in love" the marriage was a house of cards. Not a very good movie like I had hoped, skip it!!
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