The cute and sweet Drew Barrymore is back once again in another romantic comedy and this one rightfully titled "Going the Distance" is a very funny and touching one. It shows just how hard a long distance relationship is to maintain, and timing is so important. It involves two thirty year old's in New York Barrymore as Erin a newspaper reporter and Garrett(Justin Long)as a record producer who both meet at a bar and have a one night stand. Then love and romance both blossoms as both are big pop culture fans of the 1980's. Only it gets complex when Erin tries to head west to San Francisco for a new life and she works her way waiting tables while doing grad school at Stanford.
Yet this romance stays alive with text messages, emails, phone calls, photos sent by mail and computer plus even funny crazy phone sex. Then when cross country visits happen both realize what they are missing that's one another. The film being a comedy doesn't try to dig into much drama yet the script and love making scenes are laced with vulgar words and done in a Judd Apatow obscenity manner. Still the film focuses on the real life matters of decision making such as job placement and settling into the right geography location.
In the end like most romantic comedies things work for themselves, overall "Going the Distance" is a very funny and humane obscenity treat in which Drew Barrymore is as cute and sexy as expected and Justin Long shows some good skill as an actor. And a good wild card treat was Charlie Day's performance as Garrett's lonely and horny friend. Most of all this romantic comedy proves timing needs to be right to give love a chance and long distance relationships are possible.
Yet this romance stays alive with text messages, emails, phone calls, photos sent by mail and computer plus even funny crazy phone sex. Then when cross country visits happen both realize what they are missing that's one another. The film being a comedy doesn't try to dig into much drama yet the script and love making scenes are laced with vulgar words and done in a Judd Apatow obscenity manner. Still the film focuses on the real life matters of decision making such as job placement and settling into the right geography location.
In the end like most romantic comedies things work for themselves, overall "Going the Distance" is a very funny and humane obscenity treat in which Drew Barrymore is as cute and sexy as expected and Justin Long shows some good skill as an actor. And a good wild card treat was Charlie Day's performance as Garrett's lonely and horny friend. Most of all this romantic comedy proves timing needs to be right to give love a chance and long distance relationships are possible.