An otherwise mundane rom-com that doesn’t know how to handle its one point-of-difference; and even that isn’t as much of a big deal as its writers think it is.
Despite all its flaws, however, Up For Love coasts by on the chemistry between Dujardin and a radiant Efira and a smooth soundtrack that stretches from Donna Summer to Anthony And The Johnsons via Chopin.
There are some well-observed scenes detailing the embarrassment of the lovers as they try to adjust to each others' heights, one straining his neck by staring upward, the other hurting her back by looking downward. What the film lacks, though, is charm.
Oscar winner Jean Dujardin plays a vertically challenged lover in a comedy that constantly misfires.
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