Down with Down With Love - go watch Pillow Talk!

I had assumed Down With Love would be a film that was made just for me.

I love the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the 60s - so I would 'get' the characters and the deliberately dated plot about the battle of the sexes.

But I'm also savvy enough about films to see just how clever it all is - getting two top Hollywood stars to act in such a tongue in cheek way, all sashaying around the screen in outrageous costumes and pouting expressions. How could I lose?

However, it just didn't work.

The plot retread almost exactly the same plot as Pillow Talk - OK with a nice twist at the end to keep the us 21st century gals happy. Both the leads fail to convince - particularly Ewan McGregor, who is simply not, ahem, manly enough to pull off the "ladies man, man's man, man about town" role. The whole point about Rock Hudson characters in the 60's films were that he was so dreamy that any woman would drop anything to be with him! David Hyde Pierce was excellent however as Catcher Block's editor and best friend.

Ultimately the film suffers from a crisis of identity. Is it supposed to be a straight homage of a 60's comedy? Or a film to poke fun at the old films?

The film has the feel of being destined for the theatre, where the over-acting, tired plots and admittedly wonderful costumes and back drops would be much better suited!

One for curiosity value only.