We've experienced mad "Red Band" abuse lately, haven't we? Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis stripped to the waist and humored us with swear words in the Friends with Benefits red band trailer, and the anal shenanigans in I Love You, Philip Morris's trailer were over in a matter of milliseconds. Tsk. Thankfully, Love and Other Drugs's new trailer picks up the slack with a hearty erection, but is the rest of the trailer any good? Join us for the full preview.
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I know what you're thinking: You can't believe Anne Hathaway's scoring Oscar buzz off this either. That all should be quashed by next week, judging by the onslaught of junior-high boner humor that has come to define the movie.
For some reason I'm happy to see Gyllenhaal in a downright sleazy role. He and Hathaway have great post-Brokebackian chemistry, and that's fabulous and somewhat redeeming, but they can't elevate a mediocre conceit to award-season contention. I mean, you can picture Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in these roles, right?
Verdict: A placebo that leaves you limp