The Silver Screen
Movie Review: 'Like Crazy' – Young Love Has Never Been So Uninteresting
This story of young, long-distance love has been better told by other movies.
Have you ever experienced young, long-distance love? If you have, your story is probably a lot more interesting than what happens in Like Crazy, Drake Doremus' new movie on that very subject. The film, a festival darling earlier this year, tells a thin and wispy story about shallow, underdeveloped characters about whom I had a lot of trouble caring. Imagine it as (500) Days of Summer, only with considerably less-appealing characters and minus the wit, humor or creativity. It's also clearly autobiographical, although unlike in 500 Days the director resists the urge to call his former lover a "bitch" by name in the opening titles. Like Crazy tells the story of American Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and British Anna (Felicity Jones), a couple in …
