Overdose of ‘Love and Other Drugs’

Side effects of watching “Love and Other Drugs” might include abnormally increased sexuality, brutal honesty and a strong possibility of experiencing an identity crisis.

This romantic dramedy about a pharmaceutical drug salesman that strikes gold with Viagra tags itself as an adult rom-com. Yet it’s loaded with characters that are constantly nude, have sex on the mind or act as if they were pulled from teen sex romps.

It’s all over the place, and yet it tries to call attention to its cliches with every lightning-fast line of dialogue that checks subtlety at the front door.

At one moment it follows Anne Hathaway to a convention of people struggling with Parkinson’s Disease, and the next moment follows Jake Gyllenhaal to a raging orgy.

I wasn’t buying the romance. It takes a lot to make Hathaway stop being cute, and the number of sexual innuendos tries pretty hard (no pun intended).

By the time Gyllenhaal experienced the most famous side effect of Viagra, I diagnosed “Love and Other Drugs” as seriously schizophrenic.