New
rule--if they are going to show full female frontal nudity they have to
show full male frontal nudity! Okay, I got that out of my system. Anne
Hathaway and Jake  Gyllenhaal have good bodies--you certainly see a lot of both of them having a lot
of sex--charisma and chemistry as co-stars. As a romantic comedy "Love
and Other Drugs" starts off showing a lot of promise but after an hour
starts to sink.

Hathaway
plays Maggie, a woman in the first stage of Parkinson's disease and
Jake is a womanizing salesman who gets in on the ground floor selling
Viagra. They meet, have lots and lots of sex without commitment,
spending more time together nude than dressed.

You expect a certain amount of crass, vulgar jokes and, of course, you are going to have that 'side effect' of Viagra and Gyllenhaal goes through that '4 hour' stint but, and this a big but (in more ways
than one) you also get Josh Gad as Jake's younger brother Josh.

Where to start with Josh? First of all I hope the actor is so superb
that he is in no way, including his physical appearance, like his
character. There isn't anyway, unless adoption is involved, that he and
Jake would be brothers aside from the fact not having any looks in
common their personalities are so different and there is no resemblance between him and his parents, played by George Segal and Jill Clayburgh, in her last appearance on film before her death.

I
don't know the man, the actor, but I would be very happy to never see
him in a film again. Normally I would blame the director, Edward Zwick,
and/or the  writers, in this case Mr. Zwick, Charles Randolph and
Marshall Herskovitz, for a badly written part directed by a bad director
but this actor has to take most of the blame.

After
the first hours, actually the last 53 minutes, the film goes right down
the drain with tangents going off to doctors on the take, salesmen
doing whatever it takes to sell a product, a porn follower masturbating
(guess who?) to a video of his brother having sex with the latters girlfriend, a pajama party that turns into a threesome, seniors taking a
bus trip to Canada for prescription drugs, looking for a cure for
Parkinson disease, let's not forget the couple and their problems and
all that is just part of the last 53 minutes.

This
being a Hollywood movie, and a woman with a life threatening disease,
you know there will be tears along the way but that's not a spoiler!

One last thing--how/why does Oliver Platt keep getting work?