Round Peg, Square Hole

Let's first admit that Drake isn't a film maker. Prior to making Like Crazy, Drake maybe juvenile movies. He isn't the only director to go from raunchy movies to attempting something serious. Kevin Smith went from Clerks and Mall Rats to Chasing Amy, one could easily compare Chasing Amy to Like Crazy. Both show a relationship doomed from the start though the characters try to make it work. In Kevin's movie the result is that the characters are sent back to zero while Drake attempted to give the audience a "happy ending" without understanding his own film. The logical conclusion for this movie would have been for it to end in divorce, and I'd even argue that it would have produced a much happier ending.

Jacob and Anna are sophomoric characters that don't understand concepts like love though they think they do because they are college graduates. They are both too selfish to truly love one another, as is indicated by the fact they both get into serious relationships while they are supposed to be married. This movie would have been better served if it had showed the complex nature of long distance, over seas relationships rather than marginalizing it by forcing the characters to marry and then to produce an ending where all is forgotten and they will awkwardly live happily ever after.

Drake isn't a film maker, this movie is just that, a movie. The message gets muddled somewhere between Anton and Felicity looking at each other while cheap elevator music plays. Without dick and fart jokes to fill empty spaces in the dialogue, Drake did something only talented directors ought to attempt: give actors free will. Seriously, has anyone seen actors talking during interviews?