Third (and last) Marc Shaiman's work for director Ron Underwood, who then would spend four years in approaching his following work, Mighty Joe Young, and whose late movies didnt work in the box office (Pluto Nash).
Its a kind of a romantic comedy that presents the clash between two writers of political speeches, embarked in a whole full campaign and in a love and hate relationship. Geena Davis (Nominated for the Golden Globe for this role) and Michael Keaton are not bad at all and the movie contains some good moments.
From the initial credits we can imagine what kind of musical tone will be reigning Shaiman's score: a music too vibrant and brimming with life, with many mickey-mousing and double side comical and political. The campaign and its evolution gives course for passages of "electoral action" music that offer some splendid moments, though the excess of dialogue and the extreme excess of songs reduce a lot the protagonism and opportunities for the composer. The political pomposity and verbosity, as well as the clash between the protagonists give us high musical moments that results even exaggerated (use of drums in a military tone).
There are some commercial songs that are not neccesary for the movie, and because of this fact turns out strange that a compact disc (even for the songs) was never released. Among the musical themes is necessary to recall "No Sé Tú", performed by Luis Miguel and that appears almost six times, turning to be a key topic in the love relationship of the protagonists (and removing protagonism, once again, to the romantic oriented material composed by Shaiman, that luckyly appears sometimes). It turns out curious that the movie got the title of the song "No Sé Tú" for its Mexican release. Its also interesting the use of the memorable theme from Casablanca "As Times Goes By" from Casablanca, and Shaiman does what he can among so much dialogue and songs.
Definitively, a forgotten score from the composer that even is not among his best, deserves a cd release.

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