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11/26/2007: "August Rush...two thumbs up!"

Need a pick me up, feel good, good music...go see August Rush...predictable but still worth it.

You might not have enough patience to take a storybook and read a tale from beginning to the end, even though you could find it some pleasurable experience. If reading doesn’t appeal to you, there’s a cinematographic fairytale available.

“August Rush” is an extremely romantic depiction of love, with a series of coincidences that make you think that the inexorability of destiny and life cannot be hindered by anything, be it parents or years of absence.

The movie starts with the premise of “Romeo And Juliet”, two youngsters fall in love, but are separated by her father (and here ends the resemblance with the Shakespearian play). The two, Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) share the love for music and a special talent in it, he is an Irish guitarist and she is a cellist. And their child, August Rush (Freddie Highmore) will be a prodigious musician, but neither his parents will know that, as Louis will be completely separated from his sweetheart, never knowing that he has a son and Lyla will be told that the baby died.

August grows up in a home for boys and is taken care of Wizard (Robin Williams), constantly augmenting his special talent in music. He has the strong belief that his aptitude will help find his parents and guess what! He will! Oops, that was a surprise, but it’s not like nobody isn’t expecting that!