I really liked The 4:30 Movie! As Kevin Smith goes through the various phases of his life he produces very different types of films and some of them I've liked and others I haven't. This is the first of his films that felt like a nice warm hug. Smith has been a dad for a while now, but I understand from interviews that this is his first film sober in a while and I guess it allows his sentimentality to come through a little more genuinely in this nice sweet period piece of a film. His collaboration with Bear McCreary on the soundtrack manages to feel much the same way. It's like the 1980s coming through with the nicest rose-colored glasses possible.
This song is the peak, with sweet 80s saxophones, somewhat silly lyrics, but a whole lot of fun and heart. It feels distinctively like the film in a way that I'm not sure I've encountered outside of well... other 80s films. I just love the song, it feels tactilely good. It recommends itself and the film effectively.
"Somewhere out there I've been hearing this love song"
It also feels like McCreary and his brother are tapping into their own nostalgia and a bit of their own schmaltz on this song. Like the film, it feels like a creation that someone had fun putting together. I feel like that is an undervalued quality these days, and one that seems rarer all the time.
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