Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Rolfe Kent

Released on 13/10/2009 by WaterTower Music
Main artists: Rolfe Kent
Genre: Film Soundtracks

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Silva Screen Records released the soundtrack album for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy in which a contemporary womanizer gets his comeuppance in the manner of Ebenezer Scrooge, on the same day that it issued the soundtrack album for 17 Again, another rom-com with a magical element. That's appropriate, since both scores were composed by Rolfe Kent, and he has taken a similar approach to each, in that he has taken his jobs way too seriously. Ghosts is a better score than 17 Again, particularly because it's a more consistent work than its scattershot partner, but, like 17 Again, it is hard to identify as music for a comedy. Kent would blame his director, Mark Waters, who "wanted drama from this music, not just a romantic-comedy score but a sense that the stakes are high...." Kent has accommodated him, providing orchestral music full of feeling with emotional highs and lows. Trouble is, the stakes aren't really high. Ghosts, in addition to being a broadly played comedy, is also nearly unwatchable junk, its only redeeming element being Michael Douglas' performance in a small part in which he does the best impersonation of Robert Evans since Dustin Hoffman's in Wag the Dog. Of course, the lack of quality of the movie itself is not the composer's fault, and he is bound to obey his director, but the inappropriate music is just one more thing that makes Ghosts of Girlfriends Past a waste of time.

© William Ruhlmann /TiVo

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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Rolfe Kent

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