Crazy, Stupid, Title

Am I the only one who is bothered by this? (Well, no, as it turns out.)

A poster recently appeared at the Clinton-Washington stop on the C line, informing me that Steve Carell is starring in a movie called Crazy Stupid Love.

So far so good. I like Steve Carell well enough, and the movie is getting good reviews.

Then I learn that the actual title of the movie (despite the lack of commas on the poster) is Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Why? Why? Why? Why is it that a studio can spend millions of dollars making a movie and not spare a few bucks to hire a reasonably bright middle-school student to check that the title doesn’t violate basic rules of American punctuation?

It occurred to me, as the article linked above suggests, that some might say that “crazy” and “stupid” are not actually adjectives modifying “love” but that all three words are just jumbled together because of their associations. It’s possible, but it would be weird. And I doubt it.

I have not been this annoyed by a movie title since Jacknife with Robert DeNiro.