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Sadly Over-hyped

Memorable, crazy movie

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

You by now should have read the plot and this does review does not contain any spoilers.It is a great film, has great acting.Good story, lots of twists and turns in it, very funny.Its a simple love tale, with a few surprises on the journey.I take this off the shelf every few months to watch.Same class as love actually, Notting hill, etc.If you are looking for an action film, go elsewhere.If you want a feel good film, this is for you.When friends come to stay, I show them this film and they all enjoy it.Don't be put off by some of the other reviews.

I'd like to add my vote to the non-haters of this movie. Also I am on a one-man campaign to persuade reviewers and posters to stay away from extreme best-worst knee jerk judgments.The movie is reasonably entertaining, based on usual clichés of small-time America, British-American culture chasm, etc.. The women are nice to look at. Colin Firth does an average job, which suffers from comparison with some of his major movies. Also both he and Hugh Grant have clearly been over-stretching their franchise on the bumbling Brit cliché.All together, if you stumble into this while zapping channels, you won't be sorry.

(warning: mild spoilers)take a simple but cute idea, the desperate guy abandoned by his fiancée, flies from the UK to the US (supposed to be Maine, but actually filmed in British Columbia), chooses his destination because the town is called "Hope", and on day two meets the cutest sweetest girl in the whole region, but also with a wild fun side so you don't get bored.add some pretty solid names in acting: Colin Firth (sure he was less famous then), Minnie Driver. Add a cute blonde who can act namely Heather Graham. In the "supporting" roles put actors of such caliber that they can do much better than just "support": Mary Steenburgen, Frank Collison, and of course Oliver Platt (who was nicely leaner back then).so, in theory, you could have done something bordering on the very good, cute, touching, powerful, and so on.but, unfortunately, the script lacks power, the direction lacks power, the whole plot logic could have been made both better and denser.so at the end of the day, we're left with a film which is fine to watch on a lazy evening with the wife, and has its cute moments - but could have been seriously better. Maybe it was too ambitious, too big budget a film, to good a crew of actors, for director Mark Hermann. Too bad.

I was seriously disappointed with this film which I felt lacked in romance and comedy. However, this man, though fighting some issues lives out every man's dream... two beautiful women fighting over him both of which are eager to just strip and jump all over him, without the man having to do any persuading and he actually asks them not to (very unrealistic and definitely NOT romantic). And the one who the "romance" is suppose to occur with asks this depressed man, recently broken up with his fiancé' to go somewhere to help as a friend then proceeds to down an entire bottle of alcohol like it was water then drive him high speed through town running stop lights and the like to return to his apartment where she quickly strips to dance naked and "free" in front of him.... wow! Oh yeah, they only met the day before this (How Romantic!!NOT!!) And the whole movie is just as odd! I am so glad that I only rented this movie!