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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Wonderful Movie

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This movie caught my attention on Cable TV's HBO.I thought it would be a stereotyped, hyped, overblown character movie and I was absolutely correct - and I was also damned wrong too!How do you write a "realistic" script based upon a young black hustler from Los Angeles running a pub in Ireland? When has there been such an event to occur in the Emerald Isle? So give it a chance!No one really speaks about the Irish as "Ni--ers" in Europe and America. Call them the Fighting Irish, the Lucky Shamrocks, but this movie gave every viewer a new definition of the "Black Irish". So I was intrigued and astonished as the characters discussed this in the village square.Ireland is always romanticized and its traditions are to blame. Every Irish commenter complains about it - and I guess secretly would be mad as hell if Ireland ever lost its glossy image. What's a more "realistic" Ireland these days? I guess it's true that you get whatever you put into any subject.Let me say that Griffin marrying and kissing his costar at the end of the movie made my day! My ex-lover who's Irish married a black man and they have had quite an unusual romance (until he died) so it was entertaining to see ART imitate LIFE and not vice-versa for once...This movie is not a classic. Will never ever be a masterpiece. And I wouldn't want it any other way. Monique being kicked back into a bathtub wearing a wedding dress is not Shakespeare - it's funny!Watching an entire village nearly begging a lovable hustler to stay among them is priceless. My home of America is a true "melting pot" of just about every race & culture, the "land of the free and the home of the brave" - but I'll never see Ethnic Irish visitors being asked by the gangs of South Central Los Angeles to move in nor will I see it occur in Beverly Hills either. Yet I have enough faith in the Irish to see it happen one day to someone visiting like the "Jimmy Jam".This movie is an entertaining, multi-dimensional, comedic, fairytale, about what was never ever supposed to happen and did - against everyone else's say-so and better judgment. Watch it, laugh at it, ridicule it, and then when no one else is looking - love it.It's an original concept.

With all due respect to my Irish brothers and sisters, I wasn't too offended by the stereotypes in this movie -- African American OR Irish. It was just a cute film. I don't know Irish accents very well, so I'm going to assume, based on what many of the Irish posters said, that they were brutal. But, as far as escapism -- this did it for me. I love how parts of Ireland look (Damn you 'Quiet Man') and I wasn't disappointed by the pastoral beauty. I KNOW that it's an artificial view, just as artificial as a big, black, loud woman in a wedding dress stalking Eddie Griffin's character around the world. Give this film a chance just to touch you and it will. I'm not a big fan of Eddie Griffin and my only *minor* complaint with him is that this could have been a little better movie with a more skilled actor. Still, there's just a general good spirit that permeates this film.SPOILERS -- For those who see it as hackneyed, of COURSE, the mute child would speak by the end. Of COURSE, the bullies would get their comeuppance. And... OF COURSE the male and female leads were going to dance to some Motown in the kitchen. Sometimes I'm not in the mood for 'Happily Ever After', but these characters were pleasant and the female lead was a great singer -- and easy on the eyes. What was done exceptionally well, in my opinion, was that Griffin (for the most part) didn't turn into Super Black Man and pull amazing physical feats out of his cornhole. The scam was a bit untidy, though. For a central plot point, it should have been a little tighter. WHERE did the $90 million come from that they bated the villain with? And, if they had that much dough, why in the hell would they worry about the relative drop-in-the bucket amount that the town owed? And, as an earlier poster suggested - how does an entire village have one mortgage?

A beautiful movie in several ways. Anna Friel as Maureen is lovely to watch as her past and background develop. Her daughter, played by Tallulah Pitt-Brown, is charming and nearly steals the show in many of her appearances.But the real star is the village of Ballywood, which exudes old-Irish charm ... as it eases into the 21st century. Ireland of today is not the third world country of last century. As the townspeople accept and embrace Eddie Griffin's character, their personality unfolds.Great music, scenery, and characterizations round out an enjoyable movie.

When I see Eddie Griffin I was thinking... "Oh God, another vehicle for this modern-day Stepin Fetchit to come and trash in the name of appearing politically correct" WRONG! Eddie as Jimmy McDevitt in the USA was a loser's loser - landlord tosses him and his possessions out, creditors at his back and a psycho lady (played by Mo'Nique, first time I disliked her - good acting) that he jilted is chasing him to the ends of the Earth...He butts up on a newspaper ad that he mistakenly thinks is the Caribbean, and ends up winning an Irish pub - which is where the fun begins! Jimmy getting used to Celtic maudlinery and their style of dancing and cadence of singing. Jimmy slowly getting entangled in a triangle betwixt himself and Anna Friel as Maureen a widowed lass who helps run Finnigan's pub and the man who came up with the idea to auction the pub to save the village from an evil land developer...Also the village's priest is the scene-stealer when he appears! A man of the cloth in leathers for motorcycling and punching when required, so much for pacifism! Lord Hailstock is the furthest thing from Irish you'd expect, totally Anglicised in the vein of a Colonel Blimp type, he ill treats his butler/secretary/manservant - eventually to his cost, when you see! The slow evolution of the romance between Jimmy and Maureen and the misperception of his actions and the deft insight of Maureen's daughter who's a self-inflicted mute after the death of her father combined with the other threads make it fine Celtic Tapestry.