Don Juan DeMarco

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Summary: Sweetly romantic with a quirky twist.
Review: I just loved this feel-good comedy about a young man who thinks he is the Great Lover and the psychiatrist who is supposed to cure him, but is unable to resist the appeal of Don Juan's fantastic world. Sure, it is silly and romantic, but there is a darker undertone that leaves you wondering what sanity really means... END

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Summary: it is a beautiful movie about romance & the meaning of love!
Review: this movie captures your heart and makes you fall in love with love (and johnny depp). don juan is absolutely gorgeous in this film which only adds to the romance.this is a perfect movie which everyone must see!!!!! END

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Summary: watch it with your man/woman (it's even better)
Review: Aside from really liking Johnny Depp who plays the perfect romantic, this movie is adorable, filled with love, humour, poetic dreaminess and dramatic flair. Don Juan DeMarco shows the doctor how to stay young and passionate at heart, though a little bit corny. If you watch this by yourself, you will be sorely missing your significant other (or wanting one). And you may wonder if the genre is romance or comedy - at Blockbuster it's a comedy.

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Summary: Four Questions
Review: A must have for all Johnny Depp fans! He makes you melt! His acting is amazing! Remember there are only four questions that matter in life and the answer to them all is Johnny Depp!!

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Summary: It sings? (sigh)
Review: There are 2 movies, other than The Godfather, Streetcar Named Desire and The Contender, for which I want to remember Marlon Brando: A Bedtime Story and Don Juan de Marco. How many comedies has he made? In Don Juan de Marco, I enjoyed watching him be part of an ensemble cast, which has never really been his modus operandi on other sets. As much as he derided acting as a profession, his performance in this movie seemed to argue that he still liked doing it.

It is a very funny, sexy flight of notions about fantasy and reality, much like Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart did decades ago. Johnny Depp, Brando, Faye Dunaway and company, to paraphrase a line from the movie, really have a way of putting the story in touch with what is real. With Mexican ballads and exotic settings, Don Juan is like a male Sheherazad, buying time and confounding the truth. As a lovesick worshipper of romance, he asks why we even bother to call it love any more in a modern world rushing past emotion for the carrots at the end of the stick in our lives.

Just an aside, in the commentary for The Usual Suspects, the director mentioned that, after the filming of a street scene, Gabriel Bryne and company heard that Don Juan de Marco was filming at a location near there. The whole set was reputed to be filled with nude women bathing. They all rushed over to check it out. I tell this story to my guy friends who are quick to dismiss it on the grounds that it is a chick flick. It got the Usual Suspects anecdote of approval. They might argue that all the beautiful nude and/or scantily clad women would have made them watch, but they are acting like Rocco, the male nurse in the hospital Ð I mean at Don Octavio de FloresÕ villa, and you know what happened to Rocco Ð if not watch this movie.

The people in the audience that saw it with me back in 1995 enjoyed it enough to not just applaud afterward but to come out chatting and politely flirting while filing out of the theater. The ushers standing by the exit mentioned that Don Juan de Marco Òthawed everybody outÓ in a way they had not seen by other movies. Watching it on DVD with friends can be just as fun. Muy romantica! (Dancing to one of the songs in the sound track Me Siento Loco, Poco a Poco Ð translation: I Feel Crazy, Little by Little.)

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Summary: A stellar cast in a bad movie
Review: With the recent death of legendary Marlon Brando, I've been watching his films lately as my own way of paying respects. Brando's talent was near genius that almost none can surpass. Oh sure, there are a handful of actors in certain roles who are as good or better as he was. However, the overall quality of acting in each of Brando's films, taken collectively, is unsurpassed. Johnny Depp is one of, if perhaps the only, actor of this generation who could maybe eclipse Brando. That they were friends solidifies this premise.

That said, I was so excited to see Brando, Depp, Dunaway, and Selena (albeit in a very small singing part) together in one film. But I must say, after watching it, I was disappointed. It wasn't Depp's accent (he did convincingly well) but the plot - if you want to call it - that was a big let-down. Brando is sweet and charming; Dunaway is beautiful as ever; and, of course, Depp is ultra suave and sexy as Don Juan. The movie starts off kinda cute, you wonder where it's going to go, and then - boom! The let-down. What was the point of this movie? I just didn't get it. Was it lust or love? Even if it was either or, I just came away thinking, "Who cares?"

If it weren't for the phenomenal actors, this film wouldn't have made a pile of beans. What a flop and a disappointment.

Well, there is just one more thing I'll admit that is good about this flick: the theme song. Bryan Adams' "Have you ever really loved a woman" is a most beautiful love song and it will remain my favorite. It ties in well with the movie with its Latin guitar strings.

The music and the actors themselves make for this movie, but the storyline is disappointing and disbelievable.

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Summary: ...Johnny at his most magnetic
Review: I think I`ve written that line before... But who cares? This is a well written, amusing piece of entertainment.... You`ll love the interplay between Brando and Depp... Miss Dunaway`s character is under-developed, but overall - a good film... It brings u back to the days of Valentino and make-believe... Look out for the ill-fated Selena in the restaurant scene....

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Summary: Made Me Feel Glad To Be A Woman
Review: I loved this movie! First of all, Marlon Brando did an excellent job (as always) in his role as the psychiatrist and Johnny Depp portrayed an excellent Mexican, accent and all! I was extremely impressed with each of their performances.

But more than that . . . the whole plot left you wondering how it would end . . .who was this man really? A few delightful twists and turns made you laugh and it made me feel good as a woman, expecially when Don Juan DeMarco expressed how lingerie floats over a woman's body. How sensual! The way he wooed women with his sweet talk is how any woman would like to be respected. The movie gave me the sense that men really do love women and answered the all-time question of "Why?"

Not just a 'chick' flick - this movie has a message for all the men. Marlon Brando's character got the message - will you? Girls, watch this one with your boyfriend, and women - set your hubbies down with a giant container of buttered popcorn. This one's a keeper.

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Summary: Some great insights
Review: The movie is full of insights about what women love but never admit. "Behind the scene" picture of women's hidden passion and desire (in the unconscious) that they search for. Don Juan DeMarco is man with whom any woman will TRY not to fall in love but cannot help it. A high dose of romantic fantasy(???) with mixtures of real life feelings.

A must see for all real men.

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Summary: a good message; a bad movie
Review: The plot of this movie carries an excellent message, but tons of gratuitous nudity, some bizarrely timed humor, a certain amount of ongoing refusal to distinguish between love and lust, and what looks to me like extreme cynicism on the part of the screenwriter make it awfully hard to get at that message.
The basic plot is that eternal question: Who's truly insane, the madman living a rich and fulfilling life, or the doctor who tries to convince him to give that life up in favor of the soul-deadening "reality" that society has agreed upon?
The sad thing is that this could easily have been an excellent movie; Depp and Brando, especially, have a few of those lines that will stick with you forever, and the character of Donna Ines really touched me, too. But at times a certain sardonic tone is taken (especially in the corniness of "Donna Ana's" appearance in the ending), which suggests that somebody was determined to dilute the impact of an extremely powerful moral.