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Summary: Good Movie - Get it for your wife.
Review: This is a good movie and the DVD presentation is decent. There are no extras, besides the trailer, but I think that it is worth the price.The main reason that I bought it and that I think it deserves one star above the middle-of-the-road (3) is that there are TONS of guy movies out, including Terminators, DieHards, SciFi movies, etc. - and not enough movies for the guys' wives. This is a movie that my wife and I could both watch together without her getting the "I-watched-your-movie-now-you-owe-me" attitude after. If you want a good DVD to help you feel less guilty for having 20 movies for every one of your wife's, get this one. Jeremy
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Summary: GOOD
Review: This is a great film of love comedy and great acting. There is some great laughs from John Candy. A great film to sit and watch with someone you like
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Summary: It's enlightning!
Review: This is a great movie to cuddle up with your husband/wife or best friend and eat popcorn. You laugh at the movie, you cry at the movie. It's a classic!
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Summary: Man falls in love with a Mermaid -- He's in for a splash!
Review: This is a love story as sweet as they come. An 8-year old boy falls off of a tour boat at Cape Cod and is saved from drowning by what appears to be a little girl mermaid. The boy never forgets about what happened that day, although everyone insists he was hallucinating. -- Years later, now a man (and played by Tom Hanks), another trip to Cape Cod brings a dejavu: Hanks falls off of a tour boat and is rescued by an all grown mermaid (played by Daryl Hannah). Could it be the same mermaid that saved him when he was a boy? -- The mermaid has normal legs when kept dry, but once douced with water, the legs turn into fish finns. Hannah is able to conseal her true identity, until a "bad guy" exposes her. There are complications, but eventually everything comes up roses. -- One great scene is where the grown up mermaid spends 6 hours in the electronics department of a store, and learns the English language fluently by watching tv non-stop. Cute! -- This film is very entertaining and helps us feel compassion for anyone who is somehow different from what society considers the norm. The somewhat predictable ending is beautiful!
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Summary: "Mermaids and Hotels"
Review: This is a VERY funny look at a lonely, single bachelor(Tom Hanks) who has nothing at all going for him until he has a close call with death and is saved by a mermaid with a human touch. John Candy is very funny in it and there are some other funny people, too. One of the funniest films of the 80s. Better than "Fletch"
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Summary: Splash is one of the best romantic comedies ever!!!
Review: This is an excellent romantic comedy about a man and a mermaid who fall in love for each other in a modern fairy tale. This film was one of Tom Hanks' earliest hits that made him the huge superstar that he is today. Co-star Daryl Hannah, who plays Madison the mermaid, became herself a huge star from this film, but now times have changed in her film career, which has faded during the 1990s, which is sad. She is a great actress. John Candy plays Tom Hanks' older brother with Eugene Levy playing a crazy scientist who tries to prove that mermaids exist. These two provide some of the film's hilarious comedic moments. The romantic chemistry between Hanks' Allen Bauer and Hannah's Madison are just well done. Their characters' relationship just becomes true romance throughout the entire film. When Madison eventually gets caught as her mermaid fish body, Allen realizes that Madison is the one true love that he can never lose. Allen, along with his brother and the crazy scientist, band together to rescue her. Later, Allen realizes that Madison was the little girl mermaid that rescued him when he was a young boy in the film's opening flashback sequence. Madison and Allen were fated to be with each other! Splash was directed by Ron Howard, who is, of course, one of Hollywood's great filmmakers. A movie about a mermaid has to be good, and Splash does this so well. Tips off to the crew of this movie who made it so real. The underwater sequences are well done, as well as Daryl Hannah herself as the mermaid. She is just utterly believable as a mermaid! I must say that she is just so sexy in the rubber mermaid tail suit. She swims in it so well! I really thought that she played Madison to perfection! This movie really brought a fairy tale type story to life. A must see for everyone. I guess this film obviously makes for a great date movie. On one other note, most people probably don't know this, but Splash was followed up by a Disney TV movie sequel in 1988 that aired in two parts on the ABC network on what used to be a show called "The Disney Sunday Movie". The sequel was called Splash, Too and starred Todd Waring as Allen Bauer and Amy Yasbeck (movies "Problem Child" 1 and 2, "The Mask", and TV's "Wings") as Madison Bauer, now married from a Neptune ceremony. This sequel has Allen and Madsion come back to New York from their island hideaway to help Allen's brother Freddie (played by Donovan Scott) save Bauer Produce from going out of business. Madison has her own agenda later on as she finds a dolphin she knows from her past, named Salti, captured by another crazy scientist for study. Not a great sequel of course (as sequels usually are) but it was sort of nice to know that Allen and Madison had another adventure. There were some funny moments in the movie. It was particularly challenging to see Madison cope with suburban life and trying to understand how to be a housewife. I wasn't bothered that much with the recasting of new actors as these characters either. I did like Amy Yasbeck's portrayal of Madison in this sequel. She too swims and looks nice in a mermaid fish tail as well! A worthy successor to Daryl Hannah in her own right. Unfortunately, this sequel is not available on home video to my knowledge.
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Summary: It made a star of Tom Hanks and an icon of Ron Howard
Review: This is an oooold movie, as you'll realize when you see how very very young Tom Hanks is in it. He was an unknown with not much more than a TV sitcom to his credit when also unknown Ron Howard tapped him for the roll in Splash with Daryl Hannah.
It could have been just a piece of trash - a mermaid who comes to Manhattan looking for the guy she saved from drowning - twice - and fell in love with. She doesn't even know her own name and takes Madison as her moniker as she happened to be standing on the corner of Madison Ave when he asked her.
But in the hands of Howard and with Hanks and Hannah doing their damdest, it turned into a really sweet and funny movie that became a surprise hit and made a name for the directors and actors.
Worth watching, even now.
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Summary: 4 3/4 Stars really, But Who's Counting
Review: This is the movie that took a young TV actor named Tom Hanks and made him a movie star. It didn't hurt the careers of Daryl Hannah, John Candy, or Ron Howard, either. Allen Bauer (Hanks) is on the rebound when a mermaid (Hannah) comes to New York looking for him. She saved him from drowning twice, although his memories of being saved are a bit hazy. He falls in love with her, of course, without realizing exactly what he's in for, because her tail changes into legs when dry. Add in Allen's playboy brother (Candy) and a zany scientist seeking to prove the existence of mermaids, and you have all the necessary ingredients for a very funny movie. My problem was how to rate this movie. I don't really consider it to be quite a classic like "Tootsie", "Arsenic and Old Lace" or some of the others I have rated 5 star comedies here. On the other hand, it is a personal favorite, I own a copy, and I have enjoyed watching it many times. So consider it about a 4 3/4 star movie (I rounded off). Whatever, anybody who enjoys comedy should certainly get a good laugh from "Splash". It's a great "date" movie, too, so watch it with a friend.
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Summary: How's this for romance?
Review: This is the very first movie my wife and I saw together. We were dating in college and this was the perfect "date" movie. We loved it and eventually got married (all because of this movie?!). To add to it... our daughter, now 2-1/2, is named Madison after Daryl Hannah's character. We're not big movie fans, but this one has a special place in our hearts.
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Summary: its ok
Review: this movie is ok not my favorite but its ok.
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