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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Review: I SAW SWEET HOME ALABAMA 4 TIMES ALREADY!!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE AND REESE WITHERSPOON IS GREAT AND SHE REALLY INSPIRED ME !!!! I THINK JAKE (JOSH LUCAS) IS SOOOO CUTE I FIRST SAW IT AND I FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS EYES AND SMILE:} THIS MOVIE IS SO0O0 ROMANTIC AND FUNNY THEY NEED TO COME OUT WITH A BOOK WELL ALL U OUT THERE THAT DIDN'T LIKE THIS MOVIE YOUR CRAZY !!! I LOVED IT I EVEN GOT MY HAIR CUT LYK RESSE WITHERSPOON ONLY A LITTLE LONGER THANK U <3 ALWAYS AbBy
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Summary: This Is An Outrage!!!
Review: I can't believe the way they portay southerners. I mean, we always get portrayed as being unebucated, and dum... why's that, huh? This is the most degrobulating film i have ever whitnessed. If you're from the south - just like me - than you will protest this southern debauchery.
Don't see this blubert of a movie - it's deligerant!
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Summary: "Heart warming and Romantic-This is def. a movie to see!"
Review: "Sweet Home Alabama" is probably the sweetest movie I have ever seen. The young and prosperous, blonde, city girl, Melanie, is making a living in New York, designing clothes. She has everything she could ever want, including the engagement ring of the mayor's son. However, when wedding bells draw nearer, Melanie has to revisit her past to take care of some unfinished business, way out in Greenville, Alabama. Planning to only stay for a few days, see her parents and get down to business, Melanie becomes wrapped back up in her past and begins having second thoughts about why she left in the first place. With several changes in the events, Mel begins to understand the love she once felt for her first love, first kiss (at age 10) and first husband, Jake. She needs to get him to sign divorce papers that she has been struggling to do for the past seven years. Yet, the longer Mel stays in Alabama the harder it seems for her to remember why she wanted them signed in the first place. Torn between the simple life she once knew and the future of riches ahead of her, Melanie must choose.
This movie was simple, yet perfectly constructed. It brought out all my emotions, making me laugh and cry. I was on the edge of my seat a few times wanting to yell at the screen and tell Melanie to pick Jake, for she belonged with him. This movie was very realistic. It was heartwarming and made me think a lot of the life I live. This movie was also very romantic, but not overdone. According to some people, they thought it was quiet predictable, and I do have to agree in some instances. However, sometimes that is exactly what you need; a good, old fashioned, "happily ever after" love story. Honestly, that is why I liked it so much, because the predictability of it made it realistic, which made me strongly connect with it.
The first scene in the movie began with Melanie and Jake as little kids. They were on the beach in the middle of a thunderstorm, where they had their first kiss, just as lightening struck. They realized at that moment that when the lightening hit the sand it turned into glass. This is a very sacred moment for them and the secret to the rest of the movie. Without giving away too much, the story ends the same way and with me in the audience bawling my eyes out because it was so romantic and wonderful.
I connected this movie with "A Walk to Remember." Even though their plots were very different and it wasn't the actual story lines that made me relate to them, they were both romantic, pure-hearted movies. They portrayed relationships and love in the simplest and sweetest ways. I was so intrigued by both of them because they were not dirty or repulsive. I found both of them to be a rare sighting for a Hollywood movie, which made me highly appreciate them.
I would definitely recommend "Sweet Home Alabama." I am not sure how much guys would be interested in it, but I would push girls to go see it any day. It was not only the love and romance that I liked; this movie had a great plot and build up. Nothing happened too quickly or seemed unrealistic. They did a really good job with this movie and I have to say, "It is definitely one of my new all time favorites!" If you ever get the chance you should go see it because you are missing out on a wonderful movie if you don't!
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Summary: A Just Alright Movie
Review: It's all been done before. The woman trying to find herself leaves her past behind to find a better life, becoming someone she is not, later to find out she has betrayed the very people who care about her. This plot has been used in countless movies. Ummm...... none come to mind right now but the movie just seemed to familiar for us to care. Plus the ending gets so jumbled that i think even the cast did not know what was going on. The movie does have its laughs, but all in all turns out to be a ridiculous and awkward premise for this type of movie. I'm sure some women will still flock to go see this movie and make their boyfriends go see it as well, since now favorite Reese Witherspoon is in it and it has already made quite a bit of money. But as for pure intelligence and originality it has none. I would recommend the movie for its minor laughs or if you would just like to laugh at the movie itself for its silly storyline.
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Summary: An ok film, but likely an embarrassment to many Southerners
Review: I give this movie 3 stars because of Reese Witherspoon and the unconventional cutie who plays her husband. I can imagine that many "yankees" like to think that the true South is the one portrayed in this film...I have lived in the South all of my life and have never met people as trashy as the southerners portrayed in this movie. As a proud Southerner myself, it gets old watching Hollywood-made movies that portray us as a bunch of beer-guzzling, bed-hopping, shack-living rednecks. Yes there are people like that down here but not all of us are like that. And I can guarantee you that no good ol' boy redneck would divulge that he was gay to his drinking buddies, and if he did, he sure wouldn't be accepted as well as the gay guy was in this movie. That's a nice idea and all, but it wouldn't happen. All of that aside, why would a girl who comes from such a background escape to the big city, make it big as a clothing designer, land a great fiancee, then give it all up to live the bumpkin life again? Sorry but I don't buy it. And the way she turned on and turned off her southern accent (depending on the person she was trying to be at the moment) made the whole thing seem so fake. Maybe it was symbolic of the superficial life she was living. All in all, this is a worthwhile movie to rent with your friends. I really wish the love story had been more developed between Witherspoon's character and whoever played her husband. The movie jumps from them being 10 years old, then to being 20 somethings who can't stand the sight of each other. It would have been interesting to see the actually love story unfold, and it would have been a little more believable if her husband had made more of an effort to show his love for her, instead during the whole movie he acts like he couldn't care less whether she's around or not, which makes the viewer wonder why she gave up her great NYC life for him.
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Summary: Cute, but way too stereotypical of the South....
Review: This film is a cute "date" or "girls night out" movie and Reese Witherspoon is, as usual, charming. She didn't carry the film alone though. She had help from Josh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey whose characters were both very solid. The whole idea about the childhood romance and the glass connection is the most clever part of the plot. The rest is pretty predictable. While I enjoyed most of the film, I think the references to the South were way too hokey. My family is all from the south and I can tell you that I have never in my life seen a "Coon Dog Cemetery". Civil War enthusiasts are all over this country, North AND South. Some of the most avid ones are in Gettysburg, PA!(not to take away anything from Gettysburg; it's a must see) I'm just sick of the depiction of southerners as backward, uneducated and unwilling to see the big, wide world! If you are looking for depictions of the charm of southern life, rent Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy or My Louisiana Sky. Or better still, read Bailey White's "Mama Makes Up Her Mind" or "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel". On the whole this is a passable movie, but I would rent it! By the way, if you're a Reese fan, I loved one of her earliest movies..."The Man in the Moon". It's deep and sad, but she shines it!
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Summary: Yeah, this could really happen (NOT)
Review: If you like dumb Southerners and dumber plots, this is the movie for you. Reese Witherspoon stars as a poor girl from backwoods Alabama who made it big in NYC as a fashion designer. She is now engaged to the dashing son (Patrick Dempsey) of the Mayor of New York City (Candice Bergen). Seems like she forgot to mention to her fiance that she's still married to a hick back home, and she goes down to Alabama to get him to sign the divorce papers. If you can't predict where this movie is going after the first 15 minutes, I'd like to talk to you about some great swamp land for sale. Honestly, this movie is so hokey I could hardly keep my eyes open. Witherspoon has a very pretty face and plays the dumb blonde very well (Legally Blonde), but she never convinced me she was a fashion designer or a Southerner . Dempsey and Josh Lucas, who plays her drunken-bum husband, are likewise attractive, but totally forgettable as actors. They lack any charisma or chemistry with Witherspoon. Bergen is a hoot as a manipulating mayor, but looked too young to be Dempsey's mother. The plot was so corny, the characters so cliched, and the ending so dopey, I am just amazed that it's getting such rave reviews. Nobody would give up her New York life for a trailer-park existence in gritsville. It looks to me like somebody heard the song "Sweet Home Alabama" and said, "Hey! Let's make a movie outta that song!" Well, they did, it seems to be doing well at the box-office, but I challenge anyone to remember it six months from now.
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Summary: Reese is Amazing
Review: I love this movie and i love Reese! She's an amazing actress all of her movies are great! Sweet Home Alabama is just a light harted sweet movie!
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Summary: America is in love with Reese Witherspoon.....
Review: But Reese has made better choices with her material in the past. "Election", "Cruel Intentions" and "Legally Blonde" all gave her an opportunity to showcase her skills in completely different types of roles. Here, she plays the character that used to be cast with Julia Roberts....but like Roberts, she needs to distinguish between the script and director (think "My Best Friend's Wedding" vs. "America's Sweethearts") and make sure she keeps accepting parts where the director/script will be able to bring out either the Grace Kelly side of her or the ditzy Goldie Hawn-type role she's been successful with. The director of "Sweet Home Alabama", Andy Tennant, is a true romantic. "Ever After", the Drew Barrymore vehicle in 1998 was a visually stunning recreation of a classic fairytale with modern characters in princely clothing. One of my favorites! "Anna and the King" was a "shouldabeen" film; costumes again with the romance that should have surfaced between talented Jodie Foster (who doesn't do romance very well) and a smoldering Chow Yun Fat. That it failed to do so was perhaps due to Tennant's ability to capture the visuals needed for such a film, while failing at finding the emotional depth and chemistry between characters that makes a romantic film succeed.
Script-wise, Tennant doesn't have much to work with - country girl goes to the city and is a big success, finds a handsome and rich man to marry, then has to go back to the country to shake loose of her roots, notably another love. Cast-wise, he was given the moon. As Melanie, Reese Witherspoon succeeds at the part of her role that has her a successful designer in the big apple, the shining light of Andrew's (Patrick Dempsey's) future and the bane of his politician mother's (Candice Bergen's) aspirations for her boy. She's less believable as the original Alabama girl - gone home to put an end to a secret marriage to Jake Perry (Josh Lucas), the schism she's planned doesn't go as planned, and she starts to remember what her Alabama life and love were all about. A triangle, with Reese in the middle, ought to be every director's dream. It doesn't quite play out that way. Reese is beautiful, but her character has little of the ditzyness and sweetness that might have made her more believable as an Alabama girl. Both Dempsey and Lucas are believable, but have little material with which to help the viewer decide who to root for! Bergen's character is far too sarcastic, and supporting roles from film gems Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward and Jean Smart, intelligent actors all, turn into bit parts instead of contributing to the feeling of the film, and the reasons for Melanie to make the decision she finally reaches. An attractive film that will continue the elevation of the the career of the delightful Reese, but one that could have been far better in the hands of a better director. Worth a watch, but you may want to wait for video.
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Summary: This Movie Is Horrible!
Review: This movie is a ...let-down. Its bits and pieces taken from other movies. ... it was pretty obvious whom Melanie would end up with. The whole movie dragged on, and on. My friend had been dying to see this movie, and I had already seen it. Of course I didn`t want to see it again! But, you can guess where I ended up. WITH A TICKET TO "SWEET HOME ALABAMA". Please, I`m trying to save a few dollars, don`t see this movie! You`ll regret it!
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