Sweet Home Alabama

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Summary: The best chick flick in forever!
Review: I really loved this movie. Reese Witherspoon is a terrific actress. She plays her character so well that you can actually feel what she is going through. This is the best chick flick I have seen in a long time. Go see it!

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Summary: Chick Flick, but kinda funny
Review: I just saw this last night, and it was definately a girl's movie, but it had its funny moments. The movie followed the character of Melanie, Reese Witherspoon, who worked as a fashion designer and just got engaged. However, she has to go to Alabama to get her old husband to sign divorce papers. This is not as easy of a task as she had hoped, and she ends up staying in Alabama a lot longer than se thought. I laughed on a couple parts, but I thought it was a little predictable like any ofther chick movie.

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Summary: It's no 'Legally Blonde', but it's good for a few laughs...
Review: Once again, Reese Witherspoon does a convincing job in a romantic comedy. She also steps away from the not-so-perfect girl role nicely. In addition, Candice Bergen plays her typecasted role as the bitchy step-mom to be (or not to be??) to perfection. Weaker performances are by the husband and finace, and most importantly, the script. The writing is not nearly as witty as 'Legally Blonde', though it does have it's moments. If you miss it in the theaters, don't beat yourself up over it. It is better served in the rental isles.

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Summary: Reese Witherspoon is 'Sweet' in 'Alabama'
Review: Witherspoon gives another strong, leading performance that proves she can make just about any movie look good. She stars as Melanie, a New York fashion designer whose dream is about come true. She's proposed to by New York's most successful and eligable bachelor, who also happens to be the mayor's son. Before she can say for sure, she quickly travels back home to country-side Alabama, to try and get a divorce out of her high-school sweetheart Jake (Josh Lucas). The film was better than I expected. It was pretty funny and heartwarming, while Reese gives a sweet performance in SWEET HOME ALABAMA. It's kind of a chick-flick, but proved high for a comedy on my standards. If you're in the mood for something light and funny, sweet and entertaining, "Alabama" is worth seeing.

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Summary: Amazing/Superb!
Review: Reese Witherspoon is great! Especially at comedies. By watching the trailer only, I knew it was going to be a BLAST!!
You should watch it!! Funny,romantic and for the fashion people as well!
Don't miss it!

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Summary: Where the skies are so blue...
Review: This movie shows you that no matter how far you go, you can never forget your roots.

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Summary: Your typical romantic comedy with a North vs. South twist
Review: Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon) is the hottest new designer in New York, newly engaged to the hottest bachelor in town - the mayor's son. There's only one thing wrong with Melanie's life - she's actually Melanie Smooter, born & raised in a small & ppor Alabama town, where she married her high school sweetheart she still hadn't divorced.

Well, this being a North Vs. South comedy, we get the worst kind of stereotypes on both ends - most of the NY people are just plain weird, and the southerners all live in shabby homes & fry anything in sight.

On the other hand, the performances were very good - not only from the 3 major players, but especially from the supporting cast.

The director's commentary on the movie, & the wxended scenes (also with optional commentary by the director) were very enjoyable.

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Summary: Below average rom com
Review: I was fairly enjoying this movie, with the southern accents, and it was reminding me a bit of Hope Floats. Until about half an hour before the end, when I started flicking through a magazine I was that bored. The finale drags out way more than it ever should have been. You know what the ending's going to be, you just wish it would hurry up & get there!

Apart from that, the actual song "Sweet Home Alabama" is well, and overly, used during this movie. Reese Witherspoon's hair is SOOOOOOO much better in this, than that stiff, godawful wig she insisted on wearing during both Legally Blondes, and it really suits her. And imagine having a mother-in-law like Candice Bergen, playing a similar character to the one she played in Miss Congeniality.

When Melanie is chasing Andrew through the crowd of people watching the reenactment, she trips over the dolly track. The first movie to be allowed to shoot in New York after the 11 September 2001 attacks.

Charlize Theron was originally cast as Melanie Carmichael, but due to the actor's strike, she jumped to a ready-to-go movie Trapped. Reese was cast the same weekend that Legally Blonde opened.

An entire character (along with a subplot about her) was deleted from the film, when test audiences consistently misunderstood her relationship with Andrew. Erin Vanderbilt (played by Katharine Towne) survives in the finished movie only in a newspaper wedding announcement shown to Melanie during the closing credits.

The ending of the movie was re-written and re-shot after test audiences found the original version to be horrifying rather than funny. In the original ending Melanie and Jake are struck by lightning as they're kissing on the beach (bringing the story full-circle, as it originally started off with a very young Jake and Melanie kissing before struck by lightning). Later we see Jake carrying an apparently dead Melanie into the tent where the "reception" is taking place. As everyone gasps in shock and dismay, Jake says "Melanie Charmichael is dead," pauses several seconds for effect, then says "long live Felony Melanie," at which point Melanie pops up to the assembled crowd's delight and relief. (Watch out for a young Dakota Fanning as the young Melanie - is it just me or is this girl in everything at the moment? If she doesn't be careful, she's going to be a burnt out recluse by the time she's a teen, like some other child stars.)

This is an OK movie. The runup to the ending pretty much ruins the rest of the movie, so go and make yourself a cup of tea, put the cat out, and do some dishes while this bit is on. Believe me, you'll know the section I'm talking about! And the original ending is actually surprisingly good.

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Summary: okay passtime....
Review: ...if you are really bored. It has a couple of good sountrack scores, but little more. Sure Reese Witherspoon is a good actress and she is sweet enough, but this movie is so boring and has cliches as far as the eye can see, so many infact that sometimes it just gets a bit humiliating...Reese, with her wonderful acting abilities can't even save it... i wouldn't really recomend this if someone was to ask me to recomend something fun or good.... it's prob okay if you are bored out of your mind and have Nothing and i do mean NOTHING else to do... i gave it 2 stars cause the acting is not too bad, the cast does an okay job, but the plot is... well it's not very good. stear clear if you don't like those cutsie, clihé movies. cause even though it may look tempting, it's one of the worst cutsi cliché movies i've ever seen.

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Summary: Yeah
Review: I thought this was a good enough romantic comedy to sit through but much of the time I was rolling my eyes. This is a movie clearly with an anti-liberal anti-Democratic agenda. You have this evil city girl go back to her Mayberry home town and become born again as a sweet country hick. Her soon to be mother in-law is the Democratic mayor of New York who is a bigot against poor people even though she says she isn't. There's a gay guy in the hick town and he's automatically accepted and welcomed among his Republican buddies. You have two studs, one New Yorker, one hick. The New Yorker is a bland bore. The hick is an out-going glass maker who the girl ultimately ends up with because she kissed him first when she was five. And I like how the girl is able to punch the mayor of New York and not be arrested at the end.