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Summary: Not great, but not everything has to be
Review: And that about sums up what I have to say about "Pret a Porter". Worst part: Julia Roberts (I wish the rest of America would get wise to her lack of talent). Best part: Seeing Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni reunite. Marcello was her old beau, and now they have a second chance at love, about 40 years late. I laughed out loud at their scenes, cursed the darkness that is Julia Roberts.Try on "Ready to Wear/Pret a Porter" and see how the fit suits you.
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Summary: Typical Altman!
Review: Anymore, when the name Robert Altman is raised, a bored lull enrapts the room--Pret-a-Porter is no exception. This time Altman takes the audience on a two-hour tour of the pretentiousness of the fashion industry. With no apparant plot, the all-star cast is reduced to small talk (a key element in any Altman film). The mediocre and sparsely placed comedic moments are not enough to keep the viewers attention for the duration of the film. The high point of the film came from Bassinger's deliberately bad southern accent as she narrates this tale of sick photographers, perverse fashion, and the effects alcohol has on two complete strangers.
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Summary: Not What I hoped for.
Review: I really had hoped this movie would be better. There really wasn't too much of a plot. There certainly are cute elements.
As always Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts were adorable. Otherwise
I can't really say a whole lot for the movie--Sorry:(
Rating:
Summary: It was OKAY...
Review: I really love everything that has to do with fashion, but this movie was somewhat disappointing. I thought the bit with the "editors" of Vogue, Elle, and Bazaar was funny and as usual Sophia Loren was stunning. However, Julia Roberts was horrible. Watch it, if you don't have anything better to do.
Rating: 
Summary: Ready to Wear
Review: I really thoought this review was very good.
Rating:
Summary: What A Mess
Review: I saw this movie at the show years ago when it first came out. I wanted to demand my money back. What a rip-off. What Leonard Maltin says in his review is right on the button. This movie has no plot, no momentum, and no point to any of this. Robert Altman is supposed to be this great director. But this movie looks like a college film school student made a very amateurish film and had no idea where to go with it. Its really bad.
Rating:
Summary: Awful. Truly awful.
Review: I saw this movie when it came out on video. I thought I would like it since I was into fashion magazines and knew a lot of the designers' and models' names. I thought, "A movie about fashion and modeling. Cool." Boy, was I wrong. Ready to Wear has got to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I saw no point to it at all. I walked out of the room several times while it was playing. I don't even think I let it reach the end before I stopped it. It was boring and pointless. IMHO. If you want to see a good movie about fashion and modeling, watch Funny Face with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.
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Summary: Not Classic Altman But Far From Awful
Review: Most critics harped on this movie's lack of "depth" when it originally came out. My question is, how would a comedy with "depth" about the fashion industry play? I'm sure it would be much more unwatchable than the witty display Altman puts on here. Yes, there's too many characters and yes, Altman glides over everything without much development but he directs with a sense a fun and keeps the whole thing smooth and amusing. He's much less judgmental about the fashion industry than a director in his seventies might be: in a movie fillled with star performers and designers, everyone is depicted and even photographed is a very democratic manner even if they're all made out to be slightly ridiculous. Only Sophia Loren is really given the "star" treatment in her appearances and even that is done mainly as parody (she begins the movie in a frumpy bathrobe and glasses-who else but Altman would have the nerve to commit such a breach? ) It's arguable that the movie is a little trite-but then so is the fashion industry. I think people were disappointed in this movie primarilybecause Altman didn't stage a fashion show, he only covers one. Altman does here what he's always done well: shown off the farcial elements of American social and political institutions. As for Leonard Maltin, I'm sure his mind is numb after a lifetime of overpraising movies much worse than this one.
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Summary: Not Classic Altman But Far From Awful
Review: Most critics harped on this movie's lack of "depth" when it originally came out. My question is, how would a comedy with "depth" about the fashion industry play? I'm sure it would be much more unwatchable than the witty display Altman puts on here. Yes, there's too many characters and yes, Altman glides over everything without much development but he directs with a sense a fun and keeps the whole thing smooth and amusing. He's much less judgmental about the fashion industry than a director in his seventies might be: in a movie fillled with star performers and designers, everyone is depicted and even photographed is a very democratic manner even if they're all made out to be slightly ridiculous. Only Sophia Loren is really given the "star" treatment in her appearances and even that is done mainly as parody (she begins the movie in a frumpy bathrobe and glasses-who else but Altman would have the nerve to commit such a breach? ) It's arguable that the movie is a little trite-but then so is the fashion industry. I think people were disappointed in this movie primarilybecause Altman didn't stage a fashion show, he only covers one. Altman does here what he's always done well: shown off the farcial elements of American social and political institutions. As for Leonard Maltin, I'm sure his mind is numb after a lifetime of overpraising movies much worse than this one.
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Summary: The only movie I ever walked out on
Review: My patience with films and filmmakers is high, regardless of length or pacing. I watched the five-hour version of "Fanny and Alexander" in one afternoon with considerable pleasure. Conversely, I've sat through incredible stinkers to the last frame, hoping for some worthwhile glimmer that never came. With a director as demonstrably talented as Robert Altman, it seems impossible that he could create a film sufficiently awful to send me running from the theater in mid-movie. But he did. "Ready to Wear" is unbearable. Painful. Unspeakable. There's nothing here except a colossal waste of talent. It's not bad in the right way to be unintentionally funny, and God knows the intentional "comedy" isn't funny. Stay far away from this cinematic torture.
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