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Summary: consistently good, well written and clips right along
Review: i finally bought this after i realized i had rented it enough to have purchased three copies. i dont buy very many movies but this one is a permanent keeper. kevin kline is supurb, he made me like his badboy character even though i didnt want to. meg ryan is pretty good, though she thinks she is much more adorable than she is, but most of the time she manages to forget about being cute and actually acts. the filming and editing are wonderful, and i love it that even thieves have dreams and aspirations.i especially liked Luc's old police friend trying to repay an old debt... where would the picture be with out him?
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Summary: DVD lacks features, film has great charm
Review: Leonard Maltin is flat-out wrong to call this a "charmless contrivance". Kline and Ryan have appeal to spare, easily managing to conjure up chemistry against the backdrop of sumptuous France. Though the setup may seem implausible to the untraveled, it's actually not all that farfetched. Coincidence is more obvious when you're traveling, if only because you don't have the blandness of ordinary living to block your sight. FRENCH KISS merely highlights the possibilities of such coincidence. It certainly doesn't wallow in "contrivance" any more than, say, CASABLANCA, whose entire storyline depends upon the unlikeliness of a drifter becoming a bar owner in a backwater part of the world so that his former lover (in town for a refugee convention) could happen to get thirsty. I'm not saying FRENCH KISS is as good as CASABLANCA, of course--merely that coincidence is indeed possible, and that at least the coincidences here are of a smaller order. If anything's wrong with the movie it's that it follows Ryan's standard 90's comedy formula. Ryan starts with a fiancee who's as likely to marry her as a security guard is to survive an episode of STAR TREK. She eventually dumps him, ostensibly so she can be on her own and figure herself out, but really so that she can make it with the guy who gets top billing. Some confusion ensues about the guy's identity and/or innate value, and, after that's all sorted out, the credits roll. It's not a bad formula. It really IS engaging and likeable. But it's still a formula. FRENCH KISS is no different, really, from SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE or YOU'VE GOT MAIL. Except...there's Kevin Kline. For my money, Kline, or at least his character, is a much better foil for Ryan than Tom Hanks. He comes much closer to being the kind of complicated, combative, difficult man that Billy Crystal gave us in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. There might be cause to take exception to his accent, as has been pointed out elsewhere, but he's a more interesting character than Ryan has seen lately in a light comedy. [DVD Notes: This DVD is sadly inadequate. There's really nothing on the thing aside from the movie and trailers. It clearly wouldn't have been so difficult to have assembled at least an audio commentary.]
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Summary: A clever and witty movie that will withstand time
Review: Meg Ryan is astounding! My friends and I hold French Kiss Parties and we recite the movie word by word. The jokes remain funny, and the actions surprising everytime! A must see
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Summary: Kitten-cute but pretty silly
Review: Our adorable heroine, Meg Ryan actually engages in some slapstick humor in this rather amusing little romantic comedy. She plays the ditzy young wife of a no-good two-timer who runs off to France with a leggy supermodel. So Meg decides to tail them - but too bad she's so scared of airplanes! And then - after lounging luxuriously in fancy hotels and some sightseeing in the fabulous Paris (she keeps missing the city's greatest landmark of all), our dear blonde bombshell falls for some ratty-looking wino who looks just like a pervert or something and humiliates herself in public when her angelic young face gets all smeared with some pastries from the dessert cart. But the most ridiculous of all is the very ending that left me very bewildered and puzzled about the very content of that girl's head. Good thing I don't really believe in fairy tales anyway!
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Summary: The #1 Chick Flick Pick
Review: Who could not laugh at the way Meg Ryan scrunches up her nose. Or the way Kevin Kline misconstrues the meaning in a high five. French Kiss is at the top of my list for romantic comedys. It is the one movie i can watch over and over again, and still not tire of the well acted and personable characters, cute plot and overall way it makes me smile. I highly recomend this light and yummy romance.
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Summary: Ignore the Critics, Ask the Fans
Review: Despite the badmouthing this film receives from various "professional" critics, one would do well to ask a Meg Ryan or a Kevin Kline fan what THEY thought of the movie. As a fan of both actors, let me say this is one of my favorite films (as in I've watched it over 20 times). I liked the comedy, the development of characters, the story, Meg's facial expressions, Kevin's French accent... You name it, I thought it all added up to an enjoyable movie!
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Summary: Magnifique
Review: Wonderful romantic comedy. A must see for you people who enjoy a good love story with a few laughs thrown in. When Kate (Meg Ryan) receives a call from her fiance in France, he tells her he's met another woman and that they're over. Determined not to lose the 'love of her life' she sets off for Paris to win him back. On the flight over she meets Luc (Kevin Kline) who she takes an instant dislike to. Luc is a thief who uses her to get his stolen grapevine and necklace through customs then after numerous incidents decides to help her win back her man. They slowly fall in love and when Kate finally has the chance to get her fiance back she doesn't take it. The thing that's so great about this film is that you really get the feeling that they ARE falling in love. The two leads are excellent and the chemistry between them is fantastic.
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Summary: Chick Flick
Review: Ok, it ain't art and Kevin Kline ain't French and the plot is inane. But there's something addictive about this movie. Kevin Kline is soooooo sexy; Meg Ryan is luminous. The more I watch this movie the more I want to watch it. I have never bought a video before (except for my kids), but I'm buying this one. My advice is not to watch this with your husband or boyfriend. Grab one of your girl friends, pop some corn, and enjoy.
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Summary: Better than the professional reviews lead you to believe
Review: When I first watched this film (four times ago), I liked the interaction between my favorite actress Meg and Kevin Kline, even though Kevin is no Tom Hanks. Later, when I read the professional reviews and after having watched You've got Mail countless times, I thought maybe I was overrating the movie in my head. But then I saw it again and still liked the vast majority of scenes: Meg's call to the US, her scene with the Canadian Counsel (this is where I tell you your application is rejected?), her surprising us with the necklace on her neck (where was she hiding it so long?), Kevin's fight with his brother, etc. were all clever. I say sit back and have a glass of wine and enjoy this film.
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Summary: Where's Depardieu when you need him?
Review: Meg Ryan plays her standard role as marvelously as ever and singlehandedly earns those 2 stars, with an honorable mention to Jean Reno as the French cop. Everything and everyone else totally lacks credibility -- plot, development, dialogue. Granted that Hollywood movies demand a suspension of disbelief, but this is ridiculous. What's more, to a person who does speak French, almost every scene in France is destroyed by the phony and fractured French of the supposedly native French characters (except Anbeh who performs creditably most of the time as Juliette, and of course the few truly French members of the cast).
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