You've Got Mail

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Summary: When Tom meets Meg......
Review: You raise your hope when "You've Got Mail" is based on the success of "Sleepless Sky in Seattle" by the same director. Unfortunately, the formula won't produce the same twice....even you got the same Tom Hanks and the same Meg Ryan.

The story is fun, albeit shallow at times. The plot is not put forward convincingly enough---the rich multi-millionnaire, owner of chain bookstore meets a burgeoise petite shop owner, falls in love just because they, so happens, meet in the cyberspace too. Eventually, they find that they do not love the one they already had, but love the one who is a business rivalry.

Well, some would buy the story but some would not. With hindsight, the internet may not have passed the high time at the time the film is released in 1998. The email interface in the film can even be said as "unreal" and kiddy.

The story did not turn out to be as spakling as expected. But if you want just 2 hours of relaxation with slight humour, this might be for you. Otherwise, there is still a lot of choices to choose from.

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Summary: Heartwarming Romantic Comedy
Review: A wonderful film to reunite Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Also joining them is the wonderful director Nora Ephron. This film is witty and charming. 'You've Got Mail' will bring a smile to your face, as well as make your heart flutter. A brilliantly funny story line just adds to the fabulous acting in this film. Tom Hanks plays Joe Fox, who is the son of a major book chain owner ("Fox Books"). Meg Ryan (Kathleen Kelly) is also in the book business, she owns a quaint little children's book store called "Shop Around the Corner." They are of course business rivals. However the main plot is even more amusing, because it really hits home. Since this modern age of computers brings romance. Kathleen and Joe are to neither of their knowlege are e-mail pals. Can this romance last? See it for yourself and find out!

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Summary: A Believable Couple
Review: Although this is definately a movie you either Love or Hate, I think what makes it worth a "Look See" is how the two main Characters (Hanks & Ryan) somehow pull off a romance thats starts as a couple of people who meet online in a chat room, how they go through the steps of actually meeting and it's all very real, It's a pleasant comedy, not a fall down laughing comedy, but none the less a team that works well together.

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Summary: great movie
Review: I could really relate to the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks characters in this movie because I experienced the same thing a few years ago(a date with someone from the Internet) and I was very glad that I went. I am pretty sure that both Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) and Kathleen (Meg Ryans) experienced the same nervousness that I had. This movie is the perfect example of an actual Internet romance that did not go wrong. It puts Internet dating into a different perspective.

I almost cried when he "did not show up" for their date and her store closed down.

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Summary: YOUR BEST MOVIE EVER!
Review: You've Got Mail delivers all the wit, charm and warmth you'd expect from a reunion of the stars (Hanks, Ryan) and director (Ephron) of Sleepless In Seattle. Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton and more talented co-stars add perfect support to this valentine to modern - to modem - romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous email cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware they are combative business rivals. You've got rare Hollywood magic when You've Got Mail.

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Summary: Delightful, but drop the soundtrack
Review: I can appreciate most of the negative criticism toward this movie, but I choose to disagree with almost all of it. I found the movie just pleasant enough not to take too seriously; Ryan and Hanks have great chemistry; and I'm a sucker for New York location movies. My favorite parts were Hanks' riff on The Godfather and the look on his face when Ryan told him he was nothing more than a suit. (At that moment, I became aware of how far Hanks has come as an actor, how much more depth he gave to his performance than Ryan could give hers. As one critic said when it was first released, look at the facial expressions on each of them when they're typing -- you can see how effortlessly Hanks conveys his thoughts, whereas Ryan mugs as if her monitor were a vaudeville audience.)

My biggest complaint--and I had the same complaing about Sleepless in Seattle, but to a lesser degree--is that Ephron relies too much on familiar songs to trigger emotions the story itself should be supplying. And since the story does supply them, the music is really unnecessary. She all but sabotaged the entire project for me when the finale was suddenly disrupted by "Over the Rainbow."

Still, I do enjoy this one; it's one of those imperfect movies that's nevertheless watchable anytime, anywhere.

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Summary: A three hour ad for AOL and Starbucks
Review: I've seen this movie twice: once on a plane without the headphones, and once at home on our VCR. You've Got Mail is passable as a silent film. If you look up from your New Yorker magazine from time to time, it can be quite pleasant visually.

As a regular film with sound, though, it is a stinker, and should be carefully scooped up, placed in a plastic bag, and discarded. It was unpalatably cynical, even to this cynical reviewer. It was dated, it shamelessly promoted brand names (probably for remuneration), and the plot was... hey, wait, I'm wasting my time.

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Summary: A GREAT MOVIE
Review: I LOVED THIS MOVIE!! I HAVE SEE IT ABOUT A MILLION TIMES AND YET WHEN I GET BORED I STILL PLOP IT IN TO THE DVD PLAYER. HANKS AND RYAN HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT DELIVERS AN EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT TWO PEOPLE THAT MEET ON-LINE AND BECOME FRIENDS, WHILE IN REAL LIFE THEY HATE EACH OTHER. RYAN RUNS A LITTLE BOOK STORE "JUST AROUND THE CORNER" AND HANKS IS PART OF A BIG BAD CHAIN/DISCOUNT "FOX BOOK STORE" (JUST LIKE BORDERS). HOWEVER NO MATTER HOW DIFFRENT THEY APPEAR TO BE THEY LEAD VERY SIMILAR LIVES AS FAR AS RELATIONSHIPS AND VALUES ARE CONCERNED. NEEDLESS TO SAY EVERYTHING WORKS OUT IN THE END. I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT THE FIRST TEN MINUTES AND THE LAST TWENTY ARE THE BEST, ALSO THE SOUND TRACK IS AMAZING.

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Summary: I am wondering how far the relationship will go.
Review: There is something bothering me about this movie. There is something a little unreal. Let me say that I enjoyed it up to and including the point that Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) found out that it was Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) who was "Shopgirl", his anonymous e-mail confidant. I thought that at that point, if he really loved her, he would have fought for what she truly valued, namely her bookstore. He would have taken on the dragon, his own corporation, in some fashion to help her achieve her dream of passing the bookstore to her child. But he doesn't do that. In fact he (or the movie) gets clumsy and a little too childish. Although I like Hanks, I don't like the character he plays in this movie. He is unable to tell her what he feels, but instead leads her along in an unrealistic, childish way. And how real is it that she never catches on to who he really is? Although I like Ryan, her character is a little too unbelievable. The movie says a lot more about the power of the modern-day corporation than it does about love. If her love for the Shop Around the Corner is real, as it was depicted, can she so easily give up how she really feels when she finally realizes who her secret pal is?

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Summary: Nora Ephron, give it a rest!
Review: Another cute little romantic comedy from Nora Ephron. It's so cute. Tom Hanks is so darn cute, doing that Regular-Everyday-Kind-of-Guy routine he does in every single film he's ever done. Meg Ryan is even cuter, doing that twinkle twinkle twinkle little gamine grin act of hers. The story is cute, too. There are two people who hate each other in real life, see, but they communicate by e-mail (that's a cute twist!) and fall in love with each other without ever seeing each other! Isn't that, for lack of a better word, cute? How do I keep getting suckered into seeing these movies? I must have been one of the very few people who saw "When Harry Met Sally" for the shallow, spiteful piece of yuppie garbage it was, and who thought that "Sleepless in Seattle" portrayed two of the most unlikeable people ever to attempt to jerk the viewer's heartstrings. Well, this is on par with both of those movies.