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Summary: Witherspoon shines in formula comedy
Review: 'Sweet Home Alabama' is an innocuous comedy. It's so predictable that even the movie's tagline ' 'Sometimes what you are looking for is right where you left it.' ' gives the plot away. Still, there is the comfortably predictable and the annoyingly predictable, and this one is in the comfortable category. Much of the credit belongs to its star, Reese Witherspoon. Like Julia Roberts [and many years ago, the young Katherine Hepburn], she has finely-honed comedic timing and isn't afraid to be laughably obnoxious when need be. Her flaws are almost as endearing as her charms. When this movie was released theatrically, some critics noted that her character is sometimes a little bitchy and cruel. I agree, but I think that's how it should be. Her Melanie is no Pollyanna. She's a smart, willful, self-possessed young woman. The story begins in New York, where Melanie is living the high life. She's a fashion designer whose first big collection is being shown. She's also dating Andrew [Patrick Dempsey], whose mom [Candice Bergan] happens to be Mayor of New York. One night he proposes to her in Tiffany's, which he has rented for the occasion. There's just one problem: Melanie is still married to Jake [Josh Lucas], who has refused for several years to sign their divorce papers. She is forced to return to her small hometown in Alabama to try to make Jake see reason. Once there, she discovers that some of the values and people she left behind have more meaning than she once thought they did. The depictions of both New York and Alabama life are stereotypical, but good-naturedly so. The point of a movie like this is to entertain, not to educate. 'Sweet Home Alabama' does this reasonably well, although, without a star like Witherspoon and such a strong supporting cast, it would have been a disaster because its done-a-hundred-times- before plot and relatively weak writing would have been glaringly apparent.
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Summary: Sweet Reese Witherspoon !
Review: A light romatic comedy. Story line is a bit weak and can I say of old fashion. Reese Witherspoon is trying hard in the movie but a lot more could be improved. I prefer her Legally Blonde instead. She could be a rising star in Hollywood if a few more good movies are done.
Good to watch when you want to spend a quiet, pleasant weekend. I would give an overall B- Rating.
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Summary: Sweet&Predictable
Review: It was nice and pleasant. While it's has moments. Mostly the movie was predictable. If like Reese Witherspoon you'll love this movie
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Summary: Predictable but Charming
Review: As far as Romantic Comedies go, Sweet Home Alabama is a perfect one. It's just like any other romantic comedy. Very formulaic and predictable with sterotypical characters. The only major difference in this one is that it has the ever charming and likeable Reese Witherspoon. Where Reese not in this, it would have been another cheesy chick flick, but Reese gives such a likeable performace you can't help but love her. The movie has some cute scenes and besides Reese, we get likebale performances from Josh Lucas, Ethan Embry, and Patrick Dempsey. We even get one unlikable character played by Candice Bergen, who is so good at being the controlling, bitchy mother/politician that this is the type of roles she should play for the rest of her career. Midway through the film, you all will know what's going to happen, but that's ok. Reese and Co. make it worth it, and the ending is very sweet.
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Summary: Alabama? Try again.
Review: Well, I'm going to try and go a different route than the first 100 reviews of this movie. I got this movie hoping to see something familiar in my HOME STATE.....and it got off to a good beginning with Mel travelling through Greenville to get to Pigeon Creek. That's correct. But that was about it. The rest was pretty alien to me. If you wanted to see something that portrays Alabama in a better light, I'd suggest "To Kill A Mockingbird" before I would this movie. Very stereotypical. The southern folks in this talk so slow...and that's not us. Honestly, I don't know a lot of folks with such a southern draw in their speech under the age of 30 here. And the ones that do have it, don't talk like they do in this movie. Reese sounds like she is recycling dialogue from "Freeway". We have accent, not mental retardation. The scenery- was o.k., but to be a small southern town and not see one cow or chicken, is misleading. Or a cotten gin. And, you can't get to a beach of any kind from Greenville without a good drive. The only beach in Alabama is Mobile. But, this is fiction, I guess. My biggest problem with the movie was - if they were going to stereotype us - at least do it in a way we'd expect, and do more of it. I just found this movie too lacking to give it a higher star review. It didn't feel very truthful, and it didn't use enough stereotype to get in enough laughs. The good things: Reese is a good actress. Murphy Brown with a new name comes out. It's a good date movie. If you're like me, you'll stick to looking for home in non-fiction.
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Summary: Sweet & Charming
Review: This is a great movie. It really is one of the best romantic comedies in a while. Reese Witherspoon gives a great performance as Melanie Carmichael, an Alabama-raised girl who goes to New York and becomes a successful Fashion designer. When her boyfriend-the mayor's son-asks her to marry him, she goes back to Alabama to tie up some loose ends. There are some very funny and charming scenes as Melanie visits the town she grew up in. A funny, charming, sweet Romantic tale. Y'all will love it :-)
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Summary: A Sweet Film
Review: Who doesn't like Reese Witherspoon? She shines in anything she's in, because she seems like such a sweet, down-to-earth kind of gal. With that said, it is hard to say anything too bad about one of her movies. Like 'Legally Blonde', 'Sweet Home Alabama' is nothing special - a romantic comedy whose romance is fairly predictable, and whose comedy is smile-inducing at best, but never really laugh-out-loud funny. However, that does not mean it is a bad movie. In fact, it is quite charming. Reese plays Melanie Carmichael, an up-and-coming fashion designer who has just been given the marriage purposal of a lifetime by her boyfriend, who is the son of the Mayor of New York City, played by Candice Bergen. In order to marry him, though, she must travel home to Alabama to ask her husband Jake, whom she left 7 years ago, for a divorce. He, of course, keeps putting off signing the divorce papers because we can all see he is still in love with her. Is she still in love with him? Or does she want to leave her past in the past, and move on to bigger and better things? What follows is your average romance story, with no twists or turns, but you're interested in seeing how exactly everything will turn out and when. The performances are good - newcomer Josh Lucas is great as Jake, and I'm sure we will be seeing a lot of him in the future. Reese delivers a great performance, as usual, although I don't think her performance here is as good as her performance in 'Legally Blonde'. And the entire supporting cast does a fine job as well (Candice Bergen is always great at playing snobby, cranky characters). All in all it's a fun film, and the romance, though a tad unoriginal, does not disappoint. And I would also like to say how happy I was that they didn't make Melanie's fiance a bad guy. In most love-triangle movies ('The Wedding Singer' comes to mind), the filmmakers make the fiance out to be a cheating jerk, and we have to wait for her to realize it and choose the right guy. Here in 'Alabama', she has a real decision to make, and it's not an easy one! (Hmm...rich guy who lets me pick out any engagement ring I want at Tiffany's, or my first love...?) So it gets a point there for not following the average romantic comedy formula. If you're looking for something light, and something a little romantic (especially for Valentine's Day) see this movie if you haven't already. And girls, make your boyfriends watch the proposal scene for pointers!
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Summary: Reese gets down home and dirty
Review: Reese Witherspoon is adorable as Melanie Carmicheal. Seet Home Alabama is one of the best romantic comedies since My Best Friends Wedding. Melanie Carmichael is an down home sweetheart turned high society New York fashion Designer. When the Mayors son (played by Patrick Dempsey) asks her to marry him, she must return to her hometown of Pigeon Creek to divorce her high school sweetheart husband. Upon returning home, she begins to realize how much she misses the folks she left behind including the husband who never made anything of himself (Played by the sexy Josh Lucas). She spends so much time trying to get Jake (the ex) to sign his divorce papers, that she doesn't see what is right in front of her, the love of her life. The sweet comedy and romantic notions in this film will no doubt make it a classic, it is already a hit for Reese and will be for you as well. Rent it and see for yourself just how Sweet Home can be.
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Summary: SoO cUTe!!
Review: Awe this movie was the best.. I saw it first in theatres and now I own it.. I cried in it though when they talked about a dog dying, but hey, it was still a really cute funny movie!
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Summary: Sweet Home Stereotype.
Review: The Amazon.com reviewer calls "Sweet Home Alabama" a cute, inoffensive movie, which it largely is. Reese Witherspoon is cute. The movie is slight. The plot would never actually happen in a million years, though. I mean, if you were a famous fashion designer like Melanie, would you go back to Alabama? How on Earth would you live and work? Though this movie was made in Georgia, Melanie's hometown in the film is not like any Southern town I've ever been in my life. And I grew up in the South. Contrary to what people must think, we don't have Coon Dog Cemeteries. We don't spend our days in a beer haze, goin' fishin'. The richest family in town doesn't own a plantation house, and the rest of us don't live out of double-wide trailers. We're not all dancing to country music, nor are there popular "honky tonks" nearby. Give me a break, Hollywood. But until you do, keep the charming Reese Witherspoon performances coming.
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