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Summary: A UNIQUE LOVE STORY
Review: I enjoyed this movie a lot. It's a great love story, and it's different from most of them. It has a great story to it, if only life was really like that. Letting the hands of fate determine who you are going to be with and who your love will be. John Cusack did a great job as usual. I loved Jeremy Piven as the part of his best friend, he is hilarious! Not a sappy moment in the whole movie. The ending was good, but predictable, I mean of course they're going to get together, this is a romantic movie we are talking about here. This movie is full of parts that make you go "They're so close!" Loved it!
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Summary: Do you really want someone who will do THIS to you?
Review: I can't believe people, especially women, like this movie. Who would want someone who dumps his bride on his wedding day? Who would want someone who doesn't have respect for his bride and family? I can't believe this man would pine away for some dingbat who doesn't have the emotional maturity to decide to be with him at the BEGINNING, instead relying on elementary school tactics to decide for her? What a piece of dreck.
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Summary: predictable and entertaining
Review: "Serendipity" is that kind of romantic comedy you know for sure how it is going to end since the very first scene. Jonathan and Sara meet in a department store a few days before christmas. Both are engaged and believed they would stay together if that was their destiny. So, Jonathan writes his phone number on a $5 dollar bill and sarah hers on an old book she sells. If these objects came back to them unexpectedly, they were meant to be a couple.The soundtrack is good and you can see lots of NY sights in this movie. As always, John Cusak is great.I liked the movie, but I was a little disapointed with it, because it is too predictable. It's not boring, but entertaining, due to the coincidences uniting the main characters. The extra material could be better, with cast interviews and other making off stuffs. Despite my comments, I recommend you watch this movie in a sunday afternoon, just for fun.
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Summary: The bad script makes the movie unenjoyable.
Review: "Serendipity" could have been a good movie. Insted it was a big let down. I thought that movie was well stupid. The stroy line and plot are okay. With the cast the movie had it sould have been really goo (I'm not saying the acting wasn't good - it was).
It's just the script is just so badily written that makes the movie unenjoayble. They wrote a pretty much unfunny movie, only laughed a few times. The end was perdicatble. I knew had it was going to end for the tv spot. Well that was a disapointment. The DVD has extras but they are not good. Commentray is boring.
"Starz on the Set of Serendipity" wasn't okay it lasted to long (almost 20:00). The Deleted Scenes (nine) [stank]. I can see why they were cut. And most of them were alternate or extened. Only two were deleted this last almost 16:00. Stroybody-To-Fianl Scene-Comparesion was pretty good and it's last not even a minute. The trailer was okay it last two & 1/2 mintues. The soundtrack spot wasn't good. The "Bounce" & "Bridget Jones's Diary" sneek-peeks were good and came out to almost 4 mintues. There was also a dumb sneek peek "About Adam" lasted almost 2 mintues. Plus a Director's Diary(in text) it was boring. So this movie & DVD are a let down. I recomend only when every thing elese that you wan't to see is out!
4/10
-RuffRyders20013
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is an enticing movie of how fate brought 2 people back together again. I personally loved it, but then again i like frogs and snakes and i luv worms 2, which does gross sum people out. this movie is really good, but there r sum people who wouldn't like it, i guess.
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Summary: New New Age romantic flick
Review: Serendipity (2001), directed by
Peter Chelsom With John Cusack and Kate Beckingsale No exactly a silly movie, or rather, a silly movie worth watching, but if you missed it you didn't miss much. Let's put it this way: it was 91 nearly enjoyable minutes. It's the story of two young people who meet at a Christmas gift shop (on Christmas Eve), and pretend they are married to a customer who wants to buy the same gift they want. After that--call it fate--they meet accidentally several times throughout the evening but then get separated for saver years--can you believe that? When the story resumes its thread, they are in process of planning their own weddings with different persons, but we know this will never happens, because serendipity (whatever that weird word means) will bring them back together again, which it does. That's actually it. What makes the movie watchable is splendid photography, inventive mise-en-scene, camera movement, clever montages, good music (soundtrack), and especially the personalities of these two engaging young actors. Especially Beckinsale, who played Emma, in one of Jane Austen's adaptations, and also was in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (playing Hero, and very well). The idea here, admittedly too New-Age-ish, is that the stars, and the signs, and the what-not, can bring people together, somehow, if they are destined to be. Coincidences play a role, and, in this case, a five-dollar note is the clue that reveals the address of one of the partners after a lapse of several years. Of course, the odds against a note going back to the persons who wrote something on it are astronomical, but in Hollywood improbability of plot is part of the game, as long as everything is wrapped up neatly in the end. Good faces to look at, good sound, no violence, no foul language, no sex (practically), and you have almost all the ingredients of a nice romantic comedy. These days, that's probably the only thing that's left. All the other genres a glutted with obligatory gore and nudity--and the the f... word. Not much choice. Advice: go back and re-watch the classics.
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Summary: Disappointing Romantic Comedy
Review: I was highly disappointed by this sappy romantic comedy. My main problem with it is that it's predictable and quite unrealistic. I know, I know... you're saying "but that's the point!", but c'mon, there needs to be a drop of reality in there somewhere. On the other hand, if you're looking for a "feel good" movie to see with a loved one, this may just fit the bill. One other problem I had with this was again, dealing with reality. The NYT's office is located on W 43rd St, not 42nd St, and in some points, it was clear that it was being filmed in Toronto, and not NYC.
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Summary: Very sweet romantic movie
Review: I thought this movie was very sweet and enjoyable.
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Summary: best of its genre
Review: this was such a sweet romance movie. its got the style and substance to pull it off. it begins at bloomingdales with the main charectors fighting over gloves. the girl ends up getting them and then takes the guy out for coffee. they go skating and she leaves her number with him. now 10 yeears later both engaged to different people. sara decides to go find johnathon. both of them fall in love again and it becomes very sweet. the only thing was the end. they didnt get married even though both weddings got called off. see this movie if your depressed.
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Summary: Sweet but slight romance
Review: Serendipity means accidentally finding something fortunate when you aren't looking for it. In this movie, what Jonathan and Sarah [John Cusack and Kate Beckinsdale] find is each other. They meet in a department store and spend a magical New York evening together. She, thinking their encounter is too good to be true, decides to tempt fate. She has him write his phone number on a five dollar bill, which she promptly turns around and spends. Then she writes her address inside a book that she sells the next day. The couple parts, leaving whether or not they will meet again to destiny. Flash forward a few years. Each has found someone they plan to marry, but the memory of that chance encounter haunts them. Did they willfully let their one chance for Great Romance pass them by? Does Fate believe in second chances? This is a sweet film, which suffers a bit by being almost too light and airy. It presents a very stylized and whimsical view of love and romance. Those who like their movies with a lot of sugar should be charmed. Others, of course, may find themselves gagging over this cinematic dessert.
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