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Summary: A Contrast in Values
Review: In addition to being entertaining, I enjoyed the contrast between Leopold's circa 1876 values and Kate's "money is more important than integrity" set of values. At a time when character and integrity are frequently poo-poo'd as irrelevant by Hollywood, this is a welcome breath of fresh air.
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Summary: FANTASTIC! HILARIOUS! ROMANTIC! WATCH THIS MOVIE NOW!
Review: I rented this movie, because my mom wanted to watch it and plus I think Hugh Jackman is a good actor, as is Meg Ryan, and I like romantic comedies, so it all went together. I didn't think it was going to be superbly hilarious and so so romantic. But the thing that will turn girls away (or women) from this movie is the time travel subplot that is played throughout the movie. But, it didn't interfere alot with the plot. It's just dealt with in the beginning and the end. Just watch this movie, if you like good humor, great acting, sappy romance, and lots of great filmmaking. Plus, if you want, look for the WTC towers, because this movie was made in NY before 9/11 so they might be in there, I didn't have time to check. MY SCORE OUT OF 10: 9.5!
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Summary: A Must See!!!
Review: I absolutely love this movie! I saw it 3 times in the theater, once before the changes were made to it. I am a huge fan of Meg Ryan and have been ever since I saw "Sleepless in Seattle". Hugh Jackman is quickly becoming one of my new favorite actors. Brad Whitford, whose work on NBC's "The West Wing" I adore beyond words was also great in this film. It is a great love story centered around this funny little premise, almost a fairy tale. I am also a hopeless romantic so I was destined to love it :)
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Summary: Im so sorry
Review: Im sorry to say But i saw this movie on my 13th birthday with a girlyfriend of mine and my Big sis and My mom. I was literally looking @ my clock every 5 minutes! It is so boring! Im sorry I didn't like it at all.
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Summary: Kate and Leopold
Review: This was one of the best romantic comedies that I've seen in a long. Ladies, if you're looking for a movie to curl up and stay at home with, well this is it. The movie is predictable in the sense that the boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, girl gets her man on the end. However, from the beginning to the end its a really good movie. I was not disappointed when I left the movie theater. I can hardly wait until its released on video on June 11.
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Summary: The best feel-good movie I've seen in a while.
Review: Sure it's hokey and trite but who cares with a cast that includes Hugh Jackman and a delightful scumbag in Bradley Whitfield? The plot is implausible and Meg Ryan is getting to be typecast in these movies but she does it so well that it really doesn't matter. Anyone who has ever read a romance novel will love this. It's one of those romantic comedies that you will want to watch over and over. Definitely one to own.
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Summary: RESERVING A SPACE IN MY VIDEO LIBRARY FOR THIS ONE!!
Review: Saw this film three times with three different people and loved it more with each viewing! Although a touch of sci-fi in its time travel, it was delightful and even believable. Meg Ryan has always been one of my favorites ("You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle") but I guess I'd have to say I liked her BEST in this one...a hairstyle that looks as though she created it with a mixmaster...one that only SHE can get away with! And Hugh Jackman ain't too hard to take either!!! This is a role that seems to be made for him. Oh! if I were only 40 years younger!! Yippy Skippy!!!
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Summary: Vaguely feel-good but implausable at more than one level.
Review: Time travel is such a far-fetched theme in hard-scientific terms, that I guess it's understandable that movies that employ it have a tendency to become less science-fiction oriented and more simply ad hoc in how time travel is achieved. Such is especially true when travel into the past is involved. According to science fast-froward time travel is theoretically as simple as just travelling very fast in space, but back-in-time travel is far more conjectural, proposed to be possibly achievable by things so extreme and esoteric as falling into rotating black holes. No scientific theory makes falling off the Brooklyn Bridge at the right moment a means of time travel. So, no surprise that time travel movies become less science fiction and more ad hoc fantasy-drama, from PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED to FREQUENCY. So we should scarcely object to this movie as scientifically implausible; it's in a genre scarcely attempting to significantly resemble hard science fiction. But what makes it really kind of flaky is that its feel-good human drama is sometimes almost as implausible as its time-travel method. In this generally rather likeable story, Kate is very much what some might call a "Today's Woman". She functions in twenty-first century culture with contemporary values and aspirations. Yet she learns that it is somehow her blessed destiny to travel back over a century to live instead in a time when women couldn't even vote, not to mention all the other inevitable culture-shock awaiting her there. Okay, nostalgia for the past is valid to a point; we could learn some positive things from the past. But completely trying to have it both ways is a bit too much. All the changes in gender roles we've been told were vital to justice over the past few decades cannot be both liberating of women from past bondage AND at the same time be part of a modern world that one can only flee from to the old days of all the "degradations" that modern demands would "liberate" women from. So nostalgia here gets stretched into outright fantasy, not even counting the fantasy of the method of time travel. A woman like Kate (or virtually any other American woman more mainstream than the Amish) would surely find 1870s life more hellish than blessed if suddenly transported back there. If you can suspend disbelief on all levels, this movie can be a low-key feel-good diversion...
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Summary: Kate and Leopold forever!
Review: Wow! I went into the theater expecting just another typical comedy-romance, but this tops the genre! Leopold is the suave, kind and chivalrous man lost in time that every girl dreams of! He is a dream brought to life, an ideal romance. Okay, so Meg Ryan as Kate becomes a bit annoying after a while with her excessive perky/cute self, but is an easily ignored price for the rest of the movie. Buy this movie!
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Summary: The Past Meets with the Present
Review: Kate and Leopold is a comic and romantic film that circles around the lives of two individuals from two different time zones. Kate McKay, portrayed by celebrated film leading lady, Meg Ryan, is a topnotch business executive in New York. As an achiever, she focuses on reaching the highest rank within the company she is working at sacrificing love. At a time when she is geared towards success, she meets a dashing debonaire from a past era. Leopold, played by up and coming Australian lead actors, Hugh Jackman. Leopold transcends to the present time through his accidental encounter with a man from the present who happens to be, Kate McKay's former boyfriend. After the complicated yet seemingly legitimate process of time travel, Kate and Leopold meets in New York. They hated each other considering the vast difference in their culture and upbringing. Imagine, a knight in shining armor from the 18th century in the same side of the world with a controlling woman of the new millenium. The ultimate clash of civilizations. The film succeeds in portraying love as the power of all powers. Time helps two hearts find the love they have been wanting for life. Love in turn becomes the reason for them to meet at the same time and place in life. It's a feel-good movie that makes one wish that its events are true and realistic. Ryan will charm you with her unbelievable presence behind the white screen. Jackman will entice you with his remarkable talent and melting smile. It's worth the money.
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