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Summary: A Major New Star -- Hugh Jackman
Review: until I saw Jackman as LEOPOLD and the wheels started to turn. I haven't been this excited about a new star since Sean Connery. (Yes, I'm that old.)... Regarding KATE & LEOPOLD (and I speak as one who has loved Meg Ryan movies in the past, especially FRENCH KISS, YOU'VE GOT MAIL, and CITY OF ANGELS, which has a similar fantasy element about love overcoming obstacles and about making leaps of faith)I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. But she seems so sad (which fits her character)... KATE & LEOPOLD often reminds me of EVER AFTER --only it's a Duke instead of a Prince being forced into a loveless marriage, looking for a woman of intelligence and independence. The Prince finds her among the common people. The Duke finds Kate in the future. Like the characters Kate and Leopold, we are asked by this movie to suspend disbelief and to make a leap of faith. I find that I can. The haunting STING song UNTIL is a great bonus.
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Summary: Kate and Leopold is a great movie!
Review: Kate and Leopold is another movie that demonstrates that love has no barriers, especially 130 years! Kate, a modern woman, who is still having emotional unstabiltity from her ex-boyfriend who lives in the apartment above thinks that all men are pigs, and that true love really never exists. Leopold, Duke of Albany, is a man of the late 19th century. Trying to find a bride with a rich family, otherwise he loses his inheritance from his jerk of an uncle. By the way, he's British and his family lost their money. Leopold gets transported into the year 2001, and his world is turned upside down. He meets Kate, who is much different from the women he used to court. Leopold teaches Kate that chivalry still exists, and Kate teaches him the ways of the modern century. They fall in love, meanwhile Kate's ex-boyfriend(and Leopold's great-great-grandson), is in the hospital for a mishap. Leopold is transported back 1876, and Kate has no idea. Well, that's enough to intrigue to see this movie.
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Summary: The Most Romantic Movie Since PRETTY WOMAN"
Review: Excellent performances by both stars. It must have been quiet a big step for Hugh from "Wolverine" to "Leopold" and as for Meg, just another movie which didn't need much acting seeing that she plays her natural self......sweet, loving, funny, etc. I would suggest any of the Meg Ryan movies as everyone is worth watching. This movie is definitely for the romantic at heart!!
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Summary: Okay, but you never saw why Leopold was attracted to Kate
Review: A fan of both Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, I found this movie somewhat lacking. IT'S A REACH
It's premise that there are occassional holes in time that can be exploited, is a bit far fetched when it seems they are very particular and in an man-made location. But, then this movie is not a sci-fi.
With that aside it seems implausible that a man of the 1800s could find a business woman of the year 2002 a potential partner. Especially, when it was clear he emphasized manners she did not have, cooking which she did poorly and she so often treated him rudely even by 2002 standards. BOTH MEG RYAN AND HUGH JACKMAN ARE UNDER USED IN THIS MOVIE
With such potential for sparks, with Meg Ryan's quirky cuteness and Hugh Jackman's electric personality, this movie not once really had the two actors connect. With their professionalism, and capability, it was all really well acted but it had none of the potential I expected. THE CIRCUMSTANCES MANUFACTURED TO LEAVE LEOPOLD ALONE IN THE APARTMENT WAS ALL TOO ODD
Leopold winds up alone in an apartment in NY. Of course much comedy was wrought from him being out of time. However the circumstances that left him alone were all too far-fetched (albeit somewhat funny). This movie reached in too many directions. IN SUMMARY
It was a cute story, that emphasized the morals of the 1800s, as integrity and the relationships between men and women. It was cute and light, like an old Cary Grant movie, but not as well written. More time should have been spent on the details. Also, why Leopold was attracted to Kate should have been somehow demonstrated more.
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Summary: It's romatic without been boring
Review: It's very romantic, and funny, you wont get cloying, very sweet actually, hugh has a great performance, and meg its so good, so modern..... It's generally very good
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Summary: WATCH THE DIRECTOR'S CUT
Review: See other reviews for plot info. Take it from me, the director's cut on the DVD is far superior to the theatrical release. The latter had plot gaps and didn't explain why Kate was so bitter. Directors do know best! (Ironically, many of the cuts were made in deference to prescreening focus groups, and one of the major scenes cut out was about such a focus group and their perverse influence!)
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Have always been a Meg Ryan fan, but gave up on this one.
The film has a great beginning, but after a while, the feeling is that it is too light and cute -- I lost interest in the characters, and didn't even bother to see the film to the end. (And this, from a Meg Ryan fan!)
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Summary: On Anachronisms
Review: Leopold is so clever in correcting Kate's boss on "La Boheme's" being in Italian and not French, or that the lead character is Rodolfo and not Andre. (While we're at it, can we buy that a corporate bigwig living in New York can be that culturally illiterate as to need such correction? "La Boheme" is, after all, probably produced more than any other opera. I mean -- didn't the man even see "Moonstruck"?) Since Leopold is from 1876 and La Boheme was first produced in 1896, Leopold is not only clever, but clairvoyant. Or perhaps, while Kate was at work and Stuart was in the hospital, Leopold was viewing a Puccini Special on PBS? And wasn't it also clever of Leopold to refer to Kate's boss as "pond scum." Now's there's an 1876 expression definitely due for a revival!
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Summary: Superb Romantic Comedy !
Review: Ah! The casting is the thing that makes this delightful romantic comedy work so well! Meg Ryan is at the top of her comedic form as is relative newcomer Hugh Jackman in this tale of star-crossed lovers from different epochs falling deliciously head over heels for each other despite all the differences supposedly separating them. For anyone waxing nostalgic about the lost values and manners from the past, the series of situations and gags involving exactly those characteristics in a wistful recollection of how charming and wonderful such luxuries as manners can be. Alas, fellow travelers of the time continuum; we happen to live in a time almost totally bereft of any personal knowledge of the human comfort and shelter such social practices can bring to both ourselves and to others, of the ways in which a disciplined code of consideration of others and a corollary code of conduct act to smooth the social waters we must trudge through in our daily quest to make our livings, meaningfully interact with others, and find some semblance of meaning and purpose in so doing. Thus, Jackman's character acts to reaquaint Ryan's with the delicious luxury of time-honored cultural practices and dutiful manners, and she falls as much for the lost treasures of being treated with courtesy and consideration as for the man treating her with such unusual (for our time) deference. The script is lively and entertaining, and the building of the romance quite believable and engaging, as well. The use of the difference in expectations and the differences in each of the principal's world view for comedic effect is also a lot of fun, and the intelligence and wittiness of the dialogue is unusual, to say the least. This is a well acted and well-thought-out thought piece disguised as a romantic comedy, and it works very well indeed. Two thumbs way up for this one! Enjoy!
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Summary: Light and bright - engaging....
Review: Kate and Leopold is one of those adult fairy tales set in modern times. At least partially so! Director James Mangold chooses to focus not on the story of time travel, as discovered by a
nondescript New Yorker bachelor who travels through a "portal" (Liev Schreiber, apt and amiable), but rather on the romantic events of the Duke he brings back with him to the future. That Duke, Leopold, as played by Hugh Jackman, has traveled some 130 years in time, from late 19th century New York, where he lived as a titled British transplant, searching for love and wealth...and finding neither. Naturally, in the most serendipitous of ways, he meets Kate (Meg Ryan), a marketing research exec, fiercely career-oriented, but as vulnerable underneath as Meg Ryan was in "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail". Unfortunately, her hairdo leaves something to be desired, and her choice in clothing is mannish and severe, but Ryan's charm makes Jackman's crush believable. Your surprised that Tom Hanks has been supplanted by Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman? Nah...wasn't he a hairy super-hero in X-Men? You'd think he was playing against type until you see his performance here. He's marvelous. Believable, confident, playing this role as Ben Affleck never could, Jackman gets the largest round of applause for making this movie a commercial and DVD success. He's immersed himself in 19th century manners, etiquette and deportment, but is still vulnerable and kind. The movie plays for laughs somewhat, on his introduction to timeless Americana such as ketchup, Tater Tots, and scooping up the dog doo after you walk your monster dog in Manhattan. If the real market research experts are watching, Affleck, etal., may never win another romantic lead again! So, of course, there is the crisis, the separation, and eventually the film finds a way to end happily. Bradley Whitford of The West Wing is terrific as JJ, Kate's supercilious and vain boss, and I love Brecklin Meyer as Kate's brother...he's thick enough not to realize that Jackman isn't just acting his historical role, yet bright enough to realize that he has just as much ability to be charming as Leopold, once he figures out how to lose the attitude. I liked the film a lot!
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