Rating: 
Summary: Pure Beauty
Review: Definitely in my top ten movies, Amelie has the perfect combination of pure hilarity and beautiful romance (not the sappy kind). Following the beautiful Amelie around her touching spouts of good will and wicked little fun makes you feel supremley happy. I highly recommend this film to anyone, especially those who need a quick cheer up.
Rating:
Summary: Adorable Movie
Review: Really...An excellent film. The visuals are amazing, Jeunet really shows off his eye for directing, hopefully he can do more like this in the future and stay away from stinkers like Alien: Resurrection. The humor works very well, quirky but charming, like the rest of the film. The bits like the minute details about the characters and their interactions are very humorous. Which brings me to Amelie herself...Audrey Tautou is amazing, simply the most adorably cute actress ever. Her acting is well-done, the expressions and messages she conveys without speech are very eye-opening, close to the silent antics of Keaton or Chaplin. Some might call it overstatement, but this is one of the best films ever. A must-see, especially now when the summer movie period is winding down and you need a break from the mindless action and popcorn movies out there. A must-own.
Rating:
Summary: Charmed
Review: The MOST DELICIOUS FILM i have seen in years! It gives hope and a voice to all of us silent-ever-observing types. The kind of love story i could actually see myself in. Took my boyfriend to see it on one of our earliest dates and found myself wishing he were more like to wacky fellow. Am i alone?? I am a fan of largely foreign and independent film with the occassional dip into Hollywood. But that's just the beauty of it....reminds me of a time when Hollywood put forth films that charmed...as in the silent era. It is a film behind its time and that's the best compliment i can give :)
Rating: 
Summary: Reality collides Fantasy in France
Review: Since the beginning we notice something different. Amelie is not just an ordinary comedy, but the reflection of our desires of freedom, pasion, love and, of course, a little of revenge against whoever deserves it. In the movie, we are witnesses of the adventures of Amelie, since her birth till her quest for true love. We discover magic is also knowing our neigborghs, taking care of the people we are constantly in touch with, as the guy in the store, the old man at the door, etc. And we can also truly enjoy the little things about being alive, by seeing the ways of Amelie taking care of an old boring father, an excentric boss, or a mistery in the photo machines at the central station. The action is as fast as it would be in a thriller flick, but here we are enjoying a comedy. Definitely a great movie to see and to enjoy.
Rating:
Summary: Great movie. Classic:)
Review: I must say that this movie is one of the best movies I have seen in a VERY long time. The cintematography is amazing and the story is sweet. I could just watch the movie without any sound, but really and the movie would still be captivating. The settings, the props, the clothing..... everything, down to the tiniest detail was important to the people working on this film and it shows. There is absoltley nothing gratuitus about this movie. I have heard people say they have turned it off within the first few minutes because of this, and I must say they are wrong. There is absolutely nothing bad in this film. There is one scene which mentions orgasms.... but come on, exactly what is the problem with this? The story is about life, love and how the little things matter.
The only problem with the American DVD version at least is that the translation is very wrong at certain points. I can't understand how some of them were made, but it is not a major problem.
If you like Amelie, you would probably like L'argent de Poche(translated as Small Change, even though, again, I don't agree with the translation........ I sound very uppity, sorry reader).
Rating:
Summary: Instead of "Chocolat" here we have "Marshmallows"
Review: The visual theme of "Amelie" is the garish neon lighting found in French street fairs and the childish confectionary peculiar to the street fair or carnival--that is, guimauve or marshmallows. French marshmallow are nothing like the white pillow puffs we know; they are long strips of soft sugar candy that are dyed rose pink, banana yellow and sickly pistachio green. The colors of the marshmallows tint almost every scene in "Amelie" to tell you that life is a carnival fun-house, with something weird, nasty or fun at every hidden turn. The cinematography is incredible--each shot is framed like a painting. But wait, there IS a story here, oh yes, and it is well-told, too, because the script starts with a little pile of jigsaw puzzle pieces and by the end of the film you are dropping each into place to complete the story. It's brilliant. The theme is love, hurt and risk, nothing unusual in that. But the story is quirky and very, very funny. You are left at the end wondering how anyone could come up with a film like "Amelie." But, I am sure glad they did. It's one of my favorites, even more charming than "Chocolat" and a lot more complex. One and only one criticism; the subtitles are sometimes way, way off. As in, really wrong. I'm not talking about an interpretation problem of a French idiom, some of the subtitles are just translated incorrectly, making for a bit of confusion unless you happen to have a French speaker handy to clarify. But this is a small flaw that really doesn't detract too much from the overall delight.
Rating:
Summary: One of the best movies ever
Review: Amelie is a really great movie. I watched it a couple of times, and it gets better every time. The movie is pure magic. It's sad that they didn't do a voice-over of it. It's hard to concentrate when you have to read all time and can't really enjoy the wonderfull images of this film. There is one thing more I have to say. There are a lot of people complaining about the "sexual" content of this movie, and I'm shocked, that it is rated R. Why? You wanna know something? Here in Germany, the movie is rated "6", that means that everyone from the age of 6 can watch it!! Come on! Don't be so prude! Our children are not walking sex-monsters because of it! ;-)
Rating:
Summary: Loved it.
Review: I loved this movie. Second only to Withnail and I for my favorite foreign film. As far as the "6th grade humor" mentioned in one review on this page, one really would have to perform feats of perceptual gymnastics to focus exclusively on the one or two orgasm jokes. There are only a few of those moments in the film which are a reflection of Amelie's inexperience/innocence for her age, 23, whereas the hilarity begins practically from the first screen, extends throughout the film and is all in the POV. The colors are great. The shots are great. If you like humor that comes from an odd POV, you'll like this. The only romantic comedy in a long time that hasn't left me yawning.
Rating:
Summary: beautiful film
Review: I love this film. It is beautifully done from the costumes to the settings to the music to the story. I did not know what to expect when I started to watch it. I'm glad I did not have any set idea in my head. If you enjoyed "Chocolat" I think you'll enjoy this too. The actors are wonderful.
Rating:
Summary: delightfully ambivalent
Review: A wonderful visual essay about how wonderful it is to be French: feeling sorry for someone who must eat borchst. But at the same time a caveat about how, as Al Bundy once so pithily put it, "It is wrong to be French!" That is, obsession with the past could leave one with "brittle bones." Or, an examination of activism vs. tragedy. Etc, etc.
| 
