Rating: 
Summary: One Of The Best Movies Ever!!!
Review: "Woman on Top" was one of the best movies I've ever seen. The bedroom love scenes were some of the most beautifully portrayed and sensual that I've ever seen without all of the nudity and vulgarity usually portrayed in American made movies. The scenes of the beautiful,Bahia,Brazil especially it's Peulorinho district where Isabella and Toninho live are also very beautifully portrayed and no place in the world is more lovely than the Peulorinho at night. Having travelled to Bahia I can testify that Bahia definitely has a magical feel and visitors to Bahia often remark,"Bahia Enfeitica" which means "Bahia casts its spell on you" and well it might given the number of African deities called Orixas that are worshipped in Bahia. Yemanja is often referred to as the "Mother of the Orixas" and offerings are frequently made to Her by Brazilians to incur Her blessings especially on New Year's Eve where everyone in Brazil goes to the beach at night with their offerings in hand all dressed in white. This movie is far from a fairytale as it beautifully portrays how the Orixas are very much appreciated in the daily lives of Brazilians.The directors of this movie were thoughtful enough to engage well-known Candomble priestesses Mae Lucia and Mae Stella to get an accurate portrayal of Candodmble and it's rituals. I thought that Penelope Cruz and Murilo Benicio did a wonderful job as a married couple and they have a wonderful chemistry together on the screen and although both have their flaws as individuals they learn by combining their strengths how to create the perfect dish. I highly recommend this DVD to people especially those that have an interest in Bahia and Candomble or just want to view a beautifully,portrayed love story. The soundtrack is also a wonderful addition to the movie. Yemanja be praised!!!
Rating:
Summary: One Of The Best Movies Ever!!!
Review: "Woman on Top" was one of the best movies I've ever seen. The bedroom love scenes were some of the most beautifully portrayed and sensual that I've ever seen without all of the nudity and vulgarity usually portrayed in American made movies. The scenes of the beautiful,Bahia,Brazil especially it's Peulorinho district where Isabella and Toninho live are also very beautifully portrayed and no place in the world is more lovely than the Peulorinho at night. Having travelled to Bahia I can testify that Bahia definitely has a magical feel and visitors to Bahia often remark,"Bahia Enfeitica" which means "Bahia casts its spell on you" and well it might given the number of African deities called Orixas that are worshipped in Bahia. Yemanja is often referred to as the "Mother of the Orixas" and offerings are frequently made to Her by Brazilians to incur Her blessings especially on New Year's Eve where everyone in Brazil goes to the beach at night with their offerings in hand all dressed in white. This movie is far from a fairytale as it beautifully portrays how the Orixas are very much appreciated in the daily lives of Brazilians.The directors of this movie were thoughtful enough to engage well-known Candomble priestesses Mae Lucia and Mae Stella to get an accurate portrayal of Candodmble and it's rituals. I thought that Penelope Cruz and Murilo Benicio did a wonderful job as a married couple and they have a wonderful chemistry together on the screen and although both have their flaws as individuals they learn by combining their strengths how to create the perfect dish. I highly recommend this DVD to people especially those that have an interest in Bahia and Candomble or just want to view a beautifully,portrayed love story. The soundtrack is also a wonderful addition to the movie. Yemanja be praised!!!
Rating:
Summary: One Of The Best Movies Ever!!!
Review: "Woman on Top" was one of the best movies I've ever seen. The bedroom love scenes were some of the most beautifully portrayed and sensual that I've ever seen without all of the nudity and vulgarity usually portrayed in American made movies. The scenes of the beautiful,Bahia,Brazil especially it's Peulorinho district where Isabella and Toninho live are also very beautifully portrayed and no place in the world is more lovely than the Peulorinho at night. Having travelled to Bahia I can testify that Bahia definitely has a magical feel and visitors to Bahia often remark,"Bahia Enfeitica" which means "Bahia casts its spell on you" and well it might given the number of African deities called Orixas that are worshipped in Bahia. Yemanja is often referred to as the "Mother of the Orixas" and offerings are frequently made to Her by Brazilians to incur Her blessings especially on New Year's Eve where everyone in Brazil goes to the beach at night with their offerings in hand all dressed in white. This movie is far from a fairytale as it beautifully portrays how the Orixas are very much appreciated in the daily lives of Brazilians.The directors of this movie were thoughtful enough to engage well-known Candomble priestesses Mae Lucia and Mae Stella to get an accurate portrayal of Candodmble and it's rituals. I thought that Penelope Cruz and Murilo Benicio did a wonderful job as a married couple and they have a wonderful chemistry together on the screen and although both have their flaws as individuals they learn by combining their strengths how to create the perfect dish. I highly recommend this DVD to people especially those that have an interest in Bahia and Candomble or just want to view a beautifully,portrayed love story. The soundtrack is also a wonderful addition to the movie. Yemanja be praised!!!
Rating: 
Summary: Woman on Top
Review: A Cute Movie full of Love and Magic~ I'm not a Penelope Cruz Fan at all. My Heart lays with Nicole Kidman~ However this movie is "Fun, Clean, and full of Magic and Love ~~The soundtrack is really a must have.
Rating:
Summary: Woman on Top
Review: A Cute Movie full of Love and Magic~ I'm not a Penelope Cruz Fan at all. My Heart lays with Nicole Kidman~ However this movie is "Fun, Clean, and full of Magic and Love ~~The soundtrack is really a must have.
Rating: 
Summary: Two hours you will never get back.
Review: A talent of mine few people know about is that I can quite easily sit and look at a picture of Penélope Cruz for hours. I can, nearly as easily, listen to her squeaky voice, or observe her quirky ballerina-like mannerisms. This film really put this task to the test. I gave in towards the end and fast forwarded to see how it ended. Aside from beautiful Penélope Cruz, I found this movie simply unwatchable. Penélope Cruz plays a gifted cook from Bahia who suffers from motion sickness. She leaves her cheating husband and moves to San Francisco where she stars in a T.V. cooking show and makes men all over town insatiably hungry. You'll have to figure the rest out.
Rating: 
Summary: Food and Sex on a small budget --
Review: but then, what else is new? I'm afraid Stanley Tucci's splendid *Big Night* is to blame for the recent spate of "art house" movies featuring food and "passion" and how they're "mystically" connected. Or maybe it was *Like Water For Chocolate* that started it. Indeed, *Woman On Top* closely resembles the latter film -- it's about a beautiful Latina woman, surrounded by insensitive or dismissively wimpy men, who happens to be a genius in the kitchen. The movie isn't terrible; it just isn't much of anything. What precious little there is involves the same old "magic realism" (yawn -- a dead horse since Garcia Marquez's *Love In The Time Of Cholera*); the same old cad lover who tries to win his girl back; the same old transvestite "buddy" . . . so forth. To top it off, the movie tries to persuade us that Penelope Cruz's motion sickness is something we should be worried about. (Uh, I believe her stunning beauty more than compensates. Duh!) *Woman On Top* is as persuasive an argument as any that so-called "indie" movies are subject to the same tired formulas, within their specialized milieu, as the most egregious Hollywood summer blockbusters.
Rating:
Summary: Food and Sex on a small budget --
Review: but then, what else is new? I'm afraid Stanley Tucci's splendid *Big Night* is to blame for the recent spate of "art house" movies featuring food and "passion" and how they're "mystically" connected. Or maybe it was *Like Water For Chocolate* that started it. Indeed, *Woman On Top* closely resembles the latter film -- it's about a beautiful Latina woman, surrounded by insensitive or dismissively wimpy men, who happens to be a genius in the kitchen. The movie isn't terrible; it just isn't much of anything. What precious little there is involves the same old "magic realism" (yawn -- a dead horse since Garcia Marquez's *Love In The Time Of Cholera*); the same old cad lover who tries to win his girl back; the same old transvestite "buddy" . . . so forth. To top it off, the movie tries to persuade us that Penelope Cruz's motion sickness is something we should be worried about. (Uh, I believe her stunning beauty more than compensates. Duh!) *Woman On Top* is as persuasive an argument as any that so-called "indie" movies are subject to the same tired formulas, within their specialized milieu, as the most egregious Hollywood summer blockbusters.
Rating: 
Summary: I¿ll Take Some More of the Passion Food, Please.
Review: Despite its simplistic plot, which drags in a few (and far between) places, Woman On Top is an adorable and passionate love story. Penelope Cruz has got to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, as well as an incredibly talented actress. The smooth Latin music added a sensual, moonlight-breezy atmosphere throughout the fairy tale, creating lovers' candy on film. At the end of this movie, I felt a little sexier, a little happier to be a woman. We do have quite a bit of power if you think about it, ladies...But, damn, I wish I had a Brazilian accent.
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Summary: Maybe the single worst movie you will ever see
Review: Everyone involved with the making of this film should be put under house arrest and kept away from cameras for the rest of their lives. The dialogue is garbage. The music is sappy, ethno-philiac garbage. The actors--all of them--are garbage. Let's not talk about the lighting. Let's not talk about the makeup. Let's not talk about the absurdly horrendously stupid cooking subplot. Or about how all Latins, apparently, do nothing but cook and dance and sing and make lo---ve all day long. This isn't bad like, Boy you have to watch this movie to see how bad it is. It's bad like, Please don't ever watch this movie, because you won't be able to forigve yourself.
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