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Summary: An Irresistible Romantic Comedy
Review: SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE is just that. You see, the lead character, Amanda (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is running her restaurant to ruin, until she falls in love with Tom (Sean Patrick Flanery), which inspires her to all of a sudden become a great culinary artist, and her restaurant starts to do very well, with Tom actually stealing one of her desserts from a 75-year-old woman in the store (Bendel's) for whom he's opening a restaurant. His own chef starts acting like the husband in the Victoria Principal flick DANCING IN THE DARK (yeah, the one who puts his own wife in the loony bin) and the parents in the TV movie WITHOUT CONSENT (the ones who put their daughter in a mental hospital where patients are mistreated), and so he asks Amanda to cater a party he's hosting, and the result is that they end up together (or so I think). Overall, some of the information on ersys.com should be taken like the humor in this movie, especially the listings of Congressmen/Congresswomen for certain cities, as names are listed of people no longer in office (and in a few cases, out of office since 1999), or who no longer represent that town or city. Some information on vote-smart.org should also be taken like the comic elements of SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE, since some candidates' survey responses are either self-contradictory, not consistent with their interest group ratings, and/or inaccurately reported.
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Summary: Resist the Irresistable
Review: Some clever ideas, but the script was too weak to properly convey the overall themes and plot points. Characters weren't very well developed. Elements were introduced and then never revisited or properly explained. The acting was weak from all involved, but I don't really blame the actors. The dialogue that was written for them must have been hard to take seriously. I also didn't really ever believe that Gellar and Flanery had any real chemistry. Fortunately, they don't spend a lot of time together in the movie.
It could have been a cute little romantic comedy but instead was wasted potential.
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Summary: a great movie!
Review: Sarah michelle gellars acting was great! Its the perfict romantic comedy that will make you hungry the whole time, since smg is a wonderful cheif in this. "She bring her bewitching charms to a tale of love" you love smg then this is a must see! :)
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Summary: The best!
Review: This movie rocked! sarah michelle gellar did bring her magic with her. Amanda (SMG) meets the love of her dreams but he thinks shes an evil witch because her foods is practally magic. she is a great cook and the emotion she has, goes into her food that she cooks. Like at the end a tear falls in the food and everyone starts crying. also at the begeining, Chris goes crazy because of amandas emotion. Amanda gets mad and beats up the chicken saying how evil chris is and stuff... so chris acts how amanda was acting since she ate the food. This movie is a must see if you love romantic comidies and sarah michelle gellar :)
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Summary: entertaining but shallow
Review: This movie is about a young, not very talented female cook who finds a magic crab which makes all her food go magic. She falls in love with a man who is about to open an expensive high society restaurant. Her magic foods makes him fall in love with her but also frightens him. The film is all about the food. Its not even
a love story between the two main characters, its a love story to
caramel and vanilla. Its probably nice to look on xmas evening, you can miss large parts of the movie without missing essentials of the plots because there are none. I like the crab. I didnt like the actors they were all just to anxious to make magic fitting into the 21st century.
You might like this movie if you are very into cooking. I would recommend you look Chocolat instead, it has much much more charme and quality.
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Summary: It was good...
Review: I just finish watching the movie... I was happy that it was a perfect copy and no interruptions (scratches and such). I will be more than glad to order from you again!
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Summary: "You think with your nuts"
Review: Magically unfunny movie that someone sold their soul to get made. If you decide to watch this (I'm praying for you) be sure to purchase some leeches beforehand. After you are through enduring this "movie" you will apply the leeches to your eyes so that the evil can be sucked out of them. Beware, this is the second sign of the Apocalypse.
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Summary: "The Mussels Are Ready"-Amanda Shelton
Review: Mmmm, mussels... They provide an excellent metaphor for this little known romantic comedy as they are an unforgiving shell surrounding an unmistakeably unique tasting meat. Either you like them or you don't and so it is with this film. If you have trouble enjoying the average Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan canoodler then this movie probably isn't for you. Only the truly romantic who believe in spells and rapture will appreciate "Simply Irresistible". The story doesn't always make sense as it tends to meander off in odd ways just like the character Stella, (played by Betty Buckley), but this is also part of its charm, it's unpredictability. There is a woozy style to the filmmaking that perfectly captures the story's setup, a young chef finds love and fulfillment at the claws of a magical crab. As silly as it sounds, "Simply Irresistible" is also incredibly sincere with first rate performances from all involved. However even the tastiest mussels sometimes get gritty and there are enough <what the...?> moments in "Simply Irresistible" to snap first time viewers out of their trances. This is a film that actually improves the more you watch it as the discordant moments tend to soften with exposure. The ending is by far the movie's weakest link as it asks the viewer to believe in an instantaneous makeover for the movie's star and revisit a restaurant scene that has by this time exhausted its interest. How much better would it have been if leading man Tom, (Sean Patrick Flanery), had met Amanda, (Sarah Michelle Gellar), on the pavement in front of the department store and taken her for a walk through the nighttime streets of midtown Manhattan? We would have gotten to see more of their admirable chemistry and also maybe been given a glance at how their relationship would develop after the credit roll. Instead were left literally dangling in mid air feeling a bit silly. Because of its flawed ending I can only give "Simply Irresistible" four stars and certain plot holes would have reduced this score to three if it weren't for the always inventive use of soundtrack in the movie. One plot hole that particularly disappoints is the disappearance of Amanda's benefactor Gene O'Reilly (played wonderfully by Christopher Durang) after the film's first few minutes. More of his presence might have helped ease the audience into the magical realism the script so heavily relies upon. Thankfully there are enough moments of spontaneous convergence when the dialogue, acting, and direction seem to merge into an effortless liquidity that its like watching a lava light, hypnotic. Nothing creates this effect better than Patricia Clarkson's sumptiously brassy performance as Tom's assistant Lois. Every scene she's in she steals and her seduction of department store tycoon Jonathan Bendel, (Dylan Baker), more than justifies the suspension of disbelief this film requires. Flanery and Gellar work well together here with Flanery delicately walking a fine line as an ambitious yet romantically feckless young executive enchanted by Amanda's cooking and then Amanda herself. My favorite moment, when Tom arrives at Amanda's very busy restaurant to break it off with her only to be smitten with her all over again as she hands him a customer's order to deliver. The song "Secret Smile" by Semisonic starts to swell as Amanda says "The mussels are ready" while beaming a hundred watt grin in Tom's direction. It's the kind of magic scene that enlivens this unusual and giddy confection of a film.
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