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Summary: Just Plain Feel Good
Review: This is one of those movies that you walk away from feeling just plain good all over. Timothy Dalton plays a magnificient President, widowed father of 3 children, full of pride and just ready to be shown the way by our lovely cosmetology teacher played by Fran Drescher.
In the same flair as the Nanny, which Fran played an outstanding part of a Nanny, this movie takes you into the hearts of the children,Mr. President and Fran herself. Mistaken as a 'regular' teacher she is brought to another country to teach Mr. President's children. What will happen when they find out she is only a beauty teacher, the fun begins.
Lighthearted, yet not totally without some good lessons, this movie will make you laugh out loud, orrt for the good guys and say 'ah' at the end. Want to feel good? See this movie, it is a winner.
Rating: 
Summary: Cute and fun
Review: There are few actual laugh-out-loud funny moments in this movie but it is cute nonetheless. It has a plotline very much similar to Fran Drescher's TV show "The Nanny". Fran is a beauty college instructor who, through a misunderstanding, ends up in the fictional country of Slovetzia as the tutor of the president's children (one is played by the "bee Girl" from the Blind Melon video *hee-hee*). She brings the children out of their shells and also teaches the president a thing or two (about opening up, freedom and love). Unfortunately it takes her leaving for him to realize it, but there is a 'happily ever after' ending. This movie is a must-have for Fran Drescher fans needing a fix!!
Rating:
Summary: Cute and fun
Review: There are few actual laugh-out-loud funny moments in this movie but it is cute nonetheless. It has a plotline very much similar to Fran Drescher's TV show "The Nanny". Fran is a beauty college instructor who, through a misunderstanding, ends up in the fictional country of Slovetzia as the tutor of the president's children (one is played by the "bee Girl" from the Blind Melon video *hee-hee*). She brings the children out of their shells and also teaches the president a thing or two (about opening up, freedom and love). Unfortunately it takes her leaving for him to realize it, but there is a 'happily ever after' ending. This movie is a must-have for Fran Drescher fans needing a fix!!
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Summary: Fabulous Fran!
Review: Although this movie was rather cliche`, I thought it was wonderfully hillarious! This is another fabulous Fran masterpiece about a young woman who longs to go somewhere in her life, which isn't helped by her nagging parents. Then one day she is mistaken for a school teacher and, with a twist of fate, is whisked off to an East European country, There she is forced to tutor the President's uptight children, but she teaches them more than school material. Let's just say that the Preisdent learns a thing or too also. Leave to a nazel nosed upbeat American like Drescher to unite family and friends in this motivational comedy about following your dreams.
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Summary: Devastating Dalton Delights Again
Review: As a lifelong Timothy Dalton fan (since 1968, sad isn't it?), I will watch absolutley anything he is in, though a lot of his stuff is a bit grim for my taste. In this delightfully frviolous romantic comedy he plays a stern Eastern European Dictator whose heart is softened by the feisty New York girl he engages as governess for his children. The plot is extremely silly but who cares, it's funny and romantic, a sort of whimsical updateing of 'The Sound of Music' (thankfully without any singing). The scene at the ball where Dalton suddenly sweeps the girl into his arms provoked an involuntary whimper of excitement and envy from me, causing my oldest son to exclaim "Oh honestly, Mum" in that disgusted tone teenagers are so good at. Even if you are not a Dalton fan you will enjoy this film if you are partial to romantic comedies that aren't too soppy.
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Summary: Devastating Dalton Delights Again
Review: As a lifelong Timothy Dalton fan (since 1968, sad isn't it?), I will watch absolutley anything he is in, though a lot of his stuff is a bit grim for my taste. In this delightfully frviolous romantic comedy he plays a stern Eastern European Dictator whose heart is softened by the feisty New York girl he engages as governess for his children. The plot is extremely silly but who cares, it's funny and romantic, a sort of whimsical updateing of 'The Sound of Music' (thankfully without any singing). The scene at the ball where Dalton suddenly sweeps the girl into his arms provoked an involuntary whimper of excitement and envy from me, causing my oldest son to exclaim "Oh honestly, Mum" in that disgusted tone teenagers are so good at. Even if you are not a Dalton fan you will enjoy this film if you are partial to romantic comedies that aren't too soppy.
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Summary: The King And I is redone
Review: Fran Drescher is a beauty school teacher transplanted to Slavic Europe in Anna and the King of Slavitsky, or Beautician and the Beast, whatever they decided to name it, an obvious knockoff of The King And I. He's a power monger, she's a bright American who softens and civilizes him. Very comforting to the American ego. Some of the movie is funny, some is stupid, some is boring, and it has the big emotional ending.
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Summary: The all-time two-star movie
Review: Fran Drescher is an interesting actor, in that she doesn't so much do the same schtick in everything she does as play exactly the same character, a brass-plated beautician from Queens whose irresistible charm blows like a cheery breeze through the stuffy household of yadda yadda yadda. In this film, it's supposed to be the household of a Slavic dictator, but it all looks a bit Prisoner of Zenda to me, especially in the uniforms. (High collars and fencing went out with the Romanovs, guys.) This is a two-star movie because, while it's not exactly awful enough to shout and swear at, it's certainly awful enough that the fact of its existence, soberly considered, is a serious misdemeanour. "The Nanny" was pleasant enough in its WASP setting, but placing the same character down in a totalitarian society is a major lapse of taste. I mean, where are the holding cells? Where are the death squads? Where are the State Security Police? The random shootings? The ethnic violence? The villain is that nice Patrick Malahide, the hapless lech from "The Singing Detective", who while he does have the physical appearance of a party functionary, is too good to be doing stuff like this. (Maybe he had kids' dental bills to pay.) The whole thing is like some nightmare dreamed by Stanley Donen after a night of Andrzej Wajda movies and too many beetroot milkshakes. I predict a limited life for it on early Saturday evenings. Which, oddly enough, is when I saw it.
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Summary: I seriously LOVED the movie. Fran's my favorite actress!
Review: Fran Drescher is FANTASTIC! She's got a great sense of humor and I love her taste in clothes. If I could go shopping w/ her, it'd be tomorrow. I think she ought to come out w/ another television series.
Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable Comedy
Review: I can't say that I have been a fan of Fran Drescher, mainly because I never watched any of her TV shows. However, she does very good job in the role of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly recruited as a teacher for the children of an eastern European dictator played by Timothy Dalton. Much of Drescher's comedy is geared around, believe it or not, her voice. It has an Elmer Fudd quality to it--especially when she laughs. Drescher goes with the flow in attempting to teach Dalton's four children, but goes well beyond the three Rs--much to his consternation. Still, her down to earth style slowly wins Dalton's heart and transforms into something of a more acceptable world leader. While the ending is predictable, it is nonetheless satisfying.
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