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Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, need I say more? The duo who teamed to make the hit Sleepless in Seattle are back with the highly anticipated You've Got Mail, you may better know the phrase if you are an American Online subscriber like I used to be. Hello again, I'm Mike and this is the Out & About Movie Review. Basically the movie is about two people who met on the Internet that are not weirdo transvestite pedophiles. I don't think I've ever used that word combo before. But seriously Hanks plays Joe Fox of the Fox and Sons bookstore chain, a Barnes and Noble or Borders type establishment. On the other side you have the always-perky Meg Ryan who plays Kathleen Kelly the owner and operator of the Just Around the Corner children's bookstore, an independent store on New York's Upper Westside. Mr. Hanks moves in his superstore book chain and kills off the competition with low prices, sounds kind of like what Wal-Mart has done to Main Street USA. Any ways, all the while both are fighting it out in the business world the two are falling out of love with their current live-in bed mates, Parker Posey for Hanks and that old late night talk show host Greg Kinnear for Ryan. Kinnear plays a columnist and technophobe, while Ms. Posey is in the publishing business. And while their falling out of love with those two, they are falling in love with a secret online buddy. Shopgirl and NY152 fall for each other in Cyberspace, but the real world it just isn't working out. That's all the plot I'll give you, but I will remind you that the movie is made by Hollywood and I can't recall a Meg Ryan movie in which she doesn't get her main, even in Courage Under Fire she got her man, she got killed, but still saved the man she was supposed to. Now despite the cheesiness of the picture and the unbelievable rate in which the two fall in love though the two know very little about each other, I still found myself enjoying the film. Both Hanks and Ryan give their usual good performances, and the supporting cast adds lots of laughs. This date movie of Warner Movies will probably do well at the box office, and the audiences won't be disappointed, but in the end they'll eventually ask themselves, "Haven't I seen this before?" Pretty much yes, but a few twists have been added to since Sleepless in Seattle 2 would be hard to make, I mean want kind of story could you possibly have after the two meet at the Empire State Building, there is simply no suspense left to the plot. It would be like making Titanic 2, the boats sunk and nobody would really care about the life of Rose. So to wrap things up we need to give You've Got Mail a rating. I think I'll go with seven couches on the old scale of ten. You may enjoy yourself in the theater, but in a year or two you won't be able to distinguish this movie from a long list of other films. For the Out & About Movie Review, I'm Mike Stevens. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:10 AM |
