Mermaids
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Movie Reviews of Mermaids
Movie Review: Charming
Summary: 4 Stars
This Movie was a wonderful movie with a somewhat realistic view, i think it is worth the money and a great Movie for women everywhere.Movie Review: Great movie about growing up -
Summary: 3 Stars
And getting your hands on the guy you really, really like, only to find out he's not what you expected.
This film probably taught me a lot when I watched it while growing up. Thankfully, my relationship with my mum is a lot better than the relationship between the two main characters, played fantastically by Cher & Winona Ryder. Sometimes the movie comes across as over ambitious: there's a little sister (Christina Ricci, in a very young role) and also two separate love stories run simultaneously with the mother-daughter theme.
Christina Ricci is the shining star in this movie, she's very cute looking, although at one point she does look like ET! She seems to be left to the side a lot, as the main characters are Winona & Cher, but when Christina is in a scene with them, she steals the limelight firmly away. Hard to believe she was only 10 in this movie, and has since rumoured to have a breast reduction - although it could be through to (severe) weight loss.
Winona was prefect to play this role. It concerns all the teenage angst you can possibly have in one movie, although the scene where she goes to the doctor thinking she's pregnant after one peck on the lips is positively cringe worthy. The climax in her & Joe's relationship with their drunken love making scene shows all the tenderness & pain of your first time, whether you're drunk or not. And how it could all go down the pan afterwards when you feel awkward around each other.
Bob Hoskins plays the loveable Lou, although I wasn't that keen on him in this movie. He seemed to eager to please all the time and dare I say it, almost sleazy in his pursuit of "Mrs Flax".
There's of course a lack of extras on this DVD, which I was epxecting, but afer seeing "The Shoop Shoop Song" video on a music channel's ultimate movie soundtracks weekend, I wish they'd put it on the DVD!
This a movie full of dark eyed beauties, and will probably remind you of your first love. It's a great movie for just thinking back over your life, and remembering all those stupid fights with your mother.
Movie Review: A Fun Chick Flick with Many Good Moments
Summary: 3 Stars
A lightweight but enjoyable chick flick set in the Sixties starring Cher in the role of Mrs. Flax, a single mother who is forever moving from one place to the next every time one of her love affairs runs aground, or so tells her daughter Charlotte (Winona Ryder), whose narration appears here and there in the film to fill in the gaps when the plot would not normally explain itself. From the outset, the Flax family is a study in contrasts. Mrs. Flax (her first name is never disclosed in the film, which seems odd, as she is the most extroverted member of the family) is flirtatious to a fault. Charlotte, although her family is Jewish, is obsessed with Catholicism and the Catholic rite. Kate is totally involved in swimming and nothing else, hence the title of the film. Mrs. Flax wastes no time in striking up a friendship with Lou Landsky (Bob Hoskins), the shoe-store proprietor in the center of town, and that friendship quickly becomes intimate. Charlotte's obsessive pursuit of the celibate life of a nun is shaken when she meets a handsome man who works at the convent (Michael Schoeffling).
The plot tends to meander somewhat in the latter part of the film, but the dialogue in the film is first rate, and somehow the acting keeps the film afloat. The pairing of Bob Hoskins and Cher might seem unlikely, but they are an amazing couple in the film. The sequence in which Charlotte discovers that she is not pregnant comes across as particularly amusing, especially considering who her mother is and how unlikely it would be that she would reach that age and be so naive; whether it is believable or not, it still gets a good laugh. The finale has little, if anything, to do with the film, but by then, who cares? It's just for the fun of it, and that's what this film is about: having fun.
Movie Review: Slow Moving, Overcooked Chick Flick
Summary: 2 Stars
I love a good chick flick as well as anyone, but this one is a stinkfest. The story seems tentative and unfinished and the Cast often flounder trying to flesh out this mess. Mrs Flax (Cher) moves her two daughters (Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci) from town to town for reasons which are never really explained. Charlotte (Ryder) is an annoying teenager obsessed with the Bible and with not wanting to be like her Mother, who she perceives to be immoral. Ricci is too precious for words, but manages to be less insufferable than Ryder. Poor Bob Hoskins, who has a psuedo-relationship with Cher but then sort of fades away halfway through the film: he is far too good to be in this drivel. All of this leaves Cher playing a character that verges on self-parody and she attempts to bring some excitement to the part by overacting to beat the band. Her big dramatic moments recall Sally Field's overdone graveyard scene in "Steel Magnolias." This was a troubled production: three Directors, several Stars came and went, and the response upon release was ho-hum. Cher's career as a Leading Lady stalled while Ricci and Ryder went on to greater success.Movie Review: Bob Hoskins good actor
Summary: 2 Stars
Can't believe I'm writing a review for this movie.Out of all the flicks I reviewed this is probably the oddest of them all.Well Mermaids isn't my kind of movie ,but I can say I seen it.Bob Hoskins is a great actor and has been in films such as , Roger Rabbit , Enemy at the Gates and Unleashed w/ Jet Li.Mermaids is too soft for me to ever watch , I guess I'm trying to say it's for younger females.