Mystic Pizza
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Movie Reviews of Mystic Pizza
Movie Review: Mindless way to spend a Sunday afternoon
Summary: 3 Stars
Despite the fact that Julia Roberts' face is displayed predominantly on the cover of this DVD, it's not a vehicle just for her. It maybe set her on the way to stardom, but she's in no way a great actress in this. She's the 'pretty' one of the film.
I picked this film for dead cheap months ago, and have never been in the mood for watching it. Until a couple of days ago, I put it in the DVD player and discovered a sweet film which reminded me slightly of Steel Magnolias and has possibly influenced a lot of other films in recent years. It's a predictable story, about two sisters and a friend, waitressing in a pizza place, caught in the summer after leaving school, and what to do with the rest of their lives.
You know where it goes from here. We've got the one who loves her boyfriend very much, but is so scared of commitment that she faints at the altar, played wonderfully by Lili Taylor. She's the friend. Then one sister who babysits only to fall for the kid's dad, played by Annabeth Gish. And then what could politely be called as the 'woman about town', by Julia Roberts, who falls for a rich guy, and makes an embarrassment of herself in front of his snobby parents.
It's a pretty much uneventful film, big hair, big clothes, big eighties film. There's not much to comment on, unless you spot Matt Damon in a family scene, given one line, for one of his first film roles. Apart from that, it's good enough to waste some time on a very lonely weekend.
Movie Review: Don't buy it for the Matt Damon crush!
Summary: 3 Stars
It's girl's night in, although less-than formative for a young Julia Roberts, in such later company as 'My Best Friend's Wedding' or 'The Mexican'-- a decidedly pedestrian romantic comedy that scores in the 'cute' category, but somehow does not deliver 'buildup, breakup, makeup' catharsis that I know all you girls crave in a film of this genre. Particularly interesting, though, is the reversal of classic sex-roles pioneered by Vincent D'Onofrio, when Bill, his character, declares to love-nymph Jo Jo (played by Lili Taylor) "I'm telling you that I love you... and all you love is my d***!"It's three for one in the love-tryst column, with the action shifting nubilely from each of the sister's separate but inextricably linked soap-operas. The continuity of the three stories admittedly works, but no box of tissues needed. Oh, and you guys make sure you're comfortable, in case you fall asleep.
The unlikely and scarcely workable casting match of Roberts with object Adam Storke (the baby-faced favorite-son Charles) sours the appeal here, but, after all, 'These are the times to remember.'
Movie Review: A Movie Worth Watching With a Comfortable Feel to It
Summary: 3 Stars
Watched the 1988 movie "Mystic Pizza" today. It was one of the first movies for the female leads Julia Roberts , Annabeth Gish (native of Cedar Falls, Iowa), and Lili Taylor. Interestingly, Gish's name appears before Roberts in the credits at the end. Gish has gone on to a productive career, mostly in television, Taylor has moved into a career in more independent, quirky movies while Roberts has gone on to...well, you know.
I read Roger Ebert's review and he gave the movie 3 1/2 starts (out of 4) when it came out. I wouldn't rate it that high (maybe 2 1/2 or 3 out of 4), but the movie has kind of a comfortable feeling to it and gets better as it goes along. You don't see many movies about work & work environments these days and I think the scenes in the Mystic Pizza Parlor are pretty good. The romantic storylines are pretty standard and as Ebert says, "The movie isn't really about three girls in love; it's about three girls discovering what their standards for love are going to be." All-in-all I liked the movie. Oh, and watch carefully for Matt Damon in his big-screen debut!
Movie Review: This movie is OK
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an OK movie. I saw it for the first time about 3 years ago and I did not get bored with it. It is not something I would want to watch on a regular basis.Movie Review: BORING
Summary: 1 Stars
This film was just stupid. Several friends work in a pizza parlor together, and their lives go in different directions. Julia Roberts in one of her earliest roles, and MY MY MY has she changed. She played a loose, temperamental "town ..." who gets involved with a rich guy and has to figure out how to play on his turf (preparation for Pretty Woman, maybe?), Lili Taylor plays a girl who is soon going to marry her long-time boyfriend. She has doubts, but in the end does marry him. Another character (Annabeth Gish, I think) is saving money to go to Harvard (or some Ivy league school) and finds a job as a nanny. The man who hires her is married, his wife is in England or somewhere, and they have an affair. And when the wife arrives, he tries to pretend nothing ever happened. Nothing new about that story. The film tries to show the womens' enduring friendship, but it is all... dull and contrived.