Something's Gotta Give
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Movie Reviews of Something's Gotta Give
Movie Review: Delightful
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're under, say, 40, this is a nice comedy about a couple of old people. But if you're over 40... or better, over 50... this is a hilarious, joyful romantic comedy that captures the best of some of the classic romantic film duos, like Tracy and Hepburn.In fact, this film will remind you of a dozen films, some classics, that you've seen before. It starts out like a French farce and quickly turns into All That Jazz, and then The Man Who Came To Dinner, and then You've Got Mail. And so on, yet it manages to continually do so with freshness and originality. There may be a few cliches- it's hard to do a love story without falling into a few- but it still manages to suprise you and keep you interested from beginning to end.
Nicholson does a nice turnabout and plays something other than the stock manic character he's taken to parodying in so many films. If anything, he's parodying his own life here. And Keaton's performance has just a touch of parody of her most famous role, that of Annie Hall, but with much more depth and humor and sophistication. And it's great to see mature people playing mature people relating to other mature people, lines and all. The charatcters ring true as middle aged, neither prettied up nor turned into doddering parodies of age.
A wonderfully warm movie that celebrates love that lives on beyond youth, not to mention a great date film that both men and owmen will love. Go see it.
Movie Review: Don't believe all the nay-sayers
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, there is no doubt that this movie will appeal to a certain demographic, so if you are a twentysomething male I can assure you this is likely not the flic for you. If however you can appreciate a movie that is a pure romantic comedy with "mature" characters complete with wrinkles and sags intact, then this is the movie for you. Yes, some of the dialogue is less than realistic, but tell me, how many romantic comedies have dialogue that any of us have ever spoken in real life? So what, it's funny and romantic and has Jack doing some of his best comedic work. There are those that say they don't want to see a 60 year old actor doing love scenes with a woman half his age (but isn't this an actor who has dated virtually nothing but younger women his whole life?) Who better to play the part than a man who until recently was dating Lara Flynn Boyle? Diane Keaton plays to type, but she is sweet and lovely, and I for one appreciated seeing a mature actress in a lead romantic role who has not been nipped and tucked within an inch of her life. Diane looked glorious wrinkles and all, what a refreshing change from the usual Hollywood imagery of women. And yes, Keanu was wooden as always, but I think that was the whole idea. His role was to be the token eye candy, and while his skills as a thespian may be lacking, he is not hard on the eyes. 4.5 starsMovie Review: I was skeptical but I actually loved this movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
I for one am very biased against romantic comedies. A vast majority of them are extremely predictable and go nowhere for me. While some of that does apply to "Something's Gotta Give", however the main characters however though give this film a more original twist. Harry Sanborn is a 60 year old bachelor who never dates women over 30 years old and has fallen in love with another one...again except by this point he realizes he has been finding himself being attracted to someone who is in his age group (50+ years of ago) and this has started to make him think about his polygamous ways plus heart problems have plagued him.
He starts to realize that the older woman, a Playwright worker and he share a lot in common and Harry realizes that he has a choice to make.
This movie while stymied by some predictable elements, is a really smartly done movie in a lot of ways. No pun indended at all but many movies of this genre are focused on younger couples and this extremely formulaic pattern really ruins many movies in this category but SGG however steers clear of that by focusing on older characters.
In some ways this film was bothersome but it was because it reminded me of someone one of my relatives dated years ago before things went sour.
This is a great movie worth checking out.
Movie Review: Very good.
Summary: 5 Stars
Just knowing that actors like Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton work together just makes you feel sure to buy or see the movie.As soon as this movie came out I bought it and found it very good. Their performances in this movie are flawless (Diane Keaton won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar) and I also think that they made the perfect couple for the story.
The story is about an ungry and solitary , successful writer (Keaton) that goes to her Hamptons house for the weekend with her sister without knowing that her doughther (Amanda Peet) was also going to be there with her much older boyfriend (Nicholson). They all stay in the house even tough Erica (Keaton) didn't like Harry (Nicholson) at all.
The story has a twist when Harry almost suffers a heart attack and has to stay in Erica's house because the doctor (Keanu Reeves) recommended Harry not to go back to New York.
And well to make this short and to not tell you the whole story so you can see it. Harry in Erica fall in love and Harry's doctor also falls in love with Erica and there are some other twists in the movie and make it very interesting.
I also like this movie because shows how "old" people can also fall in love in a very cool way.
Movie Review: I hate the phrase "Chick Flick."
Summary: 5 Stars
Any movie that shows women's emotions and actually treats them with an ounce of respect is a "chick flick" that most men want to stay away from. Which is opposed to the "guy flick" where the women are treated like sex objects and there are a bunch of explosions and deaths. Come on guys. Are you mature men or 12 year old boys? Maybe if some men spent more time trying to understand women rather than objectifying them they might have better luck getting girlfriends.
This is PARTIALLY what Something's Gotta Give is about: how women want to be treated vs. how men THINK women want to be treated.
It's an excellent, funny, smart, refreshing movie. How often do we see an older man with an older woman in a romantic film nowadays? How often does that couple have excellent chemistry and actually look natural? Jack and Diane look and act like they had so much fun with this.
One nickpick I have is with Amanda Peet. She played her role too strait-laced and ended up coming off as boring. It really would have been a ball if she had mustered the off-kilter, slightly psychotic character she played in Saving Silverman. She's proven she can do decent comedy. Other than this small criticism, great flick.