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Don Juan DeMarco

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Move You're Sure to Fall in Love With
Review: Don Juan isn't just a great romantic comedy; it is THE romantic comedy for anyone looking for just as much romance as laughs.

The movie deals with a mental patient (Johnny Depp)who believes he is the legendary Don Juan, greatest lover in all the world. Marlon Brando plays Dr. Jack Mickler, the retiring pshychatrist who tries to cure him.

After Don Juan tries to kill himself and winds up in a mental hospital, Jack listens to him tell his life story and decides how to interpret it.

The cast is excellent. Johnny Depp is as soulful as he is sexy. Faye Dunaway is perfect as Jack's loving, devoted and somewhat neglected wife. And you can't help falling in love with Dr. Mickler.

This movie is quirky, heartwarming, funny, romantic, sexy and beautiful. It will make you want to fall in love if you're single, and make you want to rediscover your partner if you're not.

I highly recommend you buy this movie and watching it with your boyfriend/girlfriend, fiance, or husband/wife immediately.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sweet and romantic
Review: Johnny Depp is bee-yoo-tee-ful. As the self-styled Don Juan DeMarco, one glance from those deep brown eyes can turn you into melted butter while you're sitting on your sofa.

But Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway (as the middle-aged Dr. and Mrs. Mickler) are beautiful too. "Don Juan" and the good doctor influence each other's lives in very positive ways, and if you can watch the glowing delight of Mrs. Mickler as her husband of 32 years suprises her with high romance in a posh restaurant without getting tears in your eyes, you're a stronger person than I am.

I loved the gentle humor of this story and the romances of young and old. This is a happy, goofy little sweetheart of a movie and I give it 5 stars.

(My husband of thirteen years gives it three stars because by the time the credits rolled on the television screen, I was sitting on his lap with my arms around his neck.)

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Hated it
Review: Johnny Depp is not convincing. The plot is strange, trite, and annoying.

Brando needs to give up acting. He's extremely unconvincing and fat.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: excellent
Review: The condition of the DVD was excellent. The shipping was also excellent. I was truly impressed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nobody does wonderful and quirky better than Johnny Depp!
Review: This glorious and enchanting film is one of my favorites. Johnny Depp is contagious as the mental patient who convinces everyone with latent, romantic hearts, that he is indeed Don Juan de Marco, the greatest lover who ever lived. I love Johnny Depp in offbeat roles. In spite of all the controversy he has incurred over the years, he still captures my heart, especially when he plays roles like Don Juan and the Charlie Chaplin copy cat in Benny and Joon. I always thought he would have been sensational in the movie, Chaplin. Marlon Brando is also superb as the rotund, tired psychiatrist whom Don Juan, the patient, rescues from mediocrity. Faye Dunnaway is beautiful as his pragmatic, middle-aged wife. Together, they recapture the spirit of youth and demonstrate that regardless of advancing age, fun, sex appeal, and energy don't have to be wasted on the young. If you love adventure, passion, and joy, don't miss this alluring, little gem!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Depp and Brando, Dance and Tango.
Review: This is a very entertaining movie. The cast is excellent and the story is quite a bit of fun. There are some short comings in the film, but who cares.

Johnny Depp plays a deranged man who believes he is Don Juan. After he tries to kill himself he is sent to a mental hospital where he begings to tell his story to his doctor, Marlon Brando. Brando is about to retire and he takes on Depp as a last case in more ways then one. Brando is seemingly having troubles of his own and in an odd way these two characters end up helping each other.

From that description, you would never guess it, but this is a comedy. So now that we are past that, it is the relationship between Depp and Brando is the real charm of Don Juan DeMarco. They seem to really enjoy working together. The diologue Depp delivers in this film is enormously cheesy, but he is so great he pulls it off. Certainly for Brando this is the most substancial role(as far as screen time goes) he has played in twenty something years. I find his role amusing and it is always good to see Brando having a good time.

Don Juan DeMarco is a fun little movie. It is kind of light though. However to me that does not really matter because it is witty and clever. It is definately a must see for Brando and Depp fans. People who enjoy quirky comedy should enjoy it as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great story with great main characters
Review: "Don Juan DeMarco" is an entertaining, feel-good love/drama/comedy/fantasy movie. The story is interesting throughout and the acting is very good. Johnny Depp does a superb job at portraying mental patient Johnny DeMarco who thinks he's the legendary/literary Don Juan. Johnny Depp's talent for playing "outsider"-type characters delivers here as it does in "Benny & Joon" and "Edward Scissorhands." Through the use of present-day action combined with Johnny's flashbacks, albeit delusions, the story grabs your attention and sustains it through the end of the tale. Johnny's character's profound impact on the life of his doctor, played by Brando, is heart-warming. The ending is particularly good also.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Diverting if not filling.
Review: DON JUAN DEMARCO makes for a 90-plus minutes worth of taking your mind off your hard day at the office. Just don't mistake it for a masterwork.

It's fun to see Marlon Brando playing against type as a rumpled state psychiatrist intrigued by his new patient who claims to be the world's greatest lover and, judging by all of the women who long to be with him, seems to be able to back up that claim. Johnny Depp also is great fun to watch, as he suavely inhabits the role of the Don. And Faye Dunaway has a funny grace as Brando's wife, alternately bemused and charmed by her husband as he goes about bringing the romance back to their 32-year marriage. But the major problem with this film is that, good as they are individually, Brando and Depp don't really have the chemistry between them when they're onscreen together. You never get any sense of why the crusty Brando is so taken with Depp's Don, and that feels like a loose cog in what would otherwise have been a satisfying film. Brando and Dunaway, however, DO have that spark, and their onscreen pairing works quite well. And Depp DeMarco is so engaging on his own that he carries the viewer through any missteps.

So, a nice, charming little film that didn't set the world on fire when it was released initially but still makes for a nice low-key evening's entertainment, as long as you're in a forgiving mood.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A must-see for all the romantic at heart.
Review: A mildly, spontaneously entertaining romantic comedy about a passion-obssesed young man John (as always, a splendid Johnny Depp) who suffered from the breaking up of family and the rejection of his first love attempt. Marlon Brando plays psychiatrist Dr. Mickler who voluntarily took on the young patient's case as a bet on his last 10 days of service in the mental institution. Equally romantic at heart but caught in the thin line between reality and fantasy, Mickler uncovered his true passion as he went on spending more time with this fantastic John who believed he should be the son of once Spain's nobleman aka Don Juan DeMarco the greatest lover in the world. Like the end of the show and what Dr. Mickler had in mind, you will given in the helplessly romantic dream that land yourself in the soft, warm beach of Eros and realise the lover you want to spend your entire life with.

DON JUAN DEMARCO is definitely Depp's best at his dashing good look and accented speech on screen in 20 years. Brando is effortlessly charming, at this age he proves to be a long live Hollywood legend.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: "Every woman is a mystery to be solved"
Review: Damn right! Anyway, this movie I like purely for Johnny Depp. Cos what else is there to watch it for? Marlon Brando, who you need subtitles for just to understand him? I don't think so! The storyline is a pile of nonsense, especially when 'Don Juan' is actually in the mental hospital. The flashbacks are reasonably OK, and Johnny Depp is funny, but Marlon Brando?! And apparently, Johnny would only do this role if Marlon Brando was in it. Why was that exactly? Here's me thinking he had more taste than that.

I think I've seen this movie once before when I taped it off the TV. I watched it, thought it was OK, and all the good bits stayed with me. Then I forgot about it, grew up (ahem) and got it on DVD. Big mistake. I kinda have to keep it for a while, as it was a birthday present, until my mum (obviously, who else) forgets she gave me it for my birthday.

I don't know whether everyone else has a different DVD to me, but mine has NOTHING on it. Very disappointing. I mean, never mind I LOVE trailers on my DVDs, this didn't have a trailer, not even a scene selection! Shocking. Mind you, I did think this was a good DVD at one point.

Best bits of this movie? Johnny with his top off and wearing eyeliner (hmmmm, he does that again in Pirates of the Caribbean - another rubbish film, but he's great in it). Worst bits? Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway. I'm all for people staying together, and keeping the relationship alive, but Marlon Brando?


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