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Don Juan DeMarco

Don Juan DeMarco

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Trashy film with lovable Brando
Review: The film was utter nonsense and the worst part about it was Johnny Depp! It is extremely unlikely that he could have any effect on women whatsoever. Every time he appeared on the screen I wanted to skip the scene. Marlon Brando, as fat as he was, would have been a more convincing Don Juan! To be honest, I'm a huge Brando fan and I think, even with his handsome looks gone, he has such a magical aura around him that you can feel it coming from the screen. Doesn't matter how unattractive Brando is in this movie, he is the most lovable character in it and the only reason I give the film 2 stars.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Strangely appealing date movie
Review: Johnny Depp is exquisite and completely believable as Don Juan, "the world's greatest lover." The quirky, unusual story, however, is saccharin at best and won't move even the most sentimental viewer to teary-eyes or goosebumps. Even so, it's a pleasant 90 minute diversion.

Brando is enormous and mumbling, seemingly with different wigs from shot to shot. Yet he is always watchable and amusing...one wonders what he might still achieve with that brilliant talent buried in there. Dunaway, too, shows genuine ability in this refreshingly uncharacteristic no-frills supporting roll that suits her age. Unfortunately, we are so mesmerized by her off-screen persona and impossibly unlined face that we can't let ourselves go in her characterization. As an onscreen couple they would have GREAT chemistry if it weren't for the fact that their offscreen personae eclipse them.

It's sweet and enjoyable...but with all that talent, it's a shame it wasn't better.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Don Juan Would Be Proud
Review: This movie put me in a relaxed and loving mood. I don't know whether it was the story, or the acting, or the combination of both. Johnny Depp plays yet another unorthadox character, almost as if he knows that nobody can do these roles except for him. He plays Don Juan with a confidence that is unmatched by most actors today. At first the way Don Juan speaks is annoying, but after enough time one gets use to it.

Marlon Brando plays Dr. Mickler, a pyschologist who is 2 weeks away from retirement. That is until Don Juan shows up. In the beginning Mickler believes that "Don Juan" is a delusionist that needs help. But after spending time with him, he starts to change his mind. The stories that Don Juan tell to Dr. Mickler start to affect his marriage (in a good way).

Don Juan DeMarco isn't the greatest movie in the world. It's not even the greatest romantic comedy. However, it still works its magic on you somehow. For anybody looking for a quirky movie rent or buy this film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Quirky is good.
Review: This is a movie I love and my wife hates. It's kind of surprising because we usually agree on which romantic comedies we like. So it's not easily categorized. Yes, the story is quirky, but in the end it's not about the story. This movie grabbed me by the cajones with one hand and the throat by the other and shook. It was Depp's characterization of Don Juan -handsome, charming, supremely confident, if delusional, about what women want sexually that mesmerizes.
He could make a woman tingle all over with a word and a look then gasp with anticipation at what he might do next.
Now that kind of expertise is a man's fantasy as much as it is a woman's.
Get past the fables, the cutsy stuff which works for some and not for others, and see it for the underlying emotions it brings out in you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A sexy movie for sexy people
Review: I consider myself quite sexy, and I loved Don Juan DeMarco. First and most obviously, Marlon Brando was a vision. He has gained a little weight since Last Tango in Paris, maybe a pound here and there, but that doesn't make his body any less sweet to look at or to imagine rolling on top of and nearly crushing one.

After seeing this movie I couldn't get Marlon out of my mind. I guess you could say I became a little obsessed. I leave that for the courts to decide. Whatever the case, two of us know what went on in that remote utility shed, and I for one will never forget it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Please dont buy this movie!
Review: This movie is horrible. It is so bad that when my husband and I went to see it in the movie theater we were the only people in the theater! We have never left a movie early before and we left this one 3/4 through. It is about a man running around having trists with women and that's it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great movie
Review: as usual, Johnny Depp is fantastic in his role in Don Juan DeMarco. Very insightful and romantic movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Johnny Is A Dream
Review: I have heard many girls complain that the only problem with Johnny Depp is that he is so hot that it's hard to concentrate on the movie or how great his acting is. I found that to also be true in this move. I'm still muscular.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Engaging, funny, and surprising
Review: Johnny Depp pulls off a difficult role as a delusional but ultimately engaging and sympathetic young psychotic who thinks he is Don Juan. Marlon Brando is reminiscent of Richard Burton in "Equus" as a brilliant but burned out psychiatrist. But "Don Juan De Marco" is no equine tragedy, nor an equestrian romp. It does parallel Equus in contrasting the psychotic's prison of delusion and institutional walls with the about-to-retire shrink's confinement in bureaucracy and the cliches of suburbia.
But this is not harshly done, and don't expect any Brando soliloquies like Burton's diatribe about touring around Greece with a suitcase "crammed full of kaopectate."

Don Juan De Marco is a gentle comedy that contrasts the reality of the psychiatrist and the patient, reaching the admittedly cliche conclusion that each has much to learn from the other.

It's a fun film and a good addition to the lighter end of any film buff's collection.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Light, quirky and fun
Review: The beautiful Johnny Depp as an equally beautiful mental patient proves that romance is infectious even to Marlon Brando's burned out therapist.

Brando's character, Dr. Mickler, is about to retire after years of service in an institution. He is tired of the system and ambivalent about his upcoming retirement.

In comes Depp, as a young Don Juan, who is committed after an apparent suicide attempt.

During his quest to find out who the young man really is, Dr. Mickler finds a little magic of his own and sees what it means to really influence others in a positive way.

He DOES in the end find out who the mysterious Don Juan really is, and he is just who he claims to be, with a twist.

I thoroughly have enjoyed this movie. It's light and positive and has a great ending. Brando and Dunaway play their characters well and Depp is his usual sublime self.


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