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Summary: "You've Got Mail": A feel-good, cry
Review: "You've got Mail" is the most enchanting movie about love. Underneath its obvious premise and outcome, lies a centre of warmth and goodness. You just want to cry, and hope that one day you fall in love like that.
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Summary: A fun movie to cheer yourself up with
Review: "You've Got Mail" is the ultimate romance movie, following the usual movie blue-print for movies of this genre. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks have excellent chemistry- whether they hate each other at the moment or are falling in love. Audiences everywhere know that Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan together equal a fun movie. You need to be in the mood for some fun and really get into the movie. If you're not in a romantic state of mind then of course you won't like this. We all know they somehow get together at the end, but the email connection and business rivalry add extra fun and a twist to make you wonder how it's all gonna end!
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Summary: A wonderful date movie
Review: "You've Got Mail" is very respectful of the original movie, "The Shop Around the Corner". It was fun to see the old movie first with Jimmy Stewart and then go and see this one. [Meg Ryan's hair is in places very distracting. It looks like she cut it herself with garden shears and then slept on it for a week.] However, my eleven year old son and I both cried at the end; and the music was really well done. About half way through the movie, Tom Hanks takes over and makes the movie work with the power of his acting ability. A movie I want to own.
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Summary: Wonderful film; even better if you've lived there
Review: "You've Got Mail" was probably the best movie of 1998. Shot in my neighborhood, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the movie is actually based somewhat on a true story. In the mid-1990s, there used to be a small, specialized bookstore in the west seventies named Shakespeare and Co. Then a giant multi-level Barnes and Nobles opened in the low eighties, I think West 83rd St., and Shakespeare and Co. closed shortly thereafter. Now the neighborhood is stuck with the kind of superstore Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) referred to as 'big, impersonal, overstocked, and full of ignorant salespeople.' The movie is charming and, contrary to what people have told me, alot more interesting and well written than "Sleepless in Seattle." It does make an average Upper West Sider's apartment what in reality is a $730,000 place (unless it's rent controlled), but that's not bad. It's hard to criticize this movie because it's so fantastic and heartwarming you would have to be a total pessimist (or not a New Yorker) to hate it.
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Summary: Ok, but too fluffy & unrealistic
Review: 'You've Got Mail' was a cute little movie, esp. considering that Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks were a couple in it, but it's definitely not a must-see. For one thing, it was very predictable. After the first five minutes I knew what was going to happen for the rest of the movie. For another, Joe Fox was just the *perfect* lover. He was extremly romantic, he treated Kathleen like a queen, he never thought of himself, he even set up the little rondevous where he reveals himself as the unseen man of her dreams. How many people do you meet like that? With some neat parts, a long running time and a corny ending, YGM will not go down as a classic, except in the minds of those who like those kind of fluffy movies.
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Summary: Sometimes reality and fantasy meet in real life.............
Review: ......and this movie is a great example of that. I met my husband through electronic mail and can vouch for the sweetness and romantic qualities of You've Got Mail. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are charming and endearing in this movie.It's also wonderful that they both have more scenes together than in the other five-star movie, Sleepless in Seattle. This is a light-hearted,romantic comedy that should be viewed by all.
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Summary: Books and Romance; it works.
Review: ...I was able to understand the existance of a mostly friendly community in which a small bookstore may thrive, and then be threatened by a larger, corporate entity. ...It may not be New York, but the story works in my "neck-of-the-woods" (so to speak).Aside from the fact that instant messaging doesn't work without both parties' "sign-on" participation, I think the movie is a hit. ...
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Summary: Charming Remake That Fits the 90's
Review: 1940's version "Shop Around The Corner" & 1949 version"In the Good Old Summertime" has been updated to the 90's & nothing has changed in the story with the exception ofits taking place in the 90's & a few minor differences in order to make it a story of the 90's. Very charming version. But, I doubt that it would have been as charming if not for Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan. For a good change, here's a remake of a remake that doesn't bring any surprises, but is really pleasant....
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Summary: A good "Feel Good" movie.
Review: A "Feel Good" movie is a movie that you can watch on a rainy day and feel inside like the sun is fully out. It's a movie where it's not complicated but it flows with a simplicity that is to help relax the mind. And most of all, it's a movie that in the end makes you feel better about yourself and life in general. You've probably seen lots of "Feel Good" movies. Most Disney films are "Feel Good" movies. As are "Forrest Gump", "Working Girl", "Bridget Jones' Diary", "Sleepless in Seattle", and most of your Jane Austen adaptations. "You've Got Mail" definitely earns its spot as a "Feel Good" movie. The people you've grown to love come together to argue, compete in business, deal with impersonal relationships, deal with charming friends, then FINALLY get together in the last few minutes in an endearing moment that will (unless you are of the cynical or realistic nature) leave a smile on your face for the rest of the day. It's not the perfect rom-com (there really isn't any) but it is definitely charming. Recommended
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Summary: One to watch again and again...
Review: A "Must." A wonderfully, entertaining, comedy about love and life. Email turns personal! It CAN happen!
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