More of A Good Romantic Movie Than A Comedy

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2009)

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I have read the negative reviews and I agree with most of the comments, made, but I still love this movie.
This movie has a (somewhat) ground breaking premise of a famous and very attractive movie star getting involved with a person of no fame and no notoriety. It seems like a logical choice of movie scripts for Julia Roberts, considering Julia's prior marriage to Lyle Lovitt. The movie goes on about the conflicts that cause this couple to stay apart. In that sense it is not very funny and I agree with those people that critique it on its lack of humor. This series of conflicts cause the movie to drag on in a serious, un-entertaining way.
However, the character Spike tends to add tremendous comedy to most of the scenes that involve him, so it does not drag too much.
After all of the conflict, the movie suddenly focuses in on one of Julia's lines, regarding the issue of a famous movie actress wanting to be involved with a not so famous man.
This fame thing is just an illusion, well, what you really have here "is a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her." It was a very powerful line if it stood by itself, but then it gets repeated later on, which they did not need to do.
The ending was powerful also, but the music messed it up, as they used the song "She" by Elvis Costello for the climax. Nonetheless, still a powerful ending showing that the famous and the not so famous can be together.
I give the movie 9 stars. I have watched the ending of this movie a dozen or more times, sort of ignoring the the repeating of Julia's line and ignoring climactic song "She" and just watching the actions on the screen.