Unbelievable fairytale still enjoyable

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 1999)

This film has been criticized as being unrealistic and fake. When you think about it, a real-life fairytale is just that, unrealistic, not true to life. If you are jaded you understand that this story of happiness cannot happen within the constraints of our society but we all want something to believe in that, while unattainable, is still grossly appealing and totally distracting from our every day life. This is what this film is, a pleasant diversion. If you see this and recognise it, then you can deal with it and move on. This film is a great piece of fluff, easy to watch time and time again. We all want it even though we cannot have it. Thus we live vicariously through the too beautiful Julia Roberts and have an excellently unreal goodtime.