Embarrassingly dated and unrealistic

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2015)

That idea that anyone could love a disturbing stalker or fall for someone who has the personality , charisma and sex appeal of a rotten vegetable like Benjamin are just two of the many reasons i find this films enduring celebration hard to understand.
Characters that were naive and easily manipulated one minute become manipulative and conniving the next and vica-versa as often as the contrived story requires.
Iconic as the soundtrack is, i laughed as the song Scarborough Fair played for the 7,000th time.
This film has some quite repugnant messages at its heart and i'm not talking about it encouraging polyamory, adultery or it depicting people wanting more from life than 2.4 children and a house in suburbia; i'm talking about it suggesting you just need to stalk and harass someone until they like you and that if you can force a kiss out of someone well, there yours.
It has aged very badly compared to other 'Classics', it is not timeless it is very much of its time- embarrassingly so.