wonderful from beginning to end

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2009)

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds really light up the screen in this wonderful film. They have absolute Tracy and Hepburn chemistry. I am so glad this movie has put Bullock back on top because she has earned it. She really shines as a cold-hearted book editor who learns how to love. She finds out she is going to be deported to Canada unless she marries and she blackmails Reynolds into it. He whisks her away to Alaska to meet his loving but eccentric family (Craig T. Nelson and Mary Steenbergen are great as his parents and the wonderful Betty White steals the show as his kooky grandma. Betty is still going strong at 86 and may she have at least fourteen more birthdays). There is a great scene where Bullocks opens up about being so jealous of Reynolds because he has a wonderful family and she has been on her own since she was sixteen. This is a wonderful film that entertains, warms your heart and really makes you think. What more could you ask from a movie? Two big thumbs up.