My favorite of 1998 - simply genial

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 1999)

This is IMHO the best film of the year 1998. I've seen it five times in cinema (during the 2 or 3 weeks it was running). Every scene is very carefully, if not to say genially designed, the film is filled up with wonderful situation jokes (old woman sings rap, a boy-george-like man which weeps because the marriage of his friends is stopped in the last minute, and very very much like that). Drew Barrymore didn't acted like a toy (as she has looked like often before), but like an admirable beautiful young woman here.
The shortest way to describe the movie would be 'Titanic without the disaster' (or with a happy end). The evil rich man which wants to own the girl, the unknown artist which falls in love to the girl, the girl not knowing for a while who of these two she should marry, and the 'historical' environment (even if the eighties are no so far away than the Titanic disaster) - all remembers of Titanic. And even if Adam Sandler surely isn't as handsome as Leonardo DiCaprio (while Drew and Kate are both true beauties), he and Drew acted in the same juvenile, sympathetical, congenial way as Leo and Kate. So there are many analogies between these two movies, while the Wedding Singer is, for me, the better one, with less action but more creativity and fun, more focus on interesting characters and, last not least, the far better music.