Capra, Allen, Cosmo

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2013)

If you're going to like this, it will basically come down to a few things.
Do you like Capra and old Hollywood? Which is to say, do you cherish movies where we can pretend that people are struggling in the real world, while knowing every step of the way they're falling in love in a movie? And that life ought to work a bit like this, love as unpredictable fate.
Do you not mind Woody Allen? Enough to accept the roundly toned-down narrative tricks, neurosis, cynical wit as disillusioned truth and reference to other movies as blueprint for life, in our case (linking back to #1) Casablanca. (if you like Allen too much, this will grate as second-rate compromise)
Can you still stomach Allen's movie image of the cute, jazzy New York?
Do you watch endless reruns of Friends, just because of the cozy mood?
Can you kid yourself for a while that Cosmo blurbs can substitute for relationship insights?
None of it means you are a bad person. You just want from time to time some comfort food for the eyes. So if half of those are true, Rob Reiner has prepared for you this sticky-sweet film from Nora Ephron's smart recipe, much better than Ephron's own with Hanks and Ryan, Sleepless and You've Got Mail.