This movie is timeless...

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2005)

I love this movie and have seen it more times than I care to admit. It is a movie that one could easily interchange Billy Crystal with Cary Grant and Meg Ryan with Kate Hepburn, change from color to black & white and it wouldn't skip a beat. And no, I don't think these modern actors compare with the past ones, it is the classiness, wit and dialogue of this movie that is the comparison.
This movie just feels like home to me for some reason. Billy Crystal did a superb job in this flick as a chauvinistic jerk-love me I'm really funny type of guy and Meg Ryan did very well playing the naive-wait a minute I'll kick your butt with my girl power/or wait, I'm a scared little girl part. Meg did this film right at the perfect moment in not only her career, but the age she was when she did it.....I bring up age because she was right at that point of understanding the world, but still having a distinct sweetness in spite of it.....now she seems like an angry short guy with a really cute nose. Billy did this film right at the point when he understood how to act and hits his part perfect.....seems like an odd pairing these two, but it actually worked perfect. Rob Schneider was perfect directing this film in he put in his genius at the right places and let the actors be themselves in other parts.....Nora Ephron wrote this as well as "Sleepless In Seattle" & "You've Got Mail" which are both accommodating movies indeed, but When Harry Met Sally is "The Matrix" and the other two are .... you get what I mean.
Anyhow, you do not have to be a fan of Meg or Billy or Schneider or Nora to even like this movie.....it's the kind of movie that taps you on the shoulder when you're in a daze thinking and makes you feel warm and fuzzy from the touch.
Oh, and one other thing.....there are stories told by much older couples about how they met injected throughout the movie that are priceless little gems. Oh, and one more thing......watch for President Gerald Fords' son in the movie as just a side tidbit....hint: he used to be friends with Billys' character. Enjoy.