When Harry Met Sally review

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2019)

Nora Ephron's characters are deep and real but the movie in its entirety felt shallow and that it had no real purpose. It was too casual and the pace of the movie was like that of a trailer. The dialogue, though, was quick and very quotable, most of them coming from Billy Crystal's character Harry.
Harry and Sally both live in New York and it feels like the exact same NYC I've seen countless of times before, most notable in the TV show Friends. This is why I think this movie has no girth: it feels like a sitcom. No, there are no slapstick bits but the organization of the movie (jumping in time in 5 year intervals) felt like the lives of these characters were as loose as that of any sitcom characters.
I never thought for once that Harry was insightful, just pretentious, and that Sally was never cautious, just a prune. Harry says Sally is the type of person who thinks they are low maintenance but is actually high maintenance. The truth is, both are low maintenance and both exhibit nothing special about two people who fall in love. It's ironic that they reference Casablanca, because in that movie, love is rare, too precious to have, and a luxury. When Harry Met Sally treats love like a magazine: seemingly scandalous yet asking for all the attention. Cheesy outtake of married couples being interviewed? No thanks, I rather have TLC on my TV.
As a whole, it's a watchable movie, though nothing re-watchable. Billy Crystal is great and so is Meg Ryan. It is a real disappointment the end result had no weight in my mind.