My Mom's New Boyfriend

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with Tommy Lucero (Antonio Banderas) being caught by French police following a foiled robbery at a museum. Tommy seems confident he will not remain in police custody very long.
The film then shifts its focus to Henry Durand (Colin Hanks). Henry had to care for his mother, Marty (Meg Ryan), when his father died in jail. Now a grown man and an FBI agent, Henry leaves his overweight mother to go work on a case.
Upon returning three years later, he finds his mother has lost a considerable amount of weight and is dating several men, one half her age, having turned over a new leaf after a passerby dropped a coin in her coffee cup, mistaking her for a homeless person. Henry announces to his mother that he has recently become engaged to another FBI agent, Emily (Selma Blair). Henry finds himself in a very uneasy state with his newly transformed mother and begins to be extremely protective about her. He confides his worries in his fiancée who does not find anything unusual in Marty's behavior.
While taking a walk with Henry and Emily, Marty is hit in the head by a toy helicopter being flown by Tommy. Tommy asks to take the trio to dinner at an old Albanian restaurant as an apology. Henry, who is still protective of his mother, grudgingly concedes to go when he notices how much his mother and Emily want to.
Romance sparks between Marty and Tommy. Henry, meanwhile, is informed by his FBI superiors that they expect Tommy and two accomplices are going to attempt to steal a sculpture currently on display at a local museum. Along with his fellow agents, Henry spies on his mother around the clock, albeit reluctantly, after the FBI chief implied that he may be shipped to Alaska if he doesn't cooperate. Many uncomfortable situations arise for Henry as he has to listen into the conversations his mother has with Tommy.
While stealing the sculpture, Tommy is betrayed by his gang members and shot twice in the chest. He survives due to wearing a ballistic vest, but is later caught by Henry and Emily. Tommy reveals to them that his real name is Tomas Martinez and he is with the CIA. He has been working undercover trying to apprehend a gang of thieves who are stealing art to fund terrorism. He is concerned the gang will attempt to kill Marty as they know he has been romantically involved with her and she may know about their operation.
The trio reaches the Durand house in time to rescue Marty from the gang. The film ends with the gang members being taken into custody while Tommy kisses Marty and Henry kisses Emily.

Tags: romantic

Review:
(And insulting their looks just makes YOU look petty and stupid.)That said, this movie was mildly entertaining, not offensive, and had a few chuckles.
Past the time quite nicely, but what with it being something of a comeback for Meg Ryan I guess people will be expecting quite a lot ...Well, Ryan is good, but she's still just Meg Ryan.
People talk of her being one of the leading ladies of romantic comedy, but when compared to the likes of Cameron Diaz, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and even Catherine Zeta Jones, I always question her 'greatness'.
Just look at the physical comedy: it always seems forced and at the very least placed and safe, she's just not as free to do anything and to look really silly, say like Bullock or Diaz often do in this genre.Banderas is his usual sexy and funny self, he is great in rom coms, tongue wedged firmly in cheek, bringing all the fun and frolics he gets up to voicing Puss In Boots in the Shrek films to his physical self here ...
great fun.Colin Hanks is good as the worrying son of Ryan.
It's kinda a little weird seeing him in this role, after Ryan's famous partnering on screen with his father Tom Hanks, but he pulls it off well, and you get a sense of his predicament ...
I don't need rules to be changed up all the time in every genre, but when you have a good premise and actors totally able to pull of some great pysical comedy, then switch to romance (Banderas, Hanks & Blair I'm talking about) it's just a shame not to utilize that.A 6/10 from me.
Yes, most of the time a disaster is meant to happen because the industry has ran out of ideas and thus people have lost the faith in romantic comedies; but this isn't an excuse for writing reviews that sometimes indicate that critics may not have seen the film or that talk more about Meg Ryan's surgery than her performance.
"My mom's new boyfriend" stars Ryan as Marty, the mother of Henry (Colin Hanks), an FBI agent, and a woman who was once extremely fat but now when Henry comes back from a very long work trip, is completely unrecognizable.
I don't know what surgeries everyone mention, but the woman Henry sees by the pool is very hot and I guess that's why a mysterious art thief (Antonio Banderas) falls for her.I don't know why anyone would enter this film badly predisposed.
Firstly, It has Meg Ryan, eternal queen of romantic comedies.
Take in consideration it's not a great movie (which romantic comedy is these days; I can accept that) and I knew nothing about its director George Gallo, who also wrote it.
The key word here is 'uncompromised', because "My mom's new boyfriend" doesn't break into new ground of the classic formulas or contains many laughable jokes (there were two or three times I truly laughed, though), but that's not where you should look.Maybe it's too convenient, but it's as if Gallo knew that romantic comedies are taken less seriously these days, so he provides a direction that is not safe (that would be a disaster), which is what someone would do to secure a hit, but it's definitely pleasing.
"My mom's new boyfriend" is short, but in its duration finds time to construct its characters and establish their personalities by giving each one of them interesting things to say.
I've already learned to let myself go and forgive minimal trespasses in occasions; but I'm writing objectively, and I'm writing the truth."My mom's new boyfriend" is a good romantic comedy.
Unfortunately, "My Mom's New Boyfriend" falls way below the grade and fails even at being mildly amusing.First, it isn't necessary for a movie like this to be smart or particularly realistic, but it should have some integrity so that we can actually believe in the characters.
Here, in the prologue, we see Henry Durand (Colin Hanks), who clearly has a close relationship with his Mom, Marty (Meg Ryan), leaving home and Mom behind to start a job with the FBI.
Actually, the only genuinely funny performance in the film is from Trevor Morgan, in a small part as a young stud Ryan dates.The film piles bad jokes one on top of the other and beats to death what wasn't particularly funny the first time -- the Italian chef who pines for Marty, the FBI agents' jokes about how hot Marty supposedly is, etc.
The plot about the Mum (Meg Ryan) whose son is in the FBI (Colin Hanks - who here acts as though he has a large plank inserted right up him especially in his scenes with Selma Blair) - starts with Meg Ryan losing 200lbs of fugliness suddenly becomes beautiful wealthy vivacious and sexy, much to the son's embarrassment, is just tooo much.
- I suggest anyone would be just plain insulted by the lack of anything construing the most basic brain food here - there ain't one smart line or original scene - it truly is neither comedy or romance.The only positive is that this is totally harmless and won't offend,but it won't entertain either, it really is lobotomy food...This is seriously one of the turkeys of the year and deserves to not only go straight to DVD but straight into the DVD bin...Does no-one's careers (Especially Hanks) any favours ...
Meg Ryan's worst movie!.
i think this is the worst of Meg Ryan's movies, i'm really a big fan of her, she's one of the most gorgeous actress in Cinema, and she'll always be the queen of romantic comedy, and i liked most of her choices in the past, even the not so-good movies of her , she was able to make them worthy watching, but this film is just bad in every possible way?!it's boring, not funny, flat and predictable .
nothing in this movie is interesting nor original, it's not comedy, not romantic, not thriller and not action.
My Mom's New Boyfriend is one of that movies which is very difficult to write about because their elements are not bad but they are not particularly good either so,there is not too much to talk about.My Mom's New Boyfriend is an average comedy and I had a good time watching it...but the experience is completely forgettable.The actors are good on their roles.Meg Ryan,Antonio Banderas,Colin Hanks and Selma Blair bring decent performances,although they do not have too much to do.As I said at the beginning of this commentary,there is not much to talk about this movie.My Mom's New Boyfriend is a mediocre but entertaining comedy.I would recommend to watch it on DVD if there are not any other options..
I can't believe Meg Ryan's performance and Banderas' too.
Can't understand how Meg Ryan accepted to participate on it.Haven't seen Meg Ryan and Antonio Banderas in good movies for the past...4 years I think.Fell asleep 15 minutes after it started.
No plot, no script, no sense.By the way Meg Ryan's makeover went really bad.
How sad.Avoid this movie at all cost, it's an awful waste of money and time..
first things first: Colin Hanks, as well as his character Henry Durand should have not been part of this feature; the character is way to stereotypical,i kept having such thoughts as "what a moron!" throwout the whole movie; the "actor" is probably one of the worst i have seen lately.
Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan and Selma Blair do all the work and bring the real laughs, sympathy and charm.
Colin Hanks is one of the worst miss-casts i have seen in some time, and because of that the movie suffers.
another dumb scene would be the one having 30 or so FBI agents briefed on a possible theft of a statue(30...heh...give me a break)but once passing the "fat" Meg Ryan and getting the "regular" sized one, things picked up for me))) she and Antonio Banderas are interesting and fun to watch , a whole different approach as compared with "the assassin".
the Albanian family is the funniest "gig" i think.well my score would 6 and that mostly because Antonio Banderas is in great shape, even if comedies are not really his domain.Meg Ryan is good too but towards end her character has nothing original to offer, too stereotypical..
I was expecting more of this movie...A cast with Meg Ryan, and Antonio Banderas in it can do only good and it did but not quite as I expected.
Colin Hanks was OK, Meg Ryan was good and Banderas was average.
I don't know why but Banderas seemed a little fake in some parts, he had extra-use for his charm and that's not quite good in a comedy.
My personal rating would be 8/10 as though I criticize it a lot it's not bad it's just not as good as I'd like to get from this cast..
That said, I do like some quality of acting or comedy, e.g. 4 Weddings, Music & Lyrics, Bridget Jones, Notting Hill, Love Actually (oh god...
About a third of the way through this terrible terrible film I started to look for at least one thing that I could identify as not annoying or not just plain stupid.
This movie will not disappoint Banderas or Ryan fans.
I haven't any good or say, better, movies the two leads act in..
i don,t understand at all what has to do Albanian restaurant with Arabic music,,i saw the scene when they were in sk Albanian restaurant and the only thing Albanian there was the flag,,nothing else,,albaniens does nor have bellydancers in their places,,but i guess ,,someone when wanna make fool of albaniens did payed a lot of money to mix Albanian people with middle easy people,,probably it was Russians or Serbs who payed those money to George gallo for mixing albaniens with Arabic people,,nothing wrong ,,people are all same everywhere,,good or bad,,but AL least when you try to make something Albanian,,make that in right way,,not only lies there,,as an Albanian,,i feel humiliated by that horrible music,,pretending to be Albanian music,,but it was not Albanian AT all.
If you love Meg Ryan, there are many things to enjoy and appreciate about this film: seeing Meg at the beginning in a very realistic fat-suit -- so funny!
It's fun (after the romantic roles Meg and Tom have shared) to see Tom Hanks's talented son, Colin, playing Meg's on-screen son, too!
-- One negative thing, however comical it was meant to be, though, was the merciless teasing and sexual innuendo directed toward Colin's character when his FBI job forces him to conduct surveillance on his own mother, even while she was becoming romantically involved with Antonio's character; suggested incestuous feelings just don't sit right with me, and many others, I would imagine, so that type of humor is lost on me.
But the film is worth it all for the great acting, including Selma Blair as Colin's fiancée..
It was cute, like most of Meg Ryans movies.
Meg Ryan movies are like home made chicken soup, you are always left feeling good.
(Check the guy out in Mean Creek and Brotherhood - best thing about those movies too!) Selma Blair is underused and the mother/son relationship between Ryan and Hanks is not quite believable.
There are some laughing moments but for a comedy this lacks the spark that would expect from a Meg Ryan work.
Antonio Banderas does what he normally does in a movie like this and the relationship between Hanks/Blair's characters is even more awkward-unbelievable.
There are no good comedies, all were so plain or maybe already seen in different films.
So within them, two cops and a thief, how the events turn out, especially how it affect their romance was told in the remaining part.I have not seen Meg Ryan for a long time, though this is nearly a decade old film that I watched now.
The others like Antonio Banderas was not bad, including Colin Hanks and Selma Blair.
Next time the writer and director decide to do another movie maybe they should get informed, read a little or hire a person who knows what the heck they're talking about.
Antonio Banderas looks like he wasn't even trying in this movie.
Henry Durand (Colin Hanks) is an FBI agent who leaves home and his fat lethargic mother Martha (Meg Ryan).
Later Henry finds out that Tommy is an art thief in town to steal a priceless sculpture.Even though it's technically possible for Meg Ryan to be Colin Hanks' mother, she just don't look like it.
Colin Hanks failed to deliver the goods thereby the movie doesn't quite register an impact.
On the one had I expected something downright awful given what I'd heard but on the other hand how bad could it be if it's got Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks and Selma Blair?
Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks and Selma Blair are solid.
I enjoyed watching Kolin Hanks in this movie.
The movie left me with impression that Meg acts with a thought in her mind "hey!
Could have been one of the better romantic comedies, marquee actors, a somewhat clever story line and a stock but well played plot twist at the end.
Could have been, but wasn't because Meg Ryan is a one woman wrecking crew from beginning to end.
As bad as the Marty Durand character was, Meg Ryan playing her only made her more unbearable.
Meg Ryan, looked like a cross between Joan Rivers and Jack Nicholson, as the Joker, and it was hard to relate to her wacky character who seemed to be on speed, crank, or something.There where some funny parts and Colin Hanks played his part well I thought, though casting Meg Ryan as his mother felt unnatural to me.Antonio Banderas played the same character he plays in all movies he stars in, with emphasis on his looks and accent and no consideration for his acting, which was only his average, not exceptional.One of the high points of the movie for me was seeing Selma Blair, who I have admittedly have a small crush on since I first saw her in Legally Blond.
Though I thought that she did not have a large enough part in this movie to really judge her acting.The movie has a surprise ending, that actually caught me off guard, and that is a good thing in my opinion.All in all, this movie was worth watching and I felt that the money I spent was not wasted, but, don't watch this expecting to use your brain at all or you might be disappointed..
This film is about a beautiful mother, whose son is in the FBI, falling in love with an international art thief.Initially I found the sound effects that accompany scene changes annoying.
Meg Ryan looks so young and beautiful, and she is so unconvincing as a mother.
her part could have been played by anybody.It's kind of scary when Meg Ryan smiles (her face is a disaster, but her lips are freaky) but other than that she looks good and can still pull off her Megness like no one else.
Meg's still got it and Antonia doesn't seem like he's going to lose it any time soon.It was a pleasant surprise to see how good Antonio looks.
The real problem with this movie is the casting of Meg Ryan who looks ridiculously young to be mother to the FBI agent who's obviously not a novice at the job so's been in it some time.
Perhaps Ms Ryan really is old enough in which case she certainly looks fabulous - but I think she looks unreal in this part.We didn't need a Mom who's acting like a teenager.
The movie's worth watching once if you've time to fill..
Enjoyable, at time a bit silly, nicely acted & made comedy...
This type movie was a staple on movie screens until about 30 or so years ago.Antonio Bandares stars along with Meg Ryan.
Marty, who falls hard for Tommy, is not aware of his real occupation, but Henry really suspects the real reason behind his mother's boyfriend for being in town.George Gallo, who wrote and directed this film, was behind another movie that involved art, "Local Color", which was more successful.
The cast seemed to be the only thing going for the picture, or perhaps our only reason for watching it.Meg Ryan, who was away from making movies for a while, reemerges with a new look with the help of some cosmetic procedures she must have undergone.
But since then she underwent plastic surgery and by god does it really show in this unfunny movie.She plays Marty a woman who's son(played by her bff 's son Colin Hanks who is Tom Hanks son btw) happens to be working for the CIA but of course she meets a handsome man named Tommy (played by Puss In Boots and Zorro himself Antonio Banderas) who is stealing a valuable statue in an Art gallery and its up to Ryan's charcther's son to stop him.
After watching all of it I concluded that it is better than many of the poor reviews say it is.Meg Ryan is Marty Durand, a middle aged mom of one who has sort of let herself go.
Marty is frumpy and badly overweight.Marty does have a fine son, Colin Hanks as Henry Durand, who also happens to be an up-and-coming FBI agent.
This is her wake-up call that she looks like a vagrant and she heads towards a better lifestyle.The movie picks up 3 years later, when Henry comes home and finds this strange woman in his back yard, lounging beside a pool they didn't have before.
the movie lacked a sense of excitement and it seemed too predictable and the only unpredictable thing was the fact that Banderas was a secret agent the movie did not deliver as a funny movie but some times it was humorous but nothing too hilarious.