Being that I am not the "stick insect" and am more the "Bridget Jones", I have to say ... Yep! I've been there, I've done that ... and even through all my humiliation, I laughed. Thank goodness they made a movie about it! I roared with laughter and felt the tears. But happy endings are possible and not just in the movies. This story is definitely the modernization of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" but is more true to life than the funky "Clueless". Men may not understand all the things women are about, but I bet most will be able to see at least part of Bridget in their girlfriends or wives. Women have long known that their are only two types of men ... the bad boy and the nice boy. The only question is, which do they prefer. I think Bridget has the right idea.
Reviews
3 Reviews
Raising Helen
(2004)
reminiscent of "My Six Loves" with Debbie Reynolds
12 June 2004
This film is very reminiscent of "My Six Loves" with Debbie Reynolds. Cute, warm and funny. It is definitely a chick flick! In fact, in the theater when I viewed the film there was only one gentleman who was accompanying his wife. Most of the crowd was 30 or over, but thought that this would be a wonderful movie for young girls if only to view how Helen had to grow up and learn responsibility, no matter how much her niece would "hate" her.
I must say I wasn't ready for the movie to end. I got caught up in the story of what family is and should be. Joan Cusack did a wonderful job playing the older sister who had never wanted to be the mom figure to her younger sisters but had taken on the job and become the "perfect mom." Her scene in the motel when she had to be the bad guy and break up the prom date that almost went too far was perfect. Every woman in the theater laughed hardily either from the experience of doing the same or once being the girl who's mom had done it to her.
This film will become one of those that I will add to my collection and be sure to watch on those rainy winter Sunday afternoons (Okay maybe a few nice Sundays too ... after all John Corbett is very cute to look at!)
Guys! Chances are you aren't going to like this film all that much.... there isn't any blood and guts... but how do you feel about a nice used lime green Lincoln with low miles? No, I'm not going to explain that one, you will have to watch the film for that!
I must say I wasn't ready for the movie to end. I got caught up in the story of what family is and should be. Joan Cusack did a wonderful job playing the older sister who had never wanted to be the mom figure to her younger sisters but had taken on the job and become the "perfect mom." Her scene in the motel when she had to be the bad guy and break up the prom date that almost went too far was perfect. Every woman in the theater laughed hardily either from the experience of doing the same or once being the girl who's mom had done it to her.
This film will become one of those that I will add to my collection and be sure to watch on those rainy winter Sunday afternoons (Okay maybe a few nice Sundays too ... after all John Corbett is very cute to look at!)
Guys! Chances are you aren't going to like this film all that much.... there isn't any blood and guts... but how do you feel about a nice used lime green Lincoln with low miles? No, I'm not going to explain that one, you will have to watch the film for that!
The Glass Bottom Boat
(1966)
The purist of early 60s silly humor.
7 June 2004
A star-studded cast with the purist of early 60s silly humor. I first saw this movie on an airplane at age 6. It made me laugh then and it still makes me laugh to this day. Dom DeLouise and Paul Lynde are hysterically funny. Doris Day is as Doris as ever and Rod Taylor made a very dashing scientist! I love watching this movie for all the old styles and realizing that they are all back again. The jokes, though simple and harmless, are still humorous today and they were in 1966.
Amazing how silly I though it was to have vacuum that did the cleaning without the assistance of a human. Amazing how they have those now ... a bit smaller that the movie version and I doubt that they would vacuum up a flip flop, but amazing that even a musical romantic comedy of the 60s would foretell us inventions to come.
Dig those computers in this flick! And Dom DeLouise has been known (and seen) to eat many a gourmet item, but a transistor hors d'oeuvres? Silly, but sooooo funny.
Take a trip to the blue room or red room and enjoy this fun film. But be careful, Doris Day just might be spying on you!
Amazing how silly I though it was to have vacuum that did the cleaning without the assistance of a human. Amazing how they have those now ... a bit smaller that the movie version and I doubt that they would vacuum up a flip flop, but amazing that even a musical romantic comedy of the 60s would foretell us inventions to come.
Dig those computers in this flick! And Dom DeLouise has been known (and seen) to eat many a gourmet item, but a transistor hors d'oeuvres? Silly, but sooooo funny.
Take a trip to the blue room or red room and enjoy this fun film. But be careful, Doris Day just might be spying on you!
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