Critic Reviews

• Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

  With its clotted script, art direction that's all splash and no style, and dialogue that's too nakedly calculated to facilitate identification), this tedious and confused movie points several characters in obvious directions.

• Leonard Klady, Variety

  A tired piece of romantic cornball fare that harks back to a bygone era, the film is a badly conceived, poorly executed fairy tale guaranteed to make audiences squirm in their seats.

• Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times

  Tripplehorn and McDermott are likable enough in their roles, but Holzman's precious, overwritten script gives them few genuinely honest moments.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  Here is the most tiresome and affected movie in many a moon, a 114-minute demonstration of the Idiot Plot, in which everything could be solved with a few well-chosen words that are never spoken.

• Andy Seiler, USA Today

  A fragmentary and amateurish fairy tale.

• Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

  Tripplehorn and McDermott don't look as if they belong together and aren't strong enough actors to overcome their physical incompatibility. So there's no sense of urgency about them getting together.

• Rob Nelson, Boston Phoenix

  Bad romantic comedies with sappy characters aren't always without merit, since we cynics can at least use them to further our conviction that love isn't worth the trouble. But this bad romantic comedy is merely bad.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Graceless star Tripplehorn -- who's called upon to execute a painful series of pratfalls in a high-tech restaurant -- is not a natural comedian, and overall the movie is awkward and leaden.

• Leonard Schwarz, Palo Alto Weekly

  The film's real irony is that Gwen and Nick are so annoying that they deserve each other.

• Clint Morris, Moviehole

  The end credits couldn't have come any sooner

• Leslie Rigoulot, Film Scouts

  This is a fluffy, delightful romantic comedy in the same vein as Sleepless in Seattle.

• Scott Renshaw, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  The fatal flaw comes with the casting of the romantic leads, and for once the problem isn't that they don't belong together. You're just not likely to care one way or the other.

• Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWire

  It is so poorly executed that if you didn't know going in that these two were supposed to meet, you'd never figure out what the movie is about.

• Barbara Shulgasser, San Francisco Examiner

  Even if they never met, nothing about this movie would be different except the last two or three minutes. Not exactly a ringing example of great writing or involving direction.

• James Sanford, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  pure plastic, flat and transparent. All involved were all too obviously aiming for another ``Sleepless In Seattle,'' but what they've produced is a cinematic siesta.

• Guy MacPherson, Apollo Guide

  A big waste of time.

• Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

  Like most episodic tales, some episodes are better than others; but even the good ones aren't as fully developed as they might be.

• Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

  With dialog like this why did the producers go forward with this project? The movie needs a rewrite and a new director.

• Alison Macor, Austin Chronicle

  This film is as messy as its lead character Gwen's (Tripplehorn) personal life.

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