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My Best Friends's Wedding
I love this movie. I am a helpless romantic and this movie is funny and just that, a romatic comedy. I watch it over and over.Julia and Cameron fit together!!!!!

this movie is awful
One of my roommates was addicted to this horrible movie. In fact, that is when I first watched it. This movie is the story of a coming-up-on-thirty-yet-still-single woman played by Julia Roberts, who gets a call from her old guy friend who tells her that he is marrying a 20-year-old college student in four days. Julia's character then decides to try to stop the wedding altogether, and her character in the process insults the bride to be. A rather interesting and dumb chase scene ensues, along with other stipid hijnks. Then the movie ends-I won't spoil it for you if you like the formula mentioned above. Plusses included the fact that, for once, women who choose to stay home after they marry are not portrayed as idiots, and the gay editor friend. He had some of the best moments in this film. The minuses: the whole premise of this film, which is to destroy a wedding, the beginning of the movie, and the fact that Cameron Diaz's character never bothers to explain WHY she plans on becoming a housewife...she just does, and you get the vibe that she's a pushover. Julia's character comes off as a classeless childish brat throughout this entire film. If you want to see a feminist learning about choices women make, see Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile instead. In that movie, Julia teaches her students about choices and careers, and they teach her some lessons as well. My Best Friend's Wedding is a dumb, pointless, and typical Julia Roberts movie. I'm only giving it two stars for the gay guy. Whoever played him did the best job of acting of the cast.

Rupert Everett is the main attraction
He absolutely steals the movie away from under Julia's feet in this! He's outstanding as Julia's best friend. Although he's a cliché (the elegant, intelligent, witty and cultivated gay man), he emerges as a real person and has some of the best lines and definitely the best scene in the restaurant, where they all sing "I say a little prayer for you". (I can watch this scene over and over and not get fed up!) The music is another plus in the movie, really carefully chosen not just to support the scene but take an active part in the story.

There's not much to hate about this movie. It's one of those very cheery movies, that instantly put a smile on your face. However I HATE the opening credits (as one reviewer before me said, if you hate the opening credits, you'll hate the movie - not true) and I hate Cameron Diaz in this. Hate the hair, hate the look, hate the character, hate the fact she's such a pushover. I also hate the fact you see Julia smoking in this movie, I would have thought she had loads more sense than that, lets hope she's given up for the sake of her unborn twins.

The pacing is great with hardly a slowdown in the entire movie. Those times the movie does lessen the pace for a moment are to showcase a tender moment between Julia & Dermot Mulroney. A particularly bittersweet scene is when Julia & Dermot's characters share an afternoon taking a cruise through Chicago's downtown river. They share a song, a hug and look into each other's eyes and we as the audience wait to see if they profess their true love for each other, but the moment passes as they pass under a bridge and into the shadows and we realize that moments are fleeting and love can be fickle.

Some of the extras on this are pretty inventive for once, when it claims across the cover it's a special edition. Sometimes those can be a total let down. The extras include: new documentary: "Unveiled: The Making of My Best Friend's Wedding"; HBO Making-Of: "On the Set"; Wedding Do's and Don'ts - Helpful Hints for the Soon-to-Be Wed (very funny); My Best Friend's Wedding Album: Behind-the-Scenes Facts and Trivia and "Say a Little Prayer" sing-along.

This is a great movie to be seen, particularly for Rupert Everett. I'm now sad enough to say I want to see The Next Best Thing - he plays a similar character in that. Alongside Madonna, but I can ignore her!

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