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Will She Get Him Back?
My Best Friend's Wedding is a delightful, lighthearted movie. This is by far my favorite romantic comedy movie. The entire cast is superb. Being a Julia Roberts fan, though, I might be a little bias! If you were to see this movie, though, I'm sure you'd think the same.
This movie has Jules(Julia Roberts)trying desperately to get back her ex-boyfriend and best friend Michael(Michael Mulroney) before he goes and marries this bubbly blonde(Cameron Diaz), while getting help and advice from her good friend(Rupert Everett). Jules makes numerous of devious attempts to win Michael back. She will do anything-and i mean anything-to get him back.
The plot keeps you guessing, while the chemistry between Roberts and Mulroney make for a romantic, hilarious movie. Will Jules get him back? Well you'll just have to watch the movie for that answer.

My Best Friend's Wedding - ***1/2 Stars
The institution of marriage is treated irreverentally from the onset in this romantic comedy, starting with an amusing musical number in which, through the medium of a saccharine song, an anonymous bride advises her bridesmaids and the audience on the best way to catch a husband. We then cut to the predicament of our protagonist: Julianne (Julia Roberts), a commitment-avoiding independent woman of the '90s, believes her best friend Michael ("Kansas City's" Dermot Mulroney) is going to ask her to live up to one of those pacts that movie characters tend to make--in which two friends agree to marry each other if they haven't met anybody else by a certain age. She worries about how to let him down but gets a shock when he instead asks her to fly down for his wedding to his new love, 20-year-old co-ed Kimmy ("Head Above Water's" Cameron Diaz). At this fall-on-the-floor moment, Julianne realizes that she wants to walk down the aisle with Michael, and decides to do whatever she can to break the duo up.
Unfortunately, her match-breaking mischief is not very fun or creative; at one point, she even admits that her ill-intentioned actions were "not even inventive," which seems to be more an apology from scripter Ron Bass than anything else. Mostly, though, the film suffers from a lack of a charismatic leading man. A guy would have to be pretty irresistible to incite a woman to go to such lengths to win him. But Michael is not very exciting and even a little boorish and insensitive.
Roberts and Diaz are both energetically exuberant as the dueling dames, but it's Rupert Everett ("Cemetery Man") who steals the show as Julianne's editor and second-best friend. He tries to help Julianne in her dilemma but becomes roped in as a fake fiance in a plan to make Michael jealous. But, in playful revenge, he creates a colorful persona for this faux beau, one who paws at Julianne and is prone to slap women's derrieres and burst into song. It's a nice surprise, as he's set up to be simply the friend who listens while the exposition is laid out; instead, he winds up chewing the scenery.
Although Everett definitely revivifies the proceedings, it's not quite enough. Because it's not shown what it is about Michael that's so great, there's no tension with regard to the outcome. Still, there are many humorous moments throughout, though some of the more outrageous segments seem too contrivedly wacky.

Death by minibar!
Romantic comedy: Jules Potter (Julia Roberts) hasn't seen her best friend Michael (Dermont Mulroney)in months, but remembers that she made a blood promise with him that they'd marry by the time they were twenty-eight if they weren't already. Three weeks before her twenty-eighth birthday, she gets a mysterious message from him sounding desperate. So she calls him, expecting a proposal. Instead, he announces that he's met a beautiful girl, Kimmy Wallace (Cameron Diaz), and that they're getting married in five days. Jules wants to be happy...but realizes she may love him herself, and with the help of her other best friend, gay editor George Downes (Rupert Everett), sets off to break up the wedding!

MY TAKE: 5 out of 5 This is a cute and very charming movie. It's different--with the main character being the "bad guy" and (spoiler) her not getting the guy--but refreshing. The casting is world-class, and the acting is wonderful. Cameron Diaz is at her best as the beautiful and hyper Kimmy, Julia Roberts is dark but great as the main character/villain, and Rupert Everett is FANTASTIC and charming as George. But my one complaint is that they made George more desirable than Michael! Throughout the movie I had no idea why Jules was crazy for this seemingly wonderful guy when the only nearly romantic part between them is when he gets the wedding ring off of her finger with saliva. But after only five minutes of watching, you'll fall in love with Rupert Everett and be sorry he's gay. I like the ending, even though it's sort of sad, and even though Mulroney's character is boring and less than cute, this is still a great rental.

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