Laws of Attraction

Laws of Attraction

“Laws of attraction” is based on a current romantic comedy, with a fairly amusing plot, which mixes competition but also lots of love.
Set in New York, “Laws of attraction” tells the story of Audrey Woods and Daniel Rafferty, two high-powered divorce attorneys who will fight in court; However something more than business will come up between them.

The role of Audrey is played by Julianne Moore. She is impeccably dressed and formal and always practises law strictly by the book. Her confidant is Sara, her mother, who is most of the time obsessed with cosmetic surgery and always gives her daughter pieces of advice on how to deal with men. Pierce Brosnan (Mr. Rafferty) gives a superb performance of a clever, scruffy man who often uses underhand tactics and always manages to win. But the two of them have something in common – they have both the best career and none of them has never lost a case.

Soon, they have to face each other in court, trying to defend opposite sides of a public divorce between a crazy rock star and a fashion designer. The case is focused on an Irish castle that the two clients want for themselves. Audrey and Daniel need to travel to Ireland to get some evidence. Once there, Woods and Rafferty find themselves at a romantic Irish festival. After a night full of fun and drinks, they wake up the next morning as husband and wife. They must return to New York to go on with the case and to start a new way of life as a married couple, in which they don’t know what love is… Could they finally discover it…?
Well directed by Peter Howitt, he has opened an interesting discussion between business and love. The good performance of the main actors and cast has made this film entertaining, romantic and funny.

I found the plot rather enjoyable and I can thoroughly recommend it to people who like beautiful stories about love.

The Terminal

The Terminal

It can be surprising, but The Terminal (2004) is not just another blockbuster by the American director Steven Spielberg. Starred by Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones, the film is based on the true life story of Merhan Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who has been living at Charles de Gaulle airport (Paris) since 1988.

The plot centres on the story of Victor Navorski (Tom Hanks), who is a citizen from the fictional East European country of Krakozhia. Mr. Navorski lands at JFK airport of New York and he tries to go through passport control. However, the immigration authorities do not allow him to leave the airport because a civil war has started in Krakozhia in the course of his flight. Thus, the USA does not recognize the new government of his country and the validity of his visa. This is the reason why Mr. Navorski has to live in the airport.

The film is a fable that shows how bureaucracy can make people’s lives more difficult. It also shows other aspects of life, combining drama, romance and comedy. It can make you cry and, five minutes later, laugh.

In my opinion, The Terminal is an amusing and captivating film. It is true that the plot is not original since there is a previous film that tells the story of Merhan Nasseri. However, it seems completely different from most other films. I would like to highlight the excellent performance of Tom Hanks. My only reservation about this film is the ending. From my point of view, the ending is disappointing because there is not a conclusion or a moral. Despite this, it’s well worth seeing and I highly recommend it.

Meet the Fockers: A Clash Of Cultures

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Fockers is a comedy directed by Jay Roach in 2004. It is the sequel of another film called Meet the Parents, where the happy couple, meet Pam’s parents creating a lot a funny situations. This film has a very good cast with very well-known actors like Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand or Ben Stiller.

Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo) are still planning their future engagement and in this film they are going to meet Greg’s parents, an atypical couple who live in Florida. Greg’s mother, Roz (Barbra Streisand), is a sexual therapist, while his father, Bernie (Dustin Hoffman), is a househusband who gave up working as a lawyer when Greg was born.

Pam’s family are going to visit them there in a caravan and they will take their cat with them, what will be a problem because the Focker family own a sex obsessed dog. Because of those animals they will live very funny situations. Those families are very different and that is why they will have such quantity of problems. The Focker family is very proud of their son, and they have always given him a lot of love and they even have built a wall for Greg’s trophies. However, the Byrne family, especially Jack (Robert De Niro), think that the best way to bring up a child is by talking to him as if he were an adult and being hard and severe.

To sum up, I have to say that I have enjoyed this film very much because it is a very funny comedy which has made me laugh a lot. This film is in my opinion a bit better than the first and I will recommend it to everybody who wants to a have a good time watching a good comedy.

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite is a high school film directed by Jared Hess and produced by Jeremy Conn, Chris Wyatt and Sean C. Covel in 2004. The film lasts 86 minutes. John Heder (Napoleon) plays the leading role. The premier in Spain was on the 25th February 2005 and in the United States of America on the 11th June 2004. It was released in DVD on the 26th April 2005.

Napoleon Dynamite is the story of an American teenager. Although his life is not enviable at all -he is bullied at school and there is a lack of affection at his home- Napoleon does not seem to be affected by it and goes on with his life trying to do his best to help people around him. He lives with his grandmother, who does not care about her grandchildren and is always with her friends having a good time, and his elder brother, who is lazy, simple-minded and unemployed. One day his grandmother has an accident and she has to be in hospital for some months, so his uncle comes to live with them but he does not help a lot. Napoleon has a new friend, Pedro who is rejected by the most popular girl at school, so in revenge, Napoleon decides to help Pedro to beat this girl in the election for the Student Body President.

Despite its audacity, imagination, and relentless innovation, we are used to and bored by stories about successful American teenagers. The development of the plot is very slow and we get bored to tears. People spend the second part of the film wondering when it is going to finish. It is an occasionally amusing film whose only good feature is the performance of the actors, who manage to make it a bit credible.

If you are thinking of going to see this film, do not expect a brilliantly inventive or an emotionally powerful story because it is a big let-down from start to end. Just watch it and go home thinking about your plans for the next weekend. It is a waste of time and money. In a word, it is eminently forgettable!!

Bridget Jones: The edge of reason

Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones, the typical single woman in her thirties, unlucky with men, who is a little bit fat and lives obsessed with finding a boyfriend, seems quite happy in this sequel of ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ entitled ‘Bridget Jones: The edge of reason’.

This film,directed by Beeban Kidron, is based on Helen Fielding’s book by the same title. The story is set in London and deals with the girl I’ve mentioned before, Bridget, who is very happy with her brilliant boyfriend, Mark Darcy, a successful lawyer. The starring role is played by Renée Zellweger and there are also other successful actors like Hugh Grant or Colin Firth.

The film starts when Bridget has to go to her parents’ house at Christmas; then she starts to tell us what is happening in her life now: she has a job in television: she works as a TV reporter and she seems quite hapy with her boyfriend but on the other hand she isn’t confident at all because she thinks that Mark, her boyfriend, is ashamed of her.

Among all the mishaps Bridget has in the story, it’s important to mention that she comes across an exboyfriend, Daniel Cleaver, who is very conceited and really dishonest; and also it’s important to emphasize that Bridget thinks her relationship is going to be over because Mark has a very atrractive secretary, so Bridget is jealous of her, among other things.

Bridget come across Daniel while she is working: Daniel has a TV programme about travelling which is very successful and Bridget’s boss tells her to do this programme with Daniel. At first, Bridget refuses to do it, but then she has no other choice, so she has to go to Thailand with Daniel Cleaver to film the programme.
Before going to Thailand, Bridget has a lot of arguments with Mark, mainly because he doesn’t want to marry her, so they decide to split up: Bridget goes to Thailand wtih no boyfriend…
Being in Thailand she decides to do whatever she wants and she has a little affair with Daniel.
When they are coming back from Thailand, in the airport , some drugs are found in Bridget`s suitcases, so the police don’t allow her to leave the country. She is sent to prison for about two weeks but surprisingly Mark (her ex-boyfriend who was a really brilliant lawyer) goes to Thailand and takes her out of prison.
After all these events, who do you think will be Bridget’s true love? Or will she end up alone?

To conclude I would like to comment specifically on the soundtrack of the film. I think it is splendid because it is a mixture of well-known songs. It is also remarkable the acting of all the cast, specially Renée Zellweger.

I thoroughly recommend it because I’ve enjoyed it a lot, and if you like romantic comedies, this is your film. Don`t miss it!

As Good As It Gets

As Good as it Gets

This film tells a sentimental love story with a comic character (a comedy-romance). The screen-play is very good, although predictable and the soundtrack isn’t the most popular. I don’t remember any special effects.

The story takes place in an American city where the starring role is played by Jack Nicholson who is a neurotic writer that throws his neighbour’s dog into the bin, goes for a walk taking care not to step on the lines of the street and sidewalks, and uses new cuttlery every time he has lunch.
Helen Hunt, the supporting character, is an easy-going young woman whose son is ill. She works very hard in order to get the money to pay the doctor and for the medicine his son needs. She’s a waitress.
Greg Kinnear, the male supporting character, is a painter and Jack’s neighbour. Jack hates him because he is homosexual.

The film is about an obsessive person who has to have lunch every day at the same place, a restaurant where Helen works as a waitress. One day, Helen leaves her job because she must take care of her son, who is ill, and Jack, who needs the same waitress (Helen) every day, goes to look for her. When he finds her, he tells her that he will pay for a private doctor for her son if she returns to the restaurant. So, she feels very grateful and comes back. Then, when he begs her to make a trip with him she accepts because she thinks she is in debt with him. Jack has to drive his neighbour to his parent’s home so that he can get some money because he had been sacked.

Finally, although the painter doesn’t get the money he needed, the writer and the waitress fall in love and Jack, who didn’t like visiting the psychiatrist’s surgery and taking pills for his mental illness, decides to begin a new life and do all those things to get better. Love has won.

In my opinion, this is a funny and sentimental film which I would recommend to everybody who wants to spend a good and relaxing time. It’s a highly entertaining film.

Love Actually

Love actually

Sweet, extremely charming and plenty of amusing moments, “Love Actually” is one of the best romantic comedies in the last years.

Directed and written by Richard Curtis, ” Love Actually” is a delightful comedy set in London with about twenty leading roles properly played by a whole cast of talented actors, most of them, big stars.

The start and the end of the film take place at Heathrow, the most important airport in London at Christmas time. The plot is about nine different stories with one thing in common: Love. But not only the typical cloying love between a couple but also the love between siblings, friends, parents and children ( not always with a happy ending) and obviously romantic love that let the director prove the tittle of the main song of the soundtrack: “love is all around”

Well-acted by a cast that includes Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister who falls in love with his new secretary, Emma Thompson as his sister, a perfect housekeeper with marital problems or the role of the heart-broken writer played by Colin Firth, ” Love Actually” will make you smile and maybe cry because this film definetily touches your heart. Don´t miss it!!!!

Laws of Attraction

Laws of Attraction

The film is directed by Peter Howitt. The main stars are Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan and it is set in New York.

Laws of attraction is an hour long film with a plot that is realistic and romantic at the same time. It is about two lawyers in a case of famous stars finding themselves loving each other out of court and hating each other in court.

The film is about two divorce lawyers, Audrey Woods and Daniel Raffery, who like each other but in court hate each other as they both want to win the case. She is very strict and always goes by the book while he is much more easy-going. She is very smart, her mother works for a popular newspaper, always thinking in cosmetic surgery and advising her daugther with her love life, and he is the tipycal guy who doesn’t care too much about his appearence but all women love. The only thing that they have in common is that they both have to be the best lawyers in town no matter their own lives, knowing that they are very attracted to each other.

When they think it is all over, both of them get involved in a public divorce between a rock star and a fashion designer. The bone of contention is an Irish castle of three million dollars that both future divorcees want for themselves. Both lawyers have to go to Ireland to chase down the servants. In Ireland they meet and get lost during the night, they spend the night in the caravan where it is very clear that they like each other but work is work for her.
They arrive at the castle finding themselves in a romantic Irish festival. After a night of drinking and having fun, Audrey and Daniel wake up as husband and wife. She is not happy about it but it is the best for both of them as they have a public case. They decide to live in her flat but in separate rooms until the case is over. Everything goes fine until they get to court where he wins the case because he finds a note from Audrey´s client saying that the star has another castle for his lover and the loving lawyers decide to split.

Again Audrey and Daniel have to go to Ireland as the clients are in the Irish castle and they shouldn’t be there until the case is closed. Once there they discover that they are not married and the clients, now back together again, try to help them to get off with each other.
Finally Audrey and Daniel get married as they can’t live apart from each other.

The film is quite funny and it is a girly film to watch in Sunday afternoon. The plot can happen in real life, and the acting is quite good. I like the two actors because they work quite well together being opposites at work and very attracted to each other in their love lives.

I recommend this film for lovers, romantics and fans of Pierce Brosnan.

In Good Company

In good company

In Good Company is a worldwide known comedy film directed by Paul Weitz. Released in 2004 and set in New York, it’s a masterpiece of its genre. Dennis Quaid plays the starring role, Dan Foreman who is a prestigious executive in a company; Scarlett Johansson plays the role of Alex, Dan’s eldest daughter, and finally the actor who plays the part of Carter Duryea is Topher Grace.

Dan Foreman, 51, is the director of the publicity department in a sports magazine, Sports America. He leads a perfect life with his two daughters and his wife, who is pregnant. As well as this, he gets on really well with everybody at work. But everything changes when a huge corporation buys the company he works for and he’s forced to replace his actual job for a worse one. The worst thing about it is that his new boss, Carter Duryea, is 20 years younger than him. In spite of his youth, this man is an ambitious and promising executive who is trying to achieve his goal. The relations between these two men grow tenser when Dan finds out that his eldest daughter, Alex who is 18, is having an affair with Carter…

This film is a high quality production since it’s full of realistic dialogues and contains lots of amusing parts. The film stars give a superb performance which makes the film ever more entertaining. Furthermore it shows the ups and downs of the business life which makes us realise that not everything is perfect.

From my point of view, In Good Company is a film with which you can learn a lot while you have a good time. If you like good comedies you shouldn’t miss it. Besides, it can appeal to all ages. I found it really interesting; that’s the reason why I definitely recommend it!

Notting Hill

Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a highly original romantic comedy directed by Roger Michel in 1999 and starred by two worldwide known stars. The role of Anna Scott is played by Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant plays the part of William Thacker. This film is set in Notting Hill which is one of the best-known areas in London.

The film begins when Anna Scott, a Hollywood movie star, visits William Thacker’s bookshop in Notting Hill. After this, they run into each other in the middle of the street and they fall in love. She has to leave and William thinks that he will not see her again, as she is a star he will never be able to contact her. However, she leaves him a message arranging an unconventional date and then they start a relationship. After a lot of events, they break up and we don’t know if they are going to meet again because she returns to America. William realises that he did not do the right thing and he tries to talk to her. Unfortunately, she is about to leave, it is too late… or not?

The film is vastly enjoyable, the most outstanding features are the acting, which is of high standard and the soundtrack which perfectly matches the plot. Although it has a predictable ending, it is so emotionally powerful that it is the best scene of the film.

If you want to have a good time, Notting Hill is a highly entertaining film which appeals to all ages. People who like romantic comedies shouldn’t miss it because the story is perfectly portrayed. I definitely recommend it.