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38 utilisateurs sur 45 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
"Chemistry, likeable characters make this film work", 25 mars 2003

Auteur : Joseph Riesenbeck (eazyguy62) de Etats-Unis

In films like You've Got Mail, where you can almost predict how it's going to turn out as soon as the opening credits appear, then it is up to the writers, director, and actors, to get us to enjoy the journey to the end credits. Nora and Delia Ephron's script succeeds because they know their characters well, and give them a can't miss plot device. Tom Hanks is believable as the head of a gigantic bookstore chain, as is Meg Ryan as the owner of a small children's bookstore shop. As the guy who is putting Meg out of business by opening a chain store close to her little shop, Tom Hanks character comes across as the arrogant person who only goal seems to open as many bookstores as he can, and make as much money as he can in doing so. When he is talking to Meg Ryan on the internet, we see another side of him, and learn that possibly, he's not the evil guy you think he is. Of course, in person, Meg hates him for what he is doing, on the internet, she falls in love with him. This is what makes the film work, as their reaction to each other in person is completely different from when they talk on line. Some people may quibble that the ending is not very believable, but face it, do you fall in love with a person because of who they are, or what you think they are? I think this question is answered quite adequately.

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One of the most romantic movies I've ever seen!!!, 18 décembre 1998

Auteur : Maryann de Lancaster, PA

I've been starved for a great romantic film and YOU'VE GOT MAIL more than sated my appetite! I'd rank it right up there with CASABLANCA as one of the most romantic movies of all time. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have more chemistry than a High School Science Department! This movie was warm, funny, smart, and sexy. Tom and Meg light up the screen and Tom Hanks is the perfect hero! The movie was 2 hours long, felt like 10 minutes, and I didn't want it to be over! This is a definite keeper, and I can't wait for it to come out on video so I can watch it again and again!

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You've got something most of us like, 21 février 2004
Auteur : Bob Highland (bobhighland@email.com) de Sydney, Australie

Romantic comedies are not everyone's cup of tea; after all, who would want to watch unrealistic stories about ordinary people 'coupling' when we are offered such wonderful everyday experiences as ten car pileups, hordes of people being slaughtered in a hail of bullets while shopping, goblins, explosions, vampires and intergalactic spaceships?

But the majority of women, and many of those men who do not see themselves as the Governor of California will surely find much to like in this charming eye-moistener.

Tales of this ilk can easily be mawkish, but this one largely avoids the trap, thanks to an intelligent script, the believability of the lead pair (as well as the supporting cast) and good pacing that leaves the denouement until the closing shot.

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46 utilisateurs sur 65 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
This movie was so much more than I expected., 21 décembre 1998

Auteur : Clare-5 de DeKalb, Illinois

This movie was so much better than I expected, which was a simple romantic comedy with predictable "pass each other in the street" scenarios throughout. I was pleasantly surprised to find a love story that touched my heart. Kathleen's vulnerability and pride in her mother made me cry and Joe's sensitivity and devious behavior were so very sweet.

I didn't think that Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan could pull off a romance better than they did in Sleepless In Seattle but I am happy to be mistaken.

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Great movie, great performances, great music!, 25 janvier 1999

Auteur : BChase de Texas

I was pleasantly surprised to find "Mail" not to be a rehash of "Sleepless." Ryan and Hanks do work exceptionally well together! Three-quarters into the movie I was wondering how they would ever pull off a romantic and yet believable ending, but the scene at the garden was one of those perfect moments in filmmaking. It just rang true and consistent with the story.

I really enjoyed this one! (And hearing Harry Nilsson's music again, used so beautifully, was icing on the cake!)

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25 utilisateurs sur 29 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Unbelievable film! Such a warmth and happiness!, 30 décembre 2005

Auteur : SRVforever de Allemagne

I'm from Germany and I love this film! It makes me happy to just watch it! When watching this film one comes to think why in real life such beauty in words and moments can't be achieved! The film does'nt get boring, even if watched for the 23rd time! It's pure magic - you could endlessly listen to the conversations, the beautiful music and enjoy the excellent acting! Other films try to come in too trendy with freaky music and sexual content(not that there's anything wrong with that) - but it's not a feelgood movie! Besides the puns and the lovely warm hearted atmosphere does the rest! To everyone who hasn't yet seen this movie - rent it, buy it - enjoy it!

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Well, I honestly do not no what to say..., 24 septembre 2007

Auteur : Aida Dadgar de Gothenburg, Suède

...except for the fact that this movie made me so happy! I'm a huge Tom Hanks fan and I collect all of his movies, and it has been quite some time since i've seen a really good and special movie of his. He's just such a wonderful actor and Meg Ryan's just... Well, she's just so great, always happy and when she's acting she always makes me laugh, cause she's just so wonderful! Let's talk about this movie: I'm gonna be honest with you, this isn't Forrest Gump or The Green Mile, but it is romantic, special, wonderful and it made me smile and wish for them to get together in the film, and in the end I was just happier then before! I think it's underrated, but everyone has a special taste, and I just loved it! I seriously recommend it to every Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fan, you are not going to regret it! Thank you for your time.

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I loved this movie!!, 20 décembre 1998

Auteur : anonymous de Vancouver, Canada

I didn't think it possible to be better than "Sleepless", an all time favourite of mine, but it was. I see a movie every week and this was definitely the one I enjoyed the most this year.

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Cookie-cutter romance, but Meg Ryan radiates with charm, 9 juillet 2006

Auteur : moonspinner55 de redlands, ca

Pleasant, undemanding fluff reworks 1940's "The Shop Around the Corner" (remade initially in 1949 as the musical "In The Good Old Summertime") and reteams Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan for the second time in genial plot about rival bookstore owners. She operates a Mom & Pop bookshop, he's opening another outlet in his retail chain nearby; they lock horns over business, yet are unaware they are also each other's internet pen-pal. Slick and occasionally too-cute, but very entertaining picture with a holiday theme. Ryan is delightful, Hanks less so (he's rote, and looks tired to boot), but Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton and Steve Zahn make up a terrific supporting cast. Engaging and lots of fun. *** from ****

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Laszlo's Play Makes It's Third Film Appearance, 25 décembre 2005

Auteur : theowinthrop de Etats-Unis

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

If you have been reading the last three reviews I did, this is the natural concluding review of the sequence. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME, and SHE LOVES ME all were based (in the central plot about two people at loggerheads in physical life, falling in love through anonymity in pen-pal letters) on Miklos Laszlo's PERFUMERIE. They all had their differences in a secondary plot dealing with the jealousy of the owner of the store towards the hero (his closest employee) resulting in his firing the hero due to a serious mistake by the employer. This was jettisoned and altered in the middle film, but resumed in the Kander and Ebb musical of the 1970s (made into a television version in 1978). But that version actually gave the actual villain a parting shot in his last song, showing he was down, but not out, and would still find a way of getting an undeserved success.

When Nora Ephron did her version of the play in this screenplay, the jealousy angle was dumped, and the concentration was on the business antagonism between the hero and heroine (here Tom Hanks as Joe Fox, and Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly). Hanks and Ryan do not work at the same store as James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan or Van Johnson and Judy Garland did. Hanks works at a mega book store (Fox Books) like Barnes and Noble. Ryan runs a small neighborhood book store for children, called "The Shop Around The Corner" (Hanks takes her to task for that name, saying it can't be claimed as a single corporate name). Fox Books is moving into the neighborhood that Ryans's store is in, and she fights it's irresistible push - in vain as it is. In the end not only is she the loser, but members of her staff get hired by Fox Books as well.

There are other elements here that do not come out in the original version or the 1949 version. The protagonists don't write letters, but are sending e-mails to each other. Times are changing, and the discovery of a small notice in the newspaper's classified for a pen-pal is replaced by Ryan meeting Fox accidentally in surfing the internet and finding a chat room (a scene we are told of, but never see). In the 1949 film, Garland was pursued (if you will - somewhat weakly) by Johnson's friend and fellow employee Buster Keaton. Johnson was linked (by Garland) to a female friend who was a violinist. Neither relationship was that strong or threatening to the eventual Johnson-Garland relationship. But for the first half of YOU'VE GOT MAIL, Ryan is living with a self-righteous newspaper columnist (Greg Kinnear), and Hanks is living with a self-centered publisher (Parker Posey). We barely knew the families of Sullivan and Garland (we saw an aunt or two that they lived with). Here we know that Ryan's mother is dead, but her grandmother Birdie (Jean Stapleton) is alive and thriving. In fact we learn Birdie is rich due to a stock investment and that she once dated John Randolph, Hanks' grandfather. In fact, we even learn that Birdie romanced one of the most interesting political figures of 20th Century Europe. Hanks' family is developed too, beyond Stewart's or Johnson's (or Ellis's for that matter). Besides grandfather Randolph (about to remarry), we see Hanks' father (Dabney Coleman), who keeps running through wives and never finding the right mate. We also meet Hank's aunt and brother.

The film worked well again, and just as the early pairs of couples (Stewart and Sullivan, Johnson and Garland) had good chemistry, so did Hanks and Ryan. This was their third film together (people forget they did JOE AND THE VOLCANO first), and the second film (after SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) with Ephron at the helm. With all the modernization and story changes, and character histories, and assaults on the concept of mega-stores (check the scene where Hanks hears an inept salesman in the children's book section), Epron managed to show the old warhorse by Mr. Laszlo still had plenty of juice in it to go down well with the public. My guess is that like Lubitsch's original film it will end up a classic version of the story. My wonder is what will be the next version be like.

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