Movie is around Kathleen Kelly (played by Meg Ryan) who owns a children's bookstore in New York. That aside from tending her store, she's excited to hear three words from her computer, when AOL rings "You've Got Mail". Whenever she hears this, it means that she's got mail from her online friend named NY152 (her online persona is "Shopgirl"). Both are bonded through emails, even if they don't know each other in person, they feel a connection of their minds.
From emails, they moved on to online chats as Kathleen's bookstore is being threatened by a new bookstore partly owned by Joe. As each do not know each others personal details, they didn't know that they are competitors in real life. Finally they decide to meet but somehow Joe manages to discover who Shopgirl really is and he stood her up at their meeting.
Joe started to have feelings for Kathleen yet the latter would not have any for Joe. In spite of their being competitors, Joe tried his best to win over Kathleen's favors. With Joe's persistence, both managed to become friends, close friends even. With a heightened friendship between them, Joe then confessed to Kathleen his true feeling for her. She's now confused as he likes Joe now but still pines for her online friend NY152. She left Joe on the streets while she prepares to meet with NY152.
While waiting for online friend in the park, in comes Joe. Kathleen cried upon seeing him, only then she realized that NY152 is Joe. She cried because in her heart, she wanted NY152 to be Joe. She cried because she was happy.
This couple is great together especially in the romance comedy department. We liked them in "Sleepless in Seattle" and now they are back together in this movie. Although if we weigh in these two movies, we favor heavily on Sleepless over this but we don't get enough of them so we recommend this too.
Tom Hanks is in his usual self, a great actor and performer and he is so cool and relaxed when paired with Meg Ryan. Meg is so cute and innocent looking here and our screen lights up when these two are together.
Don't expect here the magic found din Sleepless as this film is a different animal altogether. It feeds on our craving for affection found online, but in the end, what we need is physical love and affection. Nothing compares to reality and this movie showed that Meg Ryan truly hopes Tom Hanks is NY152. So after watching this movie, try to get out more and socialize physically. Meeting people in real life is far more exciting than clicking like buttons on your friend's posts. :)
This is not the Avengers you know but this is the one that I love more. John Steed (played by Ralph Fiennes) is an agent of the Ministry based in London, working together with Mrs. Emma Peel (played by Uma Thurman).
The movie starts off with Mrs. Peel getting a call to meet with Steed at a gentlemen's club. They were to meet with Mother (played by Jim Broadbent) code name for the highest office in the Ministry. The latter then informs both that there was a sabotage made with the Prospero Project. A science project that influences the weather and that the perpetrator was Mrs. Peel. A video shows it was Mrs Peel who did it but was denied by her. She says she's innocent so Mother instructs Steed and Mrs Peel to investigate who really did the sabotage.
Father (played by Fiona Shaw) playing second fiddle to Mother, reports that Mrs Peel has a mental disease and that she shouldn't be trusted. So she was the culprit behind the sabotage of the Prospero Project.
Working on all known personnel working on the project, both went off to visit Sir August de Wynter (played by Sean Connery) to investigate. It seems Sir August has something to hide so they investigate him further. Their lead led them to Wonderland Weather, a company that can manipulate the weather using special equipment, where they saw two dead men in teddy bear costumes. These men were part of a secret organization headed by Sir August de Wynter and the teddy bear costumes were a ruse to to disguise its members' identities. Both chased after the men in costumes when Mrs Peel encounters another Mrs Peel. Steed arrived in time to save Mrs Peel with the "bad" Mrs Peel disappearing.
They are now more convinced that Sir August was behind it all and they are now collecting more evidence against him. In one of the scenes thereafter, Mrs. Peel was arrested by Father while Steed was asking for information from Invisible Jones. Steed learned from the later that in a cloning experiment by the Ministry, Father knew Sir August establishing that both was working together.
After escaping her arrest aka kidnapping, Mrs Peel joined Steed to confront Sir August at the latter's secret hideout. Mrs Peel then deactivates the Prospero machine (it was clear that this was creating havoc using the weather in London) and Steed kills Sir August in the end. Both escaped from the hideout safely and shares champagne with Mother in the last scene.
As per critics this movie did not sit well with them. We beg otherwise. They might be setting a bar so high for a spy thriller that this will fail miserably so. If you just keep an open mind and just wander a bit, you find that his movie is a well thought of and very much into details. When we first saw this movie way back 98 we thought of it of being too quirky or cartoony of sorts. Every bit of exaggeration in terms of production design, situation development, fashion and even their acting and dialogues. Even so, we find this one entertaining.
Fast forward to 2020 and thanks to google, we were able to see that this movie was american made based on a famous British TV series. After watching a few episodes, we then realized that it really was quirky, cartoony and on the exaggeration side. No topic was set aside, imagination goes wild in their show except for nudity and some erotic situations that were censored during its hey day. So we now understand why the 1998 film was done like we observed.
Uma Thurman is a well known fashion model in real life so letting her don some fashionable clothes here is a god send. They may not be perfect for a spy but hey she looked great in them. Besides I like her doing two characters here, the good and the bad Mrs. Peel. Such a joy to watch but don't expect award winning acting. She handled her part well and for us did justice for Mrs Peel.
Ralph Fiennes is a suave and handsome lad here. He's no James Bond here but tries to be British to the max in personality and mannerisms. Very polite and cordial, he's not a bad ass spy here. He's just a smooth operator not typical of a spy. His scenes were toned down in violence and you can see them well choreograph like dancing. You wont see him really in danger like you are reading a comic book. Although you can predict the outcome it was still good watching him lord over evil.
Sean Connery is the villain here so it was surprise to see him in such a role here. Even if he was a bad person here, I can't relate to him as being evil. Being James Bond himself in many films prior, I still see him as siding with the government. His acting in some parts were commendable especially in the early parts of the film, but somehow we lost track of it near the end. Maybe the magic of his acting was in the beginning and it went downhill midway. Maybe he's not really into the villainous nature of films.
As we said we liked the film as we saw the production team gave much effort in almost everything seen and heard on screen. What we however found wanting was character development on all them. We were wondering how John Steed became John Steed, or why Mrs. Peel was attracted to John Steed midway and why did the villain Sir August de Wynter went bad was it for profit only? We thought these points were weak and it would have been nice if we could have a solid link that would tie all of them together. Having the good guys go after the bad guy simply because they were agents of the Ministry can be expounded further.
This movie did not make money in the box office so a sequel did not even warrant much even of a rumor. For us however we beg to differ. We liked the idea of the TV series and we thought the movie tried to emulate what the creators had in mind for The Avengers. Maybe what we were hoping for was an origin film which they didn't do. If this was an origin film, then maybe just maybe a sequel could perhaps be in the offing. The TV series had such a colorful imagination that it dared tell boundless story lines. This is what we are hoping for should a sequel or reboot is made.
This is not shown on Netflix but a full movie (low resolution) can be found in Youtube.
Adam Sandler is a regular staple for us especially during this time frame. He was making hits after hits until the jokes were all the same except for this one.
He plays an emotionally challenged individual here Bobby Boucher Jr., so he was home schooled andn raised by his old fashioned mom to shield him from society. Even in his state, he likes to help out a football team by being the waterboy. He knows he doesn't much skills so he made himself great in being the waterboy. He knows what's the best temperature, turgidity, ph balance of the water to be give the best thirst quencher a football athlete needs. This skill however did not sit well with the first team he worked for. He was considered an outcast and was picked upon by his coach and the athletes until they fired or booted him out of that team. With his desire to be the best waterboy, he applied for a down and out football team to be their waterboy. He was accepted there and when he was again being picked upon by one of the athletes. In one of those instances he got angry and leashed out on the athlete. He tackled him so hard and fast that the coach took notice of it. He thought he would be thrown out again but instead he was hired by the coach to be an athlete. He was given a scholarship just to play for the football team and he didn't tell his mother about it. He knew that if his mama would find about him studying in college and playing football, then that would be it. So he continued to secretly play for this team and he was good at tackling his opponents. he was able to carry his team to the finals against the first team who booted him out. It turned out that his coach had beef with the opposing coach and it was Bobby who helped him overcome his fears and eventually win over the other team.
For a film with a simple story plot this was watchable. Most scenes might be slapstick for you but it was necessary for this film. We like movies about underdogs and this is one of them. We can see how the main character underwent a number of struggles and it also showed that he tried to overcome them. Along the way he gained the respect of his mom, his team mates, his school mates and eventually got a girl at the end.
