What a wild and wacky place to find a Fire Chief and a Rocket Scientist, both looking for love. Steve Martin is in excellent form as is Darryl Hannah. The town becomes part of the ensemble, too. Highly recommended, especially if your significant other watches with you.
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Masterpiece!
Added 7/27/2008
I am not a huge Steve Martin fan, but this film stands alone as his best work. He wrote the screenplay, and then delivers his best acting job by ten miles above any other of his other films. It is quite simply a masterpiece. It is hilarious, witty, romantic, wonderfully filmed, perfectly cast and excellently directed! If you've seen any other Steve Martin movie and thought they were just too stupid to waste your time on, don't lump this film in with those. It stands alone and well above. It is a fabulous film to see again and again!
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The worst possible DVD edition for this romantic comedy classic.
Added 3/15/2008
I think we all agree that this 1987 classic romantic comedy is absolutely wonderful, entertaining, magic, funny and hylarious. The best romantic comedy for some, one of the best comedies of the 80's for others. Great story, incredible performance of steve martin , great production and artistic direction by Fred Schepisi. We can argue with that of course, but one thing beyond discussion, is that this Sony Pictures 2002 DVD edition for this masterpiece is so awful, that it manages to destroy the experience.
I had to put up with a VHS edition for 15 years, for what! This? I can say without any doubt, that this is one of the worst DVD editions i own, behind my Asian bootleg martial arts copies. Absolutely awful, this edition manages to restrain the impact of the movie with all the worst features of the fullscreen edition: Extreme close-ups, alternate or moving angles from the same take, chopped off characters from the scenes, people talking to shoulders and corners, people talking from outside the picture, missing scenarios and landscapes, blurry video quality... my god! Not even the 5.1 english soundtrack could emerge, not even the movie could! Extras? The movie trailer...In widescreen! It was torture.
By far, the worst 7 dollars i have ever spent, and a disapointment i'm never gonna forget.
My recomendation for fans looking for this wonderful movie in DVD: Go outside the store and get the widescreen edition, online or on local stores. I'm desperatly seeking for other better editions, i'm even willing to download it, or even buy a bootleg.
Whatever you do: Please, please, don't buy this awful Sony 2002 fullscreen edition.
And Sony pictures: Widescreen versions fit the screen too!
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A remake of Cyrano
Added 3/8/2008
This is a Steve Martin remake of the classic Cyrano. And in my opinion one of his best efforts. (right next to "My Blue Heaven". Of course i bought it.
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Steve Martin is C.D. Bales, a perfect catch for any woman except for one drawback. He has a huge nose. Everyone is hypnotized by it. No one can ignore it. The movie is a take-off on the play, Cyrano de Bergerac. C.D. works for the fire department and falls for Roxanne, an astronomy student. Because of his nose, he courts her through a friend. Romance and humor intertwine. The scene in which Martin enumerates insults about his nose is brilliant.
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Hilarious than ever!!
Added 10/15/2009
I've seen this movie before years ago but half of the time I'd watch movies in the middle to the end so I never get a chance to watch movies from the start and honestly anyone who loves both Steve Martin & Rick Moranis should definitly get this movie! It IS worth the money guaneeted!! Its such a funny movie with the dancing and other things going on you just wait on your seat never knowing what is gonna happen next or what's Vinnie gonna pull over Barney next believe me when i say its a funny movie that i am happy to own and love watching it whenever i want to get alot of great laughs!!
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this movie really is a classic. a great cast and a quality script. steve martin is amazing, some of the best one liners ever in this one
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Sometimes I just like a movie to be fun ...
Added 8/21/2009
... not cerebral or brilliant. This is a perfectly fun, enjoyable movie. If I'm feeling a little (or even a lot) down, the less thinking I need to do, the better. Movies are a good escape every now and then. There's some farcical, dumb stuff and lame bits, but there are a lot of truly funny moments, too. The two merengue sequences alone are terrific.
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