Runaway Bride (1999)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Best movie ever!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Oh my God horrible. I put up with 20 minutes before I turned off because I felt so ill. Richard Gere reminds me of a short film I saw one time in the middle of the night, I'm not sure if I dreamt it. An Alsation dog was driving a taxi in New York, another Alsatian trying to go across the zebra crossing and the taxi Alsatian nearly hits the walking. The Alsatian on the zebra crossing turned around and shouted 'hey I'm walking here!'. I don't even know if Americans know what zebra crossings are.That's as far as I got. Horrible film, just awful.

Julia Roberts seems to be one of the most hated celebrities on this website. I can't really understand why. I find her to be talented and charming as well as engaging and usually likable, until I saw Runaway Bride. I thought I was going to like this one but it offered some of the most unlikable characters I have ever seen in a romantic comedy. Generally, the audience should want to cheer for the two people to get together but I couldn't care less. I don't think Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts) actually deserved to be in a marriage because she was selfish, immature and seemed incapable of love. I just couldn't fathom why anyone would actually be attracted to her. She has weddings like there no big deal and she probably wasted a lot of money between the four failed ones she had. She has her fiancé invest all of his time into the relationship, trying to show her that he does indeed love her only to be left at the altar. I guess the situation was supposed to be humorous and I shouldn't have taken it so seriously but it was tough to overlook all of the garbage the film was trying sell to me.Acting wise the film was decent, which did save it a little. Julia Roberts gives an okay performance, although it's one of her worst. However, she is working with rather weak material and she's portraying a woman that is just so hard to like. Richard Gere was also decent although nothing special. The chemistry between these two was basically non-existent which made their relationship seem completely fake and unrealistic. It was hard to buy that a cynical man would fall for a woman that has no problem trampling all over a man's heart. They did have a few funny scenes together though which made the film more enjoyable. Unfortunately, the film runs for an inexplicable 116 minutes so there are a lot of dead spots.Romantic comedies shouldn't really be loathsome movies. The characters should be likable and engaging so it's easy to get behind them and the story shouldn't be too far-fetched. Unfortunately, Runaway Bride commits the worst sin for a romantic comedy by offering unlikable characters, making it basically impossible to really get into the movie despite how talented the cast may be.

Well, I got the DVD of this from a friend and I started to regret watching this because I thought it would be another same old romantic chick flick, which has no meaning to it whatsoever. But, despite all that, I was amazed that I actually liked this movie! Because like I said, normally I don't like chick flicks but this movie brought the world of romance to another level, which for me, I like. The performances by the handsome Richard Gere and the beautiful Julia Roberts was surprisingly good! I mean, it just made the movie more enjoyable and compelling. So well done to them, and for the script, it was a little dodgy at the start and a little few people will not understand a single thing that is happening, but I think to make the script better, someone should be a narrator and tell the story, so people will understand it. Other than that I really enjoyed the beautiful and wonderful ending!This movie just kept me on the edge of my seat and I must say, when you watch it, you lose yourself and you feel like your in heaven. Seriously, I felt like that when I was watching it and I was really captivated by that. Furthermore, I think the cast and crew did a marvellous job creating this heartwarming romantic comedy and they should deserve a Oscar for it! So once again, well done! So if you feel like taking a break from a long exhausting day, Runaway Bride is always there to calm you down and take you away into the blue skies of heaven and above.

Nine years after their smash PRETTY WOMAN, director Garry Marshall reunited his stars, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, in RUNAWAY BRIDE, a watchable 1999 romantic comedy which is more than anything, a reunion of the PRETTY WOMAN stars (including Marshall good luck charm Hector Elizondo) in a featherweight comedy that borrows liberally from more than half a dozen superior romantic comedies that I can think of, including PRETTY WOMAN. Roberts plays Maggie, a small town free spirit who has a reputation for planning large elaborate weddings and leaving the groom at the altar at the very last second. When Masggie gets engaged for the fourth time, word of her story reaches a big city newspaper writer (Gere) who decides to come to Maggie's intimate little hamlet to cover the wedding and well, you can guess the rest. The on screen charisma between Gere and Roberts is still there, but this time they have a rather limp screenplay to work with that doesn't really play to their strengths as farceurs. In addition to Elizondo, Joan Cusack does steal every scene she is in as Maggie's best friend and there are also effective turns from Paul Dooley as Maggie's dad and Christopher Meloni as fiancée #4. It's passable comic fare, but if you're looking for another PRETTY WOMAN, you will be disappointed.]