Sadly Over-hyped

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts) suffers from an identity crisis which (aside from her indecision about how she likes her eggs), manifests itself most starkly in her inability to pick a bridegroom.Thrice engaged to a trio of desirable young men from her home town, she has made it to the altar with each of them, before turning around and running as fast as her legs will take her.This has made her the joke of the town; the people having all three incidents on tape (there's even been talk of opening a "wedding gift museum").This has also captured the interest of New York columnist Ike Graham (Richard Here), who because of an article he wrote about Maggie, has now been fired, and is desperate for vindication.With this in mind, he travels to Hale Maryland, where Maggie is engaged, once again, to Coach Bob Kelly (Christopher Meloni) who, for his part, has total confidence in her ability to make her marry him.Ike, however, has his doubts, and can almost taste the vindication he will get out of this...Until involvement with Maggie gets him more than he bargained for, in the sense that he starts falling for her.Hector Elizondo, Joan Cusack, and Rita Wilson, are terrific in their roles, as is Christopher Meloni whose methods for keeping Maggie "focused" are hysterical, and add tremendously to the story.Garry Marshal is possibly the only director who could've done a good job with this.Romantic comedies are obviously his cup of tea since is the third one of his that I've seen that's been great.Though not as good as Pretty Woman, and certainly not the best wedding movie I've ever seen, it's fun, and entertaining, and could not possibly have been done any better than it is.The two lead actors are perfect, managing to make a story which could be dumb, believable.Originally, Review #93Posted On: August 30, 2010

The funniest part of this movie is when I remembered that Julia Roberts and Richard Gere were also in Pretty Woman together, I had managed to forget, awesome. I am absolutely going to spoil the ending for you: Julia and Richard get together in the end. Remember how at the end of Pretty Woman, Richard and Julia get together, yeah, same thing in this movie. Were you worried? Did you think that even though they are both the lead actors in a romantic comedy that they wouldn't get together? I mean the only reason this movie was made was because so many people were happy that Richard and Julia get together in Pretty Woman--seriously, did it come to you as a surprise? They also make good movie or you could watch this one.

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.]