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America's Sweethearts

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Catherine Zeta-Jones delivers an amazing performance (as usual)! The film is pretty easy to follow, but still manages to be entertaining enough to make you wanna watch it again. If you're anything like me, once it's in the dvd player, it doesn't leave for a few days!! :)

Catherine Zeta-Jones plays the star actress with a diva attitude, Julia Roberts is her ever-so-kind and helpful sister and personal assistant, and John Cusack is the love-sick estranged husband of Catherine Zeta-Jones'. Although they have been living apart for a year, are going to be divorced, and try to avoid each other, Zeta-Jones and Cusack both star in a movie which the movie's producer is anxious to earn big bucks from. Billy Cristal is the PR guy hired by the movie's producer to encourage (let's say, "dupe") Zeta-Jones and Cusack into making a star appearance at the film's premiere and he also orchestrates a series of "scandals" for the reporters and tabloids, just to make more money (as they say, no publicity is bad publicity, or something like that.) In the process, Zeta-Jones and Cusack end up in all sorts of funny, embarassing circumstances which they both try very desperately to extricate themselves from.

Cusack is not at his best, but he's entertaining. Roberts is looking good (and I wonder if she did really put on all that weight for this movie, cos it looks so real!). Zeta-Jones is stunning and ever-so-convincing in these diva roles.

I wouldn't say this is a great movie... but its a good one for renting for those nights in (with lots of crisps and popcorn at the side!). It does have enough unpredictability and gags in it to keep you chuckling, and the nice little happy ending will make you go "Awwww...." with a smile :)

This is Cusack at his best . . . quirky, new age, obsessive over Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is the most loveable self-absorbed prima donna ever to grace a screen.

I'm mad about this movie, it is probably the one that pushed me over the Cusack edge.

How did someone take a light-hearted but cute premise, big name stars, and turn it into such a lame and inane film? The talent is obviously there, but the movie simply doesn't work. Alternating between over-the-top (which I think was the point) and deadly dull (which probably wasn't), this film stalls and fizzles.

This movie wasn't amazing, but it was a cute story. It was interesting to think about everything that goes into publicizing a movie, and what the actors are like in real life. Crystal's character was very funny. See it at some point if you don't have anything better to do, but don't spend too much on it.

America's Sweethearts tries to be a romantic comedy using a canned formula, but it doesn't succeed on any level. It's hardly funny and certainly not very romantic. The plot is a foray into Hollywood's self-loathing that is not light-hearted enough to work. The characters are not very likable, which is an essential part of any romance. The attempts at humor are rarely funny. Billy Crystal happens to be a talented actor (such as he was in Princess Bride) and he deserves a better medium than this.

I'm not a huge chick flick fan (This is a chick flick, right?) But this ranks among the worst. I just couldn't connect to the characters. There was nothing really funny and it didn't arouse any emotions in me at all. And it was pretty predictable that what's-his-face was going to fall in love with so-and-so's sister. I just didn't like it. If you want a chick flick that's really funny, I strongly recommend Miss Congeniality.

John Cusack(Better Off Dead, Identity, Max) and Catherine Zeta-Jones(Traffic, High Fidelity, The Mask OF Zorro) are America's Sweethearts but they were when Cusack went nuts..so he's at this clinic where Alan Arkin(Jereky Boys Movie, Grosse Pointe Blank) is his doctor..so he is let free when his newest movie is released featuring Jones..so Billy Crystal(Father's Day, Deconstructing Harry, This Is Spinal Tap)..it's directed by a very funny Christopher Walken(Suicide Kings, Nick OF Time, Sleepy Hollow)..also starring Seth Green(Party Monster, Stephen King's IT, Idle Hands), Julia Roberts(Erin Brockovich, Oceans Elven2001, PRetty Woman), Hank Azaria(Godzilla1998, Heat, Great Expectations1998), Eric Balfour(Trojan War, Cant Hardly Wait, Texas Chainsaw Massacre2003) and Stanley Tucci(The Core, Big Trouble, The Pelican Brief)...highlight would have to be when Seth Green and Billy Crystal talk threw the walkie talkies.Hilarious

favorite line
Alan Arkin-(sniffs a leaf) life is a cookie

It's about time Roberts made a movie with Cusack. NICE thing they had there. I loved that Julia played a newly thin girl. She did a great job of graciously accepting compliments that sometimes came across as though she had looked HORRID before. Her pancake scene with the butter--"If this were my sister, there'd be butter. She'd have them out there milking a cow right now. Kiki, is someone smoking? Is someone daring to smoke within 500 feet of me? Find them and make them stop, Kiki!" Hilarious. Catherine Zeta-Jones did a fabulous job as a spoiled movie star--who was spoiled long before stardom--and her scene at the end where she tries to do damage control is excellently played. Cusack is charming as a the jilted husband still in love with his ex-wife, AND as the man falling in love with her sister and trying to figure it all out. Hank--Catherine's lover--is terrific with his accent and his machcismo. Nicely done movie. Very pleasant.

I bought this movie mainly because Catherine Zeta-Jones, one of my favorite actresses is in it. But I thought that every single actor did a great job in this movie. It's so funny and sweet at the same time. John Cusack did, as usual, a wonderful job. He's first seen in a wellness center due to his recent break-up with his wife Gwen (Zeta-Jones). He executes the role in a wonderful way. I don't think that any other actor could have played the role any better.

Julia Roberts was wonderful too. I had never really seen her as the "sweet" one before in a movie. She is like Cinderella in a way. She plays Gwens's sister Kiki and basically does everything for her. I loved her in this movie.

Catherine was as usual, spectacular. She plays the vixen so well! That kind of role seems to fit her quite well, at least from what I have seen in "Chicago" and "Intolerable Cruelty."

Billy Crystal. What can I say about him except he's great! Stanley Tucci was quite funny too as the executive. And I loved Seth Green's character. He was just goofy. But in a good way.

Then of course you have the totally hilarious Hank Azaria. Everytime the man came on screen I laughed. He had a funny line all of the time. He is just a terrific actor in general. I also loved Chrisopher Walken. You would expect him to play this really dark, creepy guy, but instead, he doesn't. He's very...interesting. I won't give it away.

Anyway, if you love romantic comedies with lots of twists, this is the move to watch!