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America's Sweethearts (2001)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria
Screenwriter: Billy Crystal, Peter Tolan, Donna Roth
Producer: Susan Arnold, Billy Crystal
Reviews
Inevitably there are some funny moments, and of course this is an endlessly watchable cast. But the movie is just too over-the-top.
The script here is not funny, while the cast -- though star-studded -- is perfunctory.
Lacking originality or true wit, this mildly amusing but utterly banal comedy again demonstrates that Joe Roth is not much of a director and that Billy Crystal can do only one thing as an actor--be Billy Crystal.
Could have been more with such a great cast, but still manages to entertain.
It gets a little funnier toward the end, making up for the draggy first half . . . However, the shelf-life of this Sweetheart should be short indeed.
A loose-limbed, occasionally funny movie of many madly spinning teacups sunk by uninvested-in characters and niggling, wrongheaded details.
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