Fools Rush In
Fools Rush In
PG-13 | 14 February 1997 (USA)
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After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.

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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Predrag This is a delightful romantic comedy. Blue-blooded Manhattan-based New Englander, Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry), gets feisty Mexican, Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) pregnant during a one-night stand when he is sent to Las Vegas to build a night club. After a mystifying post-coital disappearance, she re-appears three months later to announce her condition. Following their spur of the moment wedding at a Las Vegas chapel with an Elvis impersonator as their witness, there ensues much predictable mayhem and comic intimidation at the hands of Isabel's father, brothers and ex-fiancé. Fire is added to the flames when Whitman's straight-laced parents, who know nothing of the marriage, turn up unannounced. Isabel's volatile temperament and disagreements over whether to live in Las Vegas or New York add to the mix.The chemistry between Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry is delightful and sweet. The basic them of two people making a big mistake during a drunken night out, falling in love, dealing with multi-cultural issues coming from two different worlds, has been done before, but this was done with such a truly fresh and cute twist on it. Matthew Perry is at his usual hilarious and very witty best, and Salma Hayek is utterly adorable, feisty, sexy, cute and sweet. As you see the two of them stepping up to the responsibilities of what they have done, and trying to accept their whirlwind romance, there are some of the classic things you would expect as Matthew Perry's well to do, rich parents from the Northeast suddenly realize their sun lives with a woman in Las Vegas that has turned their home into a little Mexico. The actors involved do credit to the movie. What else is there to say! Overall rating: 8 out of 10.
gwnightscream Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Siobhan Fallon, Carlos Gomez, Suzanne Snyder, John Perry and Jill Clayburgh star in this 1997 romantic comedy. This begins in New York where architect, Alex Whitman (Perry) is chosen to go to Las Vegas, Nevada to open a nightclub. Soon, he meets Latina photographer, Isabel Fuentes (Hayek) and they have a one night stand. Three months later, Isabel tells Alex she's pregnant and his life changes. They get married and learn they're from different worlds. Alex's work also starts to interfere with their marriage, but eventually he gets his priorities straight and believes that fate brought him and Isabel together. Tenney plays Alex's friend, Jeff, Fallon (Men in Black) plays Isabel's friend, Lanie, Gomez plays Isabel's ex-boyfriend, Chuy, Snyder (Weird Science) plays Alex's other friend, Cathy, the late, Clayburgh plays Alex's mother, Nan and Matthew's real-life father, John plays his on-screen father, Richard. I've always liked this film and Matthew & Salma have good chemistry. I recommend this good romance film.
tbills2 This movie is so clearly not bad. Fools Rush In is one of the better romantic comedies, that's a little known fact. It has really sharp editing, fine directing, good cinematography, really good acting and really good writing. Fools Rush In's editing and story presentation is particularly very strong. Fools Rush In has very rich colors. The writing is natural, genuine. It's really funny, but Fools Rush In is more so good than funny, which is much more of an accomplishment.This movie is all about Alex Whitman and Isabel Fuentes. Matthew Perry is in his best role. Perry's very well-cast and there aren't many actors out of anybody better for the part. He's good for the character and is very lovable. Perry poses as the main star but he's just for show. This is quietly though obviously Salma Hayek's film. She is perfect for the part, perfect. Salma Hayek gives you real heart acting very womanly and comes across as all too sweet. Fools Rush In is a very sweet romantic comedy. It's an easy film to enjoy. I am particularly very fond of Fools Rush In.
RResende Yet another story inserted in the conventional romance film invaded by comedy and with a comedian in the main role.There's nothing relevant here, if you like Matthew Perry as a TV actor he won't disappoint you here, i suppose. He made a good part of his career in television and that shows (on the negative side) on his films. See 'the whole nine yards' and compare his comedy timings with those of Bruce Willis or compare his cinema performances with those of other actors more rooted in cinema like Brendan Fraser. He doesn't pull things off like they do. But here he is, TV fans of him will probably appreciate something of what he does here.The common cliché of portraying Latin American cultures in Hollywood films (most of all the mexicans, for proximity) is something that look odd today. These last 11 years brought to a mass distribution many films from some Latin American cinema industries, and the lives depicted in those films proved films like this one ridiculous. There's more than coloured walls, Christian beliefs and certain paternal macho attitudes in Mexican culture, as in any culture. Probably in 11 years we'll see similar odd things in films being made right now.My opinion: 1/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com