StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

FilmBuff1994 Peggy Sue Got Married is a brutal movie with a very poorly developed plot and a cast that are enthusiastic, but never bring us in. It has an immensely muffled plot that brings up a lot of great ideas, but never delivers on the potential of these ideas, passing by and jumping on to something else that it will also never establish fully, it had a complete lack of concentration. Farncis Ford Coppolla clearly has a passion and intrigue for comedy, but certainly not an eye for it. Not a single joke landed properly for me and I could not help but think that was as a result of the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now trying to bring us a goofy, funny movie, it just does not translate. Kathleen Turner is also very ineffective in the lead role, she had no charisma and very little embodiment of her character, I was never convinced by her, nor did I feel like she was enjoying herself. Give this one a miss. Tries to do so much and falls flat as a result. I could not possibly recommend Peggy Sue Got Married.A woman on the verge of divorce magically travels back in time to her high school years. Best Performance: Jim Carrey / Worst Performance: Kathleen Turner

boondocks176 So, you wake up from fainting 25 years earlier in your life, in your teenaged body, but you still have all the memories and life experiences you faced in those subsequent years. What would you do differently??? if you're ME, you still marry the guy cuz it's been a great life with him, but there are people i'd have been nicer to, and would have stood up for myself (and others) much more. but that's me...But Peggy Sue hasn't had a great life, and her husband hasn't been faithful. Now going thru a divorce as the adult, she's finds herself back with her husband when he was just a kid and trying so hard to make her love him. She doesn't want to have the same miserable life with him she's known, but in the end, she realizes that to boot him from her teenage life, she also boots the two kids she had with him, and she's not willing to do that.I love everything about this movie. i love the performances, and the cinematography. The music by John Barry sets the tone, and it tugs at the heartstrings every time. I love that grown-up Peggy now understands how better to treat people she dissed in her selfish youth, and stands up for those who are weak when confronted by bullies. Those are the kinds of things I would try to correct if i could have a do-over with my senior year in high school. I wouldn't be one of the sheep Michael Fitzpatrick talks about. Being a mother, I'd want to protect the kids who were bullied.I loved that the old guys at the lodge just happened to have a ritual to send her back to her time, and no one (but her grandfather) seemed astonished that it actually seemed to work.The one, teeny weeny issue i always think about is, if her peers (Michael, Richard Norvick) could "remember" this "different" Peggy and how she impacted their lives, why not her grandparents? wouldn't they have mentioned it to her, at some point in her life, that she had talked to them about time traveling when she went to visit them that night? She only told Richard and her grandparents that she'd come from the future---Richard, while not openly saying so, certainly had more of a relationship with her than when they were in school. Michael, who is only seen in 1960, still makes it apparent that they spent time together in her second go-round. And she told her grandparents....but they don't mention it again, apparently. ah, the paradox of time travel.

ElMaruecan82 After I could transfer them to DVD format, all my childhood films were finally available, and what a night I spent two days ago, I laugh, I cried and I meditated. I showed my family to my wife, the way it was and the way I was. But the film was slowly filling my heart with melancholy especially the sight of my parents. I couldn't believe how young, how baby-faced they were … and seeing myself so little, so innocent, so full of premises, I couldn't help but focus on all the stuff I would have made if only I knew how tough life would be, If only I knew.But no one ever knows. At least we all deal with the same rules, and maybe that's what makes life worth living, but imagine just for once, if we could. Haven't you ever wondered what if you could get back to the past, and provide one piece of advice or two to yourself? Or haven't you simply wished to travel back to time if only to speak a last time to the people who left you? Francis Ford Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married" is a sweet and tender fantasy film that explores all these thrilling possibilities. Indeed, that's the kind of delightful plot lines no one could possibly resist because it carries many premises on both comedic and dramatic level.I suspect the idea grew in the mind of a clever screenwriter with all these 'what if' interrogations. And although it is probably inspired by the high school/ nostalgia/ coming to age wave characterized by the success of "Back to the Future" and Howard Hughes' teenage films of the 80's, the film borrows also some elements to a very defining movie of Francis Ford Coppola's generation, "American Graffiti". It's set in 1960, it has cars and rock'n'roll and it encapsulates the youthful innocence of the pre-Vietnam, pre-Kennedy years. No wonder, both Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel made it in their Top 10 lists, they loved "American Graffitti", they loved "It's a Wonderful Life", how can't they love a film that borrows crucial plot elements to both, and still remain original.And Kathleen Turner is the Capraesque heroine; she plays Peggy Sue with a wonderful mix of childish enthusiasm and adult poignancy. The performance, rightfully Oscar-nominated, is so endearing that any consideration about her looks as a teenager are pointless. Peggy Sue is a woman in her 40's, with two grown-up kids, divorcing from her high school love Charlie (Nicolas Cage). She's victim of an emotional strike that causes her to faint during the 25th celebration of her high school promotion, and suddenly, she wakes up in 1960. She's still the same Peggy Sue but trapped in her teenage body, at a time where everything is possible … again. Is it a dream, a parallel universe, a time loop or a life-changing experience? The film leaves many questions unanswered because it needs to keep a focus on the essential: the relationships. In her mind, she's either dead or dreaming, so she tries to live this 'resurrection' to the fullest, starting with her family: she's thrilled to see her parents or to play with Nancy, her sister. She's less enchanted though with her soon-to-be husband Charlie, wannabe singer but future TV actor. The generation gap between Peggy and Charlie inspires one of the film's most memorable moment when she disconcerts him by delivering what he calls a "guy's line". Cage displays a true level of insecurity and vulnerable youth in that particular moment, he almost steals Turner's show, and on her side, she's so great that she doesn't turn her character into a sort of one-dimensional role, sometimes she's even too rude by blaming Charlie in advance for faults he hasn't committed. It's for these kinds of scene that "Peggy Sue Got Married" was probably designed and it had also the intelligence not to avoid the theme of death, with the heart-breaking and powerful moment when she talks to her grandmother in the phone. She knows that's an aspect of her life she can't change, and while she tries sometimes, like when she gives Charlie the lyrics of a Beatles' hit song (a reminiscence of "Back to the Future"'s 'Johnny B. Goode'), she understands very soon that her life is her story, she had kids with Charlie and she misses them. My father often wondered what if he didn't do this or that, I generally suggest him not to ask such questions because maybe if he had succeeded, I wouldn't have existed, and my brothers wouldn't. I guess the wisdom is still to resign to what we have done, to conjugate our lives in the future and not turn it into a bunch of 'would'. It's hard to deal with, but we have no choice, and maybe it's better that we can't, imagine Peggy Sue's spell in the hands of malevolent people. "Peggy Sue Got Married" handles its material with relative intelligence and tenderness. Yet the movie is not without flaws and this comes from a fan of Coppola, some casting choices are much debatable, notably those guided by his fatherly instinct, and a bunch of jokes fall flat. Yes, there is a reason why the film isn't as highly regarded as "Back to the Future" or "Groundhog Day" I guess if it weren't for Kathleen Turner's extraordinary performance, it would have been easily forgotten. But well, if there is one thing we learn from the film it's that what is done is done and we should deal with it and consider the essential, the heart and the message. On that level, "Peggy Sue" is still a charming and heart-warming coming(back)-to-age story conveying an irresistible bittersweet feeling.

bcroman39 This film is so well thought out and touching, it is one of my favorite films ever and I watch it any time I find it on TV. I am not one to watch things repeatedly so that says a lot. I think one of the things that makes it so special is the heartfelt acting by Kathleen Turner. Being able to go back and experience all the things you take for granted as a teen only from the mindset of an adult changes everything. Who among us hasn't wished we could do things differently? appreciate our parents when they were younger, spend more time with now lost loved ones, remember why we fell in love with the person we have been with so long we sometimes forget who they used to be? Remembering what it felt like, our innocence, our idealistic view of the world, all the dreams we had for ourselves and our future. So many parts are sentimental and make you tear up, and yet it still has just the right balance of comedy, seeing how silly we really were and how dumb so many things we worried about were when we were kids. Looking back, I realize there are so many things I would like to have done differently, I wonder if it would have changed anything, and Peggy Sue gets to do that. Imagine reliving your high school time with the wisdom and knowledge you have now. I think anyone over 30 can find plenty to relate to while watching this but I find that the older I get, the better this movie gets. This movie makes you think about how you lived your life and maybe, it will also make you think about how to live the rest of your life. I just love this movie on so many levels.