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A romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf.
Although film is a bit uneven, production benefits from a tasty look, an airy tone, and a delectable, unblemished performance from Hannah.
It's too bad the relentlessly conventional minds that made this movie couldn't have made the leap from sitcom to comedy.
Splash may feature a heroine with fins, but it's mostly a standard love story, albeit one with some delightful new twists.
Its appeal is based almost entirely on regression -- a thematic regression to infancy and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.
Fishy fairy tale the wrong hook on relationships.
Director Ron Howard has a good sense of the whimsical, and his film is sweet and unpretentious, though somewhat ribald when one realizes the studio from whence it sprang.
The movie that really showed Tom Hanks' promise as a deliverer of great comedy and heart-warming pathos.
Hannah does wonders with her thankless job, flitting tiny moments of joy and confusion across her face.
Howard demonstrates exactly the correct soft touch, skirting the myriad problems of taste.
It's all been downhill from here for Ron Howard
Very dated, but still fun
Splash is a light-hearted comedy directed by Ron Howard that sparkles here and there thanks to its fairy tale elements.
Splash is probably the ultimate fish-out-of-water film, primarily because it literally features a fish out of water.
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