RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
RT's Blu-ray HQ
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / Kate and Leopold
Kate and Leopold

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon
Bookmark and Share

Kate and Leopold (2001)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
47 %
Tomatometer
Template ImageTemplate Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted:116

Fresh:55

Rotten:61

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: Though Jackman charms, Kate and Leopold is bland and predictable, and the time travel scenario lacks inner logic.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for brief strong language

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $47,095,453

Synopsis: MEG RYAN and HUGH JACKMAN star in KATE & LEOPOLD, the story of two strangers in New York City, separated by a hundred years. When they meet, a century's worth of differences come crashing together.... MEG RYAN and HUGH JACKMAN star in KATE & LEOPOLD, the story of two strangers in New York City, separated by a hundred years. When they meet, a century's worth of differences come crashing together.

Kate McKay is a modern-day executive, a 21st century woman driven to succeed in the corporate world. Leopold, the Third Duke of Albany, is a charming 19th century bachelor. Each has grown weary of waiting for love. But when a dramatic twist of fate lands Leopold in present-day New York, they must confront the prospect of a love affair 100 years in the making.

LIEV SCHREIBER (the "Scream" trilogy, "A Walk on the Moon") co-stars as Kate's genius ex-boyfriend Stuart, who discovers the portal that accidentally transports his great great grandfather Leopold from 1867 to the new millenium. Also co-starring are BRECKIN MEYER ("Go," "Roadtrip," television's "Inside Schwartz") as Kate's brother Charlie, NATASHA LYONNE ("American Pie," "Slums of Beverly Hills") as her loyal assistant Darci, and BRADLEY WHITFORD (television's "The West Wing") as J.J., Kate's boss.

KATE & LEOPOLD is directed and co-written by JAMES MANGOLD (director/co-writer of "Girl, Interrupted" and director/writer of "Cop Land"). CATHY KONRAD (producer of the "Scream" trilogy, "Girl, Interrupted," and the upcoming "The Sweetest Thing," starring Cameron Diaz) is the film's producer. -- © 2001 Miramax [More]

Starring: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne

Starring: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne, Liev Schreiber, Charlotte Ayanna, Bradley Whitford

Director: James Mangold

Director: James Mangold
Screenwriter: Steven Rogers, James Mangold
Story: Steven Rogers
Producer: Cathy Konrad
Composer: Rolfe Kent
Studio: Miramax Films

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
1 - 5 of 5

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 
Buy DVD
 
 
Release:

Jun 11, 2002

No Details Exist
 
 

Reviews for Kate and Leopold

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
101 - 120 (sorted by date)
Text View | |< << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >> >|
Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 

Cute or not, Ryan is starting to seem like a stubborn homecoming queen who refuses to surrender her tiara.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
12/24/01
Paul Tatara
Paul Tatara
CNN.com

An oppressively cute Manhattan time-travel romantic comedy that's lost in time, space and cliches.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
12/24/01
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Has the sex appeal of a Road Runner cartoon, one-tenth the laughs and equal plausibility.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | comment Comment
12/24/01
Lawrence Toppman
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

Mangold achieves a light, bouncy tone that matches both the story and Ryan's own natural charms without resorting to the cloying, artificially sweetened feel of such outings as You've Got Mail.

Full Review Source: Fresno Bee | comment Comment
12/24/01
Donald Munro
Donald Munro
Fresno Bee

Hugh Jackman is a delight as Leopold, the perfect gentleman who's a model of urbanity and civility so desperately missing from our times.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
12/24/01
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

The blandness of the material translates into extreme wastefulness.

Full Review Source: Matinee Magazine | comment Comment
12/23/01
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

Winning fluff, easy to take and easy to like--the rare example of its genre that's genuinely enjoyable.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
12/23/01
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
12/23/01
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Philadelphia City Paper | comment Comment
12/22/01
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Philadelphia City Paper

Kate & Leopold is is as gracious and charming as its hero, Leopold (Hugh Jackman), the third Duke of Albany.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
12/21/01
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Flies on the sweet chemistry of Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
12/21/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

As Leopold ... Jackman is the perfect mix of rogue and gentleman.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
12/21/01
Betsy Bozdech
Betsy Bozdech
Reel.com

A 19th-century duke is transported into the present and becomes a commercial spokesman for margarine. Wait, wasn't that a Bewitched episode?

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
12/21/01
E! Online

This bland, taffy-pulled, over-long go-round, like something put together by market research, lacks most of the essentials of true love -- heart, passion, sexuality, excitement etc. etc.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
12/21/01
Bridget Byrne
Bridget Byrne
Boxoffice Magazine

Roll with the fantasy, and it's possible to enjoy yourself -- modestly.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
12/21/01
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Will they fall in love? Does Fabio use conditioner?

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
12/21/01
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

I seriously doubt it would have even gotten past the internet phase of Miramax’s Project Greenlight.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/20/01
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com

All play and no work makes Jackman, as Leopold, a doll of a boyfriend.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
12/20/01
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

It’s a decent alternative when you find all the big event movies are sold out [and] you won’t need a hankie, either.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
12/19/01
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Fanciful and imaginative, creative and backed with high power production at all levels. *The reviewer stands to applaud

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
12/19/01
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card
 
 
101 - 120 (sorted by date)
Text View | |< << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >> >|
all

Latest News for Kate and Leopold

February 21, 2006: Mangold Climbs Aboard the "3:10 to Yuma"
"Walk the Line" director James Mangold has his next project ready to roll. It's a remake of the 1957 western "3:10 to Yuma," which he'll be putting together... More...

December 10, 2001: The director of the emotionally taxing Heavy, Cop Land, and Girl, Interrupted isn't one for taking the easy way out. Opens in new window
More...

November 28, 2001: It seems to have many similarities to Sandra Bullock’s first romantic comedy, While You Were Sleeping. Opens in new window
More...

See All

More DVDs

Close
Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
66% 66% Public Enemies
83% 83% Harry Potter and the H…
44% 44% Night at the Museum: B…
75% 75% Julie & Julia
32% 32% Terminator Salvation

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
88% 88% Inglourious Basterds
78% 78% The Hangover
49% 49% Taking Woodstock
26% 26% The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
47% 47% The Girl From Monaco

More New Releases…

RT On Current TV

DIRECTV 358 | Comcast 107 | DISH Network 196

What’s Hot On RT

James Cameron

James Cameron

We look at the Avatar director's career

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Check out the brand new trailer now!

SAG Awards

SAG Awards

Find out who got nominated!

Nominee Gallery

Nominee Gallery

See who got nominated for Golden Globes!

Other News

Close
  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Bryan Singer Returning to X-Men for First Class Source: Superhero Hype
64
  • Mark Strong Talks Kick-Ass, John Carter, and Robin Hood Source: Collider.com
1
  • How Avatar Happened: The Path to Innovation Source: CinemaBlend.com
19
  • Rob Marshall Says Pirates 4 Is Still a Maybe Source: ComingSoon.net
30
  • ET Teases Iron Man 2 Teaser Source: Collider.com
28
  • Tobey Maguire Refutes Hobbit Rumors Source: Hollywood Reporter
9
  • Prince of Persia Featurette Posted Source: Yahoo! Movies
4
  • Trailer Bulletin: Robin Hood Source: ComingSoon.net
61
  • Mel Gibson Plans a Mexican Vacation Source: Variety
8
  • New Iron Man 2 Clue Posted Source: Screen Rant
26
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Tomatometer Watch: Will Avatar Live Up To The Hype?
237
  • Awards Tour 2009: Golden Globe Noms Here!
143
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Girlpower Rules Again with Princess at #1
70
  • Total Recall: James Cameron Movies
66
  • Awards Tour 2009: Inglourious Basterds Lead Critics Choice Noms
44
  • Awards Tour 2009: Avatar Best Picture at NYFCO!
38
  • Weekly Ketchup: James Cameron Plans a Fantastic Voyage
33
  • The Effects of Where the Wild Things Are
30
  • Awards Tour 2009: SAG Nominations Are In!
27
  • Critics Consensus: Avatar Is Certified Fresh
27
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • Robert Downey Jr. talks Sherlock Holmes & Iron Man 2 - RT Interview
21
  • Director Ruben Fleischer Talks Zombieland
2
  • "I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist
17
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
12
  • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary
23
  • James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview
8
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
15
  • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus
24
  • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview
9
  • Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film
28
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • Kate and Leopold at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Kate and Leopold at IGN
  • Kate and Leopold at AskMen

Fresh Links

Featured
MSN's Year in Review
MSN's Year in Review External Link

Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.

40 Best Films of the 2000s
40 Best Films of the 2000s External Link

Last week, Moviefone offered us their worst films of the 2000s. Now see their 40 best!

Tarantino's Characters
Tarantino's Characters External Link

Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.

Top 10 Movies of 2009
Top 10 Movies of 2009 External Link

TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.

Top 20 of the Decade
Top 20 of the Decade External Link

Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!

Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Follow RT on Twitter External Link

Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.