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Critics Consensus: Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, Moonstruck is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's most appealing comedies.
Critic Consensus: Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, Moonstruck is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's most appealing comedies.
All Critics (55) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (4) | DVD (7)
Here, at last, is the kind of warm adult comedy that often eludes Hollywood an offbeat exploration of family, fidelity and the foibles of the human heart.
This is a movie that makes you want to sing "Boheme" and walk in the moonlight and move to Brooklyn.
You will not easily forget this incredibly robust family.
An American movie with foreign-film sensibilities, Moonstruck's depths come from their perfect balance of writing and direction.
It isn't great art -- it`s too closely concentrated on immediate emotional effect for that -- but it is highly sophisticated craftsmanship.
There's an old-fashioned romanticism about the picture, a sweet, gentle approach to love and family life. But this is kept from seeming sappy by the picture's tough-minded, almost abrasive sense of humor.
Best performance ever by a musician transitioning from recording studio to silver screen? The incomparable Cher would have to go close here.
At times funny and clever, Moonstruck asks the questions: what does it mean to be in love? and is it ever okay to settle?
Jewison's point seems to be that love may not be perfect, but it can be sweet fun.
Cher is simply wonderful, and the teaming with Cage an inspiration. The rest of the cast couldn't be better.
No resistance could overcome the overfamiliarity of the situations in Moonstruck, the corniness of its dramaturgy or the banality of its message.
Cher and Nicolas Cage have a ball in this ethnic comedy of manners, and there are moments of pure magic when moonlight does its romantic work.
Nicholas Cage is completely miscast as Ronny and his chemistry with Cher is nonexistent, while the movie's script doesn't have that much substance to match its charm and generally effective sense of humor; even so, this romantic comedy makes for an amusing pastime.
Super Reviewer
Good movie about a realistic family, although I'm surprised that both Cher and Olympia Dukakis won Academy awards.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta? Loretta Castorini: Aw, ma, I love him awful. Rose: Oh, God, that's too bad.
nice romantic comedy
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