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Critics Consensus: This romantic comedy may look good on paper, but it's too predictable and melancholy for the genre.
Critic Consensus: This romantic comedy may look good on paper, but it's too predictable and melancholy for the genre.
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Sometimes movies make sense in a logical way; sometimes they make only emotional sense. No Reservations makes no damned sense at all.
No Reservations is worth penciling in to your schedule, though it's more guilty diversion than memorable feast.
A shamelessly microwaved American rewarming of the 2002 German romantic comedy Mostly Martha.
The cast makes the film a warm and agreeable experience.
You don't need to have been a fan of the terrific German film Mostly Martha that inspired this remake, or even to have seen the original, to recognize that her American cousin has a tendency to overcook things.
To see No Reservations is to see what's wrong with a lot of American movies. A remake Mostly Martha, it takes a winning recipe and adds some distinctly Hollywood flavors: It takes adult characters and has them behave like children.
Chalk it up as an alternative to watching a kitchen full of singing rats.
Not bad, not amazing. Just a classy romantic comedy that, like a good meal, is enjoyable enough to partake of, but the taste of which will fade soon thereafter.
Catherine Zeta-Jones controls the kitchen, but can't control my attention.
Like the well-known joke about Chinese fare %u2014 No Reservations satisfies while you're sitting down at the table, but an hour later you're hungry again.
There's nothing in this story that you haven't seen before, and you'll know everything that's going to happen long before it does, yet it's all done with such charm and style that you won't care.
...there's not much sparkle in the movie and even less spark to the love story.
The movie poster suggested "No Reservations" would be a rom-com -- but there was no discernible "com" actually in it. While there certainly was a modicum of romance, the story is much better characterized as a drama focused on a career-minded woman taking on the responsibility of raising her traumatized niece after a terrible tragedy, and who grudgingly allows a cute but insipid male sidekick into the house as a hanger-on. It was entertaining from the professional kitchen angle, but there did not seem to be much leavening in the bread.
Super Reviewer
Ordinary rom-com but Eckhart is appealing.
More romantic/drama than a comedy. It has more heartfelt, feel good moments than any really laugh out loud scenes. Still it was a nice story, with a good cast and well made. Just always a bit predictable.
A nice romantic film that is great for families.
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