Imagine Me & You: Critic Reviews

Congratulations are in order for Rachel's sexual awakening, but we might as well applaud the dull girl for falling in love with the nearest bunch of lilies rather than the florist.

The enervating trifle Imagine Me & You will soon be gathering dust [on the shelves of video stores].

Brit-com business as usual, right down to the outbursts of posh swearing and the fraught, last-minute dash through the London traffic.

Maddening politeness rules the day in this London-based comedy ...

Settles disappointingly for rom-com cliches. It doesn't even bother to explore its own premise.

... though this lesbian-themed entry in the Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral category neatly accomplishes the genre's other requirement, the ability to double as travelogue, its players are availed of precious little wit.

The characterizations are wooden, the interaction maudlin and the plot totally predictable.

There are more imaginative movies, I suppose; but there are also worse ways to spend a gloomy afternoon than in a London photo-shopped to perfection.

Most of the running time is devoted to sitcom devices involving family members, friends, double meanings, close escapes and sincere heart-to-hearts.

I guess there's something progressive going on when a lesbian love story gets to be just as dreadful and tacky as most straight ones.

As formulaic as a trigonometry textbook.

Although Imagine Me & You (never much liked that song) tries to tap into a popular theme, we never believe that Rachel and Luce are the slightest bit interested in one another.

The mainstream auds who would respond best to pic's fluffy aesthetic might balk at its Sapphic storyline, while gay and lesbian viewers will find girl-on-girl action here far too tame.

Applies the posh Britcom formula perfected in hits like Four Weddings and a Funeral to a lesbian romance with slick if fairly mild results.

A surprisingly old-fashioned romantic comedy, a film of lovely British parks, of antiques auctions and cluttered, lived-in homes and very good-looking 30-or-so's trying to be sophisticated.

As nice as it is to imagine popular movies depicting lesbian relationships without guilt or trauma, Imagine Me&You ultimately trips over its own daft enthusiasm.

Everything has its rightful place, everyone has their happy purpose, and you can't help but grin at the sheer winning symmetry of the thing.

Romantic comedies don't get more generic than this one.

Imagine if Kissing Jessica Stein had been made by the Four Weddings and a Funeral people, and you pretty much get the gist of Imagine Me and You, a pleasant if pedestrian British romantic comedy.

Charming, quirky Brit romance has mild gay themes.

A generally pleasant distraction.

Imagine Me & You shamelessly embraces every romantic-comedy cliche in the book.

Imagine Me & You is more about fidelity and respect - or rather the lack thereof. It doesn't matter if the characters are gay, straight or bi. Cheating is cheating.