Serendipity: Critic Reviews

Insipid, by-the-numbers romance.

An overfamiliar and exasperating game of cat-and-mousie.

A movie I found myself liking more than perhaps I should.

Fluffy and innocuous as Cool Whip, it is nonetheless uplifting, romantic and delightful, further enhancing the world's enduring love affair with the Big Apple.

Pretty hard to resist as a guilty pleasure.

It's fun watching Cusack, who does lovelorn so well he might be the male version of Meg Ryan.

Serendipity may be calculated, but the good news is that all that hard work never prevents it from being genuinely charming.

Lightweight romance may appeal to teens.

The goofiest movie Nora Ephron never wrote.

...so empty, so derivative

A quimica entre Cusack e Beckinsale e eficaz - pena que, durante a maior parte do tempo, os dois sejam mantidos separados pelo fraco e previsivel roteiro de Marc Klein.

I can't get over the complete reliance on fate even if it is what the movie is all about.

Serendipity director Peter Chelsom gives us charm instead of plot, romance instead of logic.

Serendipity weakens the harder it tries to be cute.

A weaker romantic comedy might have tried harder to use grounded and logical explanations for the movie's string of unlikely coincidences, but Serendipity makes no such attempt. For this, it should be commended.

In some ways, "Serendipity" could be the movie Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan forgot to make 10 years ago. Not since "Sleepless in Seattle" has there been so much onscreen discussion about soulmates and the mystical power of fate.

...would this be (Cusack's) "Sleepless in Seattle", or would I have to sit through another "You've Got Mail"? The answer lies somewhere in between.

True, there are traces of hokum and contrivance plots that will drive you batty at times, but Chelson delivers a film that is occasionally smart about its airheaded premise

Because the script so gleefully indulges in bringing its leads closer together all while making sure they stay just far enough away, we smile instead of groan.

'Serendipity" is a nice light romantic comedy well-suited for the holiday season.

A sugary slab of wish-fulfilment that will have most viewers reaching for the insulin.

Wittily scripted, beautifully played by an excellent cast, and just so darned... nice, this is must-see viewing for the romantics.

Klein's script is at once too airy-fairy and pandering to deliver the charm.

Despite some frustration with the aspects of broad comedy, I am recommending Serendipity on this basis: it's a great date movie.

If you've ever seen a romantic comedy you know how it ends.