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 Kate And Leopold (DVD)
 Kate And Leopold (DVD) ... 03 February, 2003 at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / On its theatrical release, James Mangold's romantic comedy Kate & Leopold was rightly panned for holes in the logic of its time-travel plot. Stewart (Liev Schreiber) finds a portal to 1876 and goes to observe his ancestor Leopold, Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman) who then follows him back to 2001. Since Leopold is responsible for inventing a key component in lifts, this instantly causes problems. The gallant Leopold charms, and is charmed by Stewart's ex, Kate (Meg Ryan), a hard-boiled cynical marketing expert who finds in Victorian idealism a corrective to her view of the world. And this is part of the problem with the film--we cannot entirely believe in Meg Ryan as a cynic, or that her problems can be resolved by going off to 1876 to be with her aristocratic sweetie, and much of the film has an oddly sour hostility to its heroine. Hugh Jackman is a delight in the fish-out-of-water scenes and Breckin Meyer is also very funny as Kate's actor brother, who assumes Leopold is a colleague sunk deep into the creation of a part. On the DVD Kate and Leopold has crisp Dolby 5:1 sound, which allows the very different acoustics of the two historical periods to be neatly contrasted, and is presented in anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen. We get both the theatrical and Director's cut, both offered with commentary, though the Director's cut audio track is more polemical. The Director's cut restores some expository material and makes more sense. --Roz KaveneyNewest Review: ... Ryan but in this movie she didn't look like the same actress from When Harry met Sally or Sleepless in Seatle, she was harder ... more ... somehow and not very warm.
The actual plot behind the story was extremely far fetched but that would not have been a problem had the movie used all the opportunites to make the audience laugh but instead there seemed to be alot of pointless filler, wereby the characters did things that were boring and irrelevant to the storyline.
I also found that it took so long to get to the point that the film was half an hour too long.
I didn't hate the film in fact there were some very good moments and as I love rom coms s...more |
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Kate And Leopold [DVD] [2002]
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Kate And Leopold (DVD): My Time Travelling Friend (1289 words)
by - written on 14/01/08 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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Kate is a top New York advertising executive with everything to live for; a new promotion, a great apartment and the financial means to help her struggling, out-of-work actor brother. But when her ex boyfriend, Stuart (a science geek) finds a portal in the space time continuum and is transported to the 1800's, her life in thrust into chaos and romance. Leopold is a well-to-do socialite, whose family is suffering from financial ruin, the solution to this? Marry a rich woman... But he cannot bring himself to marry someone who does not have his heart. So, seeing Stuart in his 1800's world, he decides to chase him, being transported back to modern day New York City... A ... Read the complete review
A dopey bit of fluff (725 words)
by - written on 13/05/03 (Very useful, 1203 readings)
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Kate and Leopard is a dopey, fluffy, girly film with queen of girly romantic comedy Meg Ryan. I did enjoy it, but if you are male or want to watch something a bit more stimulating you won?t be too impressed with it. I thought it tried to be a bit like a modern fairy tale, but didn't quite work and just ended up being fluffy. Leopold (Hugh Jackman) is the Duke of Albany who lives a privileged life in 1876 New York. He?s a bit of a dreamer and doesn?t feel like a duke, his guardian and Uncle urges him to grow up and marry a rich girl, as the family fortune isn't quite what it was. Leopard goes to a ball hosted by his Uncle, with the instruction to dance ... Read the complete review
Kate And Leopold (DVD): Time no barrier for true love (570 words)
by - written on 24/02/06 (Very useful, 99 readings)
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The Plot ========== Kate McKay (Meg Ryan) is a top executive at a New York public relations firm. Stuart (Liev Schreiber) is Kate’s annoying ex who lives in the apartment upstairs. He discovers the secret to time travel and goes back to 1876 to see what it was like. He is spotted by Leopold, an aristocratic Englishman living in 19th century New York who follows him through a 'wrinkle in the fabric of time' ends up in modern times. As Leopold is responsible for inventing lifts in his future, as soon as he steps into 2001, all the lifts stop working. Stuart wants to return Leopold as soon as possible but unfortunately he falls down a lift shaft (due ... Read the complete review
An unusual fairytale that's not as good as it looks. (175 words)
by - written on 04/08/08 (Useful, 33 readings)
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I actually went to the cinema to watch this film when it came out and found myself so very bored. I really enjoy romantic comedies and I love Meg Ryan but in this movie she didn't look like the same actress from When Harry met Sally or Sleepless in Seatle, she was harder somehow and not very warm. The actual plot behind the story was extremely far fetched but that would not have been a problem had the movie used all the opportunites to make the audience laugh but instead there seemed to be alot of pointless filler, wereby the characters did things that were boring and irrelevant to the storyline. I also found that it took so long to ... Read the complete review
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