Isn’t it random?!

He went to the Ted Mosby school of grieving.

I recently rewatched this with my 17-year-old brother while home for the holidays. He’d never seen it before, and was CONVINCED that pay off of the Andrew Lincoln-Kiera Knightly storyline was going to be the former admitting he was in love with Kiera’s new husband. To see this through the eyes of a 2018 teenager no…

It always bothered me that Liam Neeson’s story starts at his wife’s funeral, and then a month later he’s pretty much planning to go after Claudia Schiffer, and his step-son is cool with it.  I know everyone’s mourning time is different, but one fucking month!? 

I remember reading a review of this movie that made the point that the entire plot revolves around the fact that you as the audience have to believe that Patrick Dempsey would find this random woman on the street who is covered in dirt and talking crazy and then bring him home to spend the night in the same apartment…

I love it. That scene is just a chemical reaction of Movie New York meeting Disney Princess Classic. Of *course* the whole city danced with her!

Marsden was one of those guys I was pretty dismissive of at first, but this movie was arguably the first stop in getting me to reassess and appreciate his talents.

“That’s How You Know” is so infectious. Still stands the test of time even after all these years.

Amy Adams is such a joy in this, with as you noted zero winking.  The way she throws herself into sadness when she meets the couple getting a divorce.  Patrick Dempsey does do one great wink:  “Why do people keep giving you things?”

She had also been Oscar nominated for “Junebug” in 2005.

I actually found it refreshing. Idina can do more than just musicals. 

How can anyone call Amy Adams boring?! The perfect counter argument to that is to watch any scene of hers in Enchanted and then any scene of hers in Sharp Objects. Case closed.

Maybe he’s so handsome people subconsciously decide “Maybe you shouldn’t get everything.” He’s great though. Love when he does comedy. 

It’s a pity. It’s so helpful when you run out of things to say.

I really loved this movie when I saw it, but that was a decade ago—I feel I owe it to myself to see it again.

i watched every WB cartoon many times as a kid and have yet to drop an anvil on anyones head.

Wow, just realised that in almost everything in the past two decades that I’ve seen James Marsden act in, he’s always cast as the nice handsome dude who on paper is perfectly fine for the leading lady. And yet, he’s not quite what she wants, and he ends up being more into her than she is into him.

“Whatever “just sit around and wait for a prince!” messaging Disney princesses theoretically brainwash into young girls clearly didn’t happen to me.”

first time I saw Amy Adams was in Junebug. Her line reading of “you where not...” when her sister-in-law tells her that she was born in Africa, was brilliant, and feels like the audition for this role.

this feature is so good - this and Age of Heroes is some of the best movie criticism around right now. And well done AVClub too - this is exactly the features we want on this site.