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| YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998) - PG
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ReviewScore: 58 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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"Cute" appears to be the unavoidable adjective for critics reviewing You've Got Mail. So charmed are most of them by the chaste goings-on in the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks comedy about an e-mail romance ("There's more sex in any old Doris Day-Rock Hudson farce," writes Susan Wloszczyna in USA Today) that, by comparison, those who find fault with it sound rather mean spirited and crass. "There's no swapping spit in cyberspace, so playing post office just isn't what it used to be," writes Rita Kempley in the Washington Post. "The Internet," she continues, "is unlikely to replace intercourse." Yet, even Kempley finds the movie "aggressively adorable." Likewise Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News: "[Hanks] indulges in too much nice-guy schtick. ... Mr. Hanks should realize that the screen inflates everything, including a mild case of pomposity." Many of the critics comment on the productive "chemistry" of Hanks and Ryan. "It's a winning combination," comments Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News. "Cheerily companionable," writes Rod Dreher in the New York Post. "A match made in heaven," is Peter Howell's description in the Toronto Star. |
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