Critique the critic

I read a film review of "27 Dresses" by James Berardinelli. He seemed to enjoy this movie as did I. This movie was released in January, the same time that "Cloverfield" came out. James gave it two and a half stars out of four. I would have given it three or three and half but still was a pretty good rating. Mr. Berardinelli stated that "All a picture like this needs to succeed are charming actors who convince us they're in love. Everything else is beside the point." I definitely agree with him on that. A movie obviously needs a good story line but to complete it, it really needs great actors who are convincing. Katherine Heigl and James Marsden were two perfect actors for the lead roles in this film. He said it followed a strict story line of a romantic comedy; which it did. At times this movie made me laugh but at other times i was about to cry. He gave a good explanation of what this movie was about. Even if i had not already seen this movie, from his film review, i would have wanted to. He made it sound like a well made romantic comedy. Although througout some of his writing i believe there was unimportant information he added to this review. Such as right at the beginning when he was talking about the release date. I did not think that was important enough to put into a review especially at the beginning. Reading the review more in depth and over again I realized maybe he did not like this movie as much as i first remembering reading he did. He thought it was a well created and developed movie but according to him watching this new film was "Like to down a handful of chocolate covered raisins. They're not filling or nourishing but they provide a moment's forgettable pleasure." I disagreed with James on this, I thought this was a satisfying movie and well worth the eight dollar fee to see it. Our opinions may differ on this movie because it is more of a "Chick Flick". He keyed into the main point of this movie, which was the 27 dresses this woman had and explained why she had all of them and gave background information on her. I cannot really think of another movie to relate this to because it was a one of a kind story. The way he described the actors and actresses, besides me already knowing who one of the main characters are, made it sound that the characters knew what they were doing, played the part well and were a joy to watch. Typically before i see a movie i would like to watch the movie trailor; but Mr. Berardinelli did an almost spectacular job on describing the characters, setting up the plot and bringing to life, using our imagination, the details that made this movie so wonderful. James Berardinelli is a popular fiml critic amond this site and he did do a very good and well written job on this film review. Although some of our opinions differed some i felt a similar way as i read the review. This was a great film review and if i were to rate the actual review, not the movie, i would give this one three and a half stars out of four. Nice job James!

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