Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are both such effortlessly likeable people on screen, it is no surprise they have such an easy chemistry on screen even where - here like in Sleepless in Seattle - they spend much of the movie apart. You've Got Mail is no classic, it's no breakthrough, it does not feature any star turn, stand out, performances - though I liked Maureen Stapleton's part - just very good actors acting very well (Dabney Coleman plays the Dabney Coleman part like it was written for him; Greg Kinnear plays the solipsistic writer with the right touch of egoism and obliviousness). It does not feature a particularly memorable story, and the dialogue is straight from Snappy Dialogues R Us, but you know, it is still a fun way to spend some time being entertained, laughing, and passing your wife a hankie if - like mine - she tends to cry when movies want you to cry.
Review of You've Got Mail
