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This type of picture doesn't always turn out that good but with Just Like Heaven, luckily it wound up being pretty good. For fans of sweet rather ethereal romantic flicks they might want to check this one out. It's really adorable and a lot of fun to watch.
With a movie like this, the Chemistry factor really needs to be there between the the two romantic leads. With Just Like Heaven, we get Reese Witherspoon as the reserved, down to earth Doctor and Mark Ruffalo as the man who winds up falling in love with her. I adored this pairing. The two of them easily had enough chemistry to carry the picture. I think this is the best pairing I've seen for Ruffalo and though I don't think that's so with Witherspoon(nothing can beat her and Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk The Line") it was definitely more then enough. In fact the last scene where they come together, highlights their chemistry extremely well and was a great, really great closing scene to a very sweet romantic movie. The garden cinematography was breathtaking as well.
People who are not fans of the sugar sweet will probably want to stay away from this one but I liked it a lot and will say that there have not been a lot of movies like this in the last few years that have been up there in terms of being enjoyable, sweet, and well made in general and I think Just Like Heaven is.
I would't give this a 10 of 10(It was of coarse predictable and there were some things that tried to be funny that were not.) But I would definitely recommend this to fans of the whimsical romance. It reminded me somewhat of "Heaven Can Wait" which was a favorite of mine growing up. It's a charmer and I thought it was above average. My vote's 7.5 out of 10.
This type of picture doesn't always turn out that good but with Just Like Heaven, luckily it wound up being pretty good. For fans of sweet rather ethereal romantic flicks they might want to check this one out. It's really adorable and a lot of fun to watch.
With a movie like this, the Chemistry factor really needs to be there between the the two romantic leads. With Just Like Heaven, we get Reese Witherspoon as the reserved, down to earth Doctor and Mark Ruffalo as the man who winds up falling in love with her. I adored this pairing. The two of them easily had enough chemistry to carry the picture. I think this is the best pairing I've seen for Ruffalo and though I don't think that's so with Witherspoon(nothing can beat her and Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk The Line") it was definitely more then enough. In fact the last scene where they come together, highlights their chemistry extremely well and was a great, really great closing scene to a very sweet romantic movie. The garden cinematography was breathtaking as well.
People who are not fans of the sugar sweet will probably want to stay away from this one but I liked it a lot and will say that there have not been a lot of movies like this in the last few years that have been up there in terms of being enjoyable, sweet, and well made in general and I think Just Like Heaven is.
I would't give this a 10 of 10(It was of coarse predictable and there were some things that tried to be funny that were not.) But I would definitely recommend this to fans of the whimsical romance. It reminded me somewhat of "Heaven Can Wait" which was a favorite of mine growing up. It's a charmer and I thought it was above average. My vote's 7.5 out of 10.