Sweet Home Alabama

I’m not sure why I went to see this. I do think that Reece Witherspoon is an excellent actress, and if Election is cheap on DVD I’ll get hold of a copy. Aside from the fact that I had a voucher to get me in free which expires tomorrow, the reason was this review from Philip French of The Observer. I am of course already tracking down a copy of Pursuits of Happiness. Any reference to the classic screwball comedies from the Hollywood of yesterday is probably enough to make me check it out.
So this is overlong, and not nearly as full of one-liners as those films were, but not as bad as it could have been. Oh dear – that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement is it. I guess I thought that the Alabama characters were just a little bit too forgiving after Witherspoon’s character was well and truly foul to them. And a few more gags along the way would have been welcome. The sheriff was the only really funny character and more of him would have been welcome.


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