Addicted to Love

I thought this movie was pretty average as romantic comedies go, and frighteningly similar to Meg Ryan's previous vehicle "French Kiss", which saw Kevin Kline playing a Frenchman she falls for, enroute to getting her cheating fiancé back. "Addicted To Love" could have easily been the sequel! That aside, my one objection is not only the lack of chemistry between the two leads, but also the fact that we are launched into the action far too quickly. One imagines the writer/director desperate to start the story and not being bothered to establish the relationship between Sam and Linda, before BOOM! She leaves him and Sam is in New York, all within a few minutes and seconds. The credits had barely finished!! I found the character of Maggie difficult to get a grip on. Independent and wilful, one finds it hard to imagine what she sees in the dappy, love-sick puppy, Sam. They are in such completely different leagues. Sam quips that they got together via "Common interests", but this is not enough somehow, since the characters really do not have anything in common, despite trying to separate their ex-lovers. **SPOILER WARNING**: In another scene, Sam and Maggie sleep together whilst fantasising that she is Linda and he is Anton. Yet Maggie's justification for sleeping with Sam is not made clear - she hates Anton and frequently says so. If she slept with Sam because she was falling for him this should have been made clearer, since he sleeps with her whilst pretending she is Linda whom he still loves. Although good, perhaps this scene could have been cut as it is confusing and largely irrelevant. The rest of the film was OK, the pranks were cruel but effective. More focus should have been made on the relationship between the two leads.

Addicted to Love

I love a good black comedy and this is one of my favorites. It's also fun to watch a movie pre-smart phone and webcams when it involves stalking. And that's what Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan are in this film. Likeable stalkers. I especially like Meg Ryan's character Maggie. It's a departure from her usual "America's Sweetheart" roles she often played in the 80s. She's a tough bad girl type instead and I love it. Matthew Broderick as Sam is his usual neurotic self but he does it well. Even though it's a farce, the overall message of the movie is the importance of moving on after an unexpected or nasty break up. You can't make someone stay when they have fallen out of love with you no matter what crazy lengths you go through. But watching those crazy lengths in this movie is funny!

The young scientist is thrown by(with) the bride, and it(he) tries at a minimum of efforts to return her(it). Suddenly there is a girl, which has thrown her(it) boy for the sake of that bride, and begins the vigorous activity on "destruction" former boy.

Exhilarating! Glory in the revenge you've always wanted but never dared try. Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick explore the depths of their characters by finding love in the worst possible circumstances.

I must say I really enjoyed this movie. Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan have wonderful chemistry. The really good part about this movie is that you really could see possibilities of Matthew going back to Kelly Preston or Meg Ryan. It makes you guess until the very end. It was really good and incurably romantic although you might not think so from the premise.

This is one of the best romantic comedies I have seen in a long time. "Addicted to Love" is unusual, surprising, and - above all - very funny. The acting by all the four main characters is outstanding. I loved the movie because it has all the ingredients of a great romantic comedy with a cute couple and a long find-your-love story, but it adds to it some wit. This is a very fun movie to watch! The fantastic soundtrack makes the movie even better. I bought the soundtrack even before I had seen the movie because I liked listening to it so much in the Munich store where I found it. This truly is romantic comedy at its best. I just have to tell you that again! :-D

I'm sorry to all those who hated this movie, but this is seriously my favorite movie. I think it's funny and really well written and I love Meg and Matthew. I'm not saying, 'go and see it because I know you'll love it' I'm just saying that I loved it. I hate people who say 'worst movie ever' because I think we all know that it isn't. You're probably wondering why this is my favorite movie. I don't know if it's my absolute favorite right now, but it's been number 1 for quite some time. I know there are better made movies that have won Academy Awards and all that jazz. But I consider myself unique in liking this particular film.

What in the world is the matter with all these people that don't like/ only mildly like this movie? Screenplay is brilliant. Plot, characterization, style. All likeable characters, admirable in their own regards despite very funny flaws. Robert Gordon has an excellent future if he can keep writing screenplays of this quality.

The obsessive nature of romantic love, the ardor and persistence of rejected suitors are highly complementary to the intensity of life in Manhattan, the setting. Of course, the setting is also appropriate for the idea of spying through windows. Haven't we all yearned for the love object and ridiculously obsessed about them after failing in romance? The ingenuity of invention displayed by the characters played by Meg Ryan, the more radical of the two, and Matthew Broderick, who appears the more normal one to the mainstream audience, is very amusing. Griffin Dunne showed wonderful taste in directing this movie. It's interesting, witty, and the production values are good.