Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

jan-603 This is one of the dullest, most boring movies we've ever tried to watch. I don't know what movie the positive reviewers saw - it couldn't have been the same one!We made it through 22 agonizing minutes, and only stayed around that long because of the rave reviews. We kept hoping it would get better, but it only got worse and worse.The writing is blah, the acting wooden, and none of the characters seemed like real people. Forget this one, and see Sleepless in Seattle instead.I liked Hope Davis in Mumford - a far better film. She just looks tired and bored in this one.

nadjwa77 This film may not win over everyone with its subtlety and relaxed pace, but it is one of the most genuine depictions of love and dating in this day and age. Hope Davis gives a wonderful performance as a jaded young woman, tired of meeting too many Mr. Wrong's, yet still maintaining some hope that the right one is out there. Her performance is nuanced and very believable. Alan Gelfant is wonderful as her other half, so to speak, someone also searching for his path in life, and someone who understands him. He is amazing in this role and makes you fall completely for him. Just watch for his smile, which will make you melt. Great film for someone who wants to remind themselves that there might just be "the one" out there waiting to find you. The soundtrack is excellent, providing the film with a sense of melancholy and nostalgia. Enjoy!

sailor_rubi This movie really makes you think... It's one of those times when you are watching TV, and you just keep changing the channel, and then you see a scene that makes you watch a little bit longer, and then a little bit longer more, until you end up watching the entire movie. If you expect a overly romantic film, this is not for you, I believe this movie was made to observe life and it's mysterious ways to get you to fall in love, You make (what it seems) a silly choice and it affects you in everyway possible, but the best thing it's that you don't know it, and in the end everything is going to be all right. It also portrays very well that life doesn't start when you fall in love, but it gets better.

jpschapira One of my life objectives is to watch every single movie with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it. Since I saw him in a movie I've said I never finished watching ("State and Main"), I have been in love with his way of working; his body language and mostly his voice. While I may sound exaggerated, it's something I'm trying to do, and it gets me to peculiar places; like "Next Stop Wonderland".Hoffman is not an important player in the film, even when he appears at the beginning. As Sean, he is dumping his girlfriend, Erin (Hope Davis), the most important player in the film. How the filmmakers have created Erin is remarkable. It had been a long time since I've seen a well-rounded character like this one. She's eccentric, tough, and now extremely depressed as abandoned by the man she loves. She spends her lonely days reading random phrases in a book written by her father. She loves that.However, her elegant mother Piper (Holland Taylor) puts an ad in the newspaper, proposing a single, outgoing, charming and likable woman looking for a couple. "That's not me mom…That's you!", Erin tells her mother gently. Now Erin finds herself with calls and messages from men whose ages start in 30 and end in 50; no advices from her gay friends.Continuing, Erin encounters different guys in one bar, and they try to win her with metaphoric phrases, without knowing the authors she knows by heart; cultured comments she knows are clichéd, and in one case sweet talking that ends up in a wedding ring falling out of a wallet. This scene shows the comedic talent of director Brad Anderson, and his writing collaborator Lyn Vaus. They also show other talents, like the dramatic one, as they keep their characters realistic enough so we understand how they feel when things occur to them.Some guys are making a bet to win Erin. One of them is Alan's (Alan Gelfant) brother. Although this seems like the other side of the world, it's in the same city where this Alan works in the aquarium as he studies to become wiser about that. He's already an old man, but is cultured as no one around him, and passionate about what he does (kind of like Erin, right?). Even when Erin and Alan are so similar; each of them doesn't know the other exists. They have crossed sometimes probably, but while Alan experiences a relationship with a younger girl that claims to love him, Erin is approached by every old guy in a bar and almost conquered by a Brazilian "Latin lover"…But it doesn't seem right.Brad Anderson loves his characters and when his camera moves fast at times and slowly at others, we sense he cares about his actors work. That's why Hope Davis shines in this role, which is comedic and different to what we usually get from her. Besides, she got into the park, and so did Alan Gelfant, who talks and looks like a young Sylvester Stallone but with more comedic gifts than the latter would ever dream of.Don't bother yourself asking if these two characters belong together because thy do. But at 100 minutes of film, Brad Anderson stops in Wonderland and encounters the leads. But he is so original and so far away from typical film-making that he won't give you what you're expecting for, like everyone does. He will leave it to your imagination.