Fools in rush9/25/2023 ![]() ![]() It includes mild profanity and brief, mild sexual situations.ĭirected by Andy Tennant written by Katherine Reback, based on a story by Joan Taylor and Ms. "Fools Rush In" is rated PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned). Or of finding real heat or humor along the way. Of Alex and Isabel, also add a little comic flair.īut the film never gets past the unlikelihood that its characters have much chance of living happily ever after. Jon Tenney and Siobhan Fallon, as the respective best friends The parents' meeting, with Jill Clayburgh quite funny as Alex's drunkenly oblivious mother, is one of the spikier episodes in an otherwise bland and euphemistic story. "Now that is what I call a housekeeper," declares Alex's father, a WASP from New Canaan, Conn., when he first spies Isabel. Then Isabel's stereotypical Mexican relatives surprise Alex by painting the place in loud colors. So Alex keeps his Nevada apartment white and barren, without bothering to tell Isabel that he actually lives in New York and dreams of building a nightclub near the Royalton. "Fools Rush In," directed by Andy Tennant ("It Takes Two") and written by Katherine Reback (from a story she wrote with Joan Taylor), means to find humor in the essentially snobbish misunderstandings that threaten the Fuentes-Whitman Protective father (Tomas Milian) to come after Alex with a baseball bat, a sure sign that there will be trouble in paradise. Learning that his one-night stand is pregnant, Alex reluctantly decides to marry her Las Vegas style, with an Elvis impersonator as best man. Then, three months after that first meeting, Isabel is eating telltale saltines. More local color comesįrom a soundtrack on which Wayne Newton sings "Danke Schoen."Īlex originally goes west because he has been sent to work on a Las Vegas construction project. Several scenes are set atop the dam at the Arizona-Nevada state line. One of the film's odder flashes of originality is its assumption that the precise middle ground between Alex and Isabel is at the Hoover Dam. Hayek's Isabel Fuentes is first seen floating peacefully down a Mexican river on an inner tube. (The same delivery can be hilarious on "Friends," but it's lost in scenes that lack "Who are you people and why don't you work for a living?" Perry's Alex Whitman quips smugly at a New York office party. The movie is supposed to be about culture clash and winds up with more than it bargained for. However, her naivete contrasts awkwardly with the glibness of Perry, whose clever way with a one-liner turns into terminal facetiousness here. ![]() Sure, she danced half naked with a huge white snake in "From Dusk Till Dawn," but thisĪctress still manages to suggest that the bloom is not off the rose. Though the two stars meet at the toilet in a Mexican restaurant and immediately go to bed (off camera), Ms. His leading lady is Salma Hayek, beaming ingenue and proud owner of the best midriff in movies. Railing a cloud of television stardom, Matthew Perry of "Friends" plays a wisecracking New York-based real-estate developer in "Fools Rush In," a lacklusterĬomedy about a shotgun wedding.
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