There's a scene in "Three to Tango" in which the two leads, Neve Campbell and Matthew Perry, are platonically (Well, she is, he really isn't..).. cuddling on his sofa, as they watch Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak in bed together in 1964's remake of "Of Human Bondage." Let's just say that if you're looking for a GOOD romantic movie to rent, leave the former on the shelf and rent the latter, which is a masterpiece of a tear-jerker and doesn't pretend to be something it's not, as does the former.
The two films make an unintentionally ironic comparison of just how good actors used to be, and just how bad they are these days. I couldn't help but grin as I watched Neve Campbell watching Kim Novak and nearly shouted at the screen "See, Neve?? Now THAT'S Acting!"
How many times have we seen the "Three to Tango" plot in the past ten years? A couple million? A case of mistaken intentions and identities as the girl Perry loves must continue to believe he's gay, and thus "safe" to confide in and even live with, because he must pretend to be gay to keep his lucrative contract with the rich jerk who has assigned him to spy on her.. The same rich jerk who she believes she's in love with. Why? If she's so smart and so streetwise and hip and savvy, can't she see what a fool he's playing her for? Of course not, because, if she could, there'd be no movie, would there..
Neve Campbell is nice to look with her ample figure almost falling out of every low-cut costume she's poured into, but at the same time she crosses the line over into the county known as annoying. She forces her cuteness and sexyness, but she doesn't have to.
Matthew Perry plays the same character he plays in "Friends" with a different cast in a different situation, but the badly-written and terribly predictable script don't give him a whole lot to work with.. nevertheless, he has a certain appeal as he scrunches up his lower lip in his continual quest for the unobtainable.
Oliver Platt as Perry's non-gay gay business partner is really the most gifted actor in this film, while Dylan McDermott's one-dimensional rich bad guy is pure cardboard.
The plot device driving this whole thing is just old and tired and in the case of "Three To Tango", simply unfunny.
Will the right guy get the girl before the end titles roll? Do you really have to ask?
The two films make an unintentionally ironic comparison of just how good actors used to be, and just how bad they are these days. I couldn't help but grin as I watched Neve Campbell watching Kim Novak and nearly shouted at the screen "See, Neve?? Now THAT'S Acting!"
How many times have we seen the "Three to Tango" plot in the past ten years? A couple million? A case of mistaken intentions and identities as the girl Perry loves must continue to believe he's gay, and thus "safe" to confide in and even live with, because he must pretend to be gay to keep his lucrative contract with the rich jerk who has assigned him to spy on her.. The same rich jerk who she believes she's in love with. Why? If she's so smart and so streetwise and hip and savvy, can't she see what a fool he's playing her for? Of course not, because, if she could, there'd be no movie, would there..
Neve Campbell is nice to look with her ample figure almost falling out of every low-cut costume she's poured into, but at the same time she crosses the line over into the county known as annoying. She forces her cuteness and sexyness, but she doesn't have to.
Matthew Perry plays the same character he plays in "Friends" with a different cast in a different situation, but the badly-written and terribly predictable script don't give him a whole lot to work with.. nevertheless, he has a certain appeal as he scrunches up his lower lip in his continual quest for the unobtainable.
Oliver Platt as Perry's non-gay gay business partner is really the most gifted actor in this film, while Dylan McDermott's one-dimensional rich bad guy is pure cardboard.
The plot device driving this whole thing is just old and tired and in the case of "Three To Tango", simply unfunny.
Will the right guy get the girl before the end titles roll? Do you really have to ask?