Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

FlashCallahan Centered around a salsa club, three men pursue three women across London. Fergus is trying to find his ex-girlfriend.Charmer Frankie, is trying his hardest to pull the beautiful Eleanor.Robber Eddie is trying to find, and also pull, one of his victims, cemetery worker Jocelyn...In the late nineties and early noughties, there were a slew of these British romantic comedies, that were trying to be a sort of antidote to the sickly sweet behemoths that were Richard Curtis movies.We Had This Years Love, If Only, House, Virtual Sexuality, and this. And while some of them were funny and quite the alternative (think Lock Tock for the ladies) they disappeared without a trace, because they were too familiar and felt a little bit too depressing at times.This film, whilst it has a few genius moments, features too many people with miserable faces to be anything like a cheerful movie. We have Adrian Lester as a sort of guardian, watching their lives as they sit in the back of his cab, being drunk and depressed.And apart from McCormack, none of the characters are very likable. They are either thieves, drunkards, loose women, or stuck up.So at the end, you really couldn't care less, because they don't really deserve to be happy.But there are funny moments, and despite the unlikable characters, the performances are brilliant.Just do it less gloomy next time....

missrljane An ensemble rom-com that requires a love of salsa. If this love is lacking in the audience, they will often be bored. The opening is set in the salsa club that connects the characters, is long and dull and drenched in a cheap-looking murky red, which isn't going to snag the interest of a passing viewer. This is reprised throughout the film along with drawn out shots of London roads, adding to the lethargic and depressing tone.However, Born Romantic does have an interesting set up, once it gets around to it, and each of the three male leads have intriguing back stories. Fergus has come to London to find the love he jilted eight years ago. Frankie lives in a sinking house with his ex-wife. Eddie is a petty thief looking after his senile father. Unfortunately their female equivalents are less developed. Mo is a slag (broken heart), Eleanor a snob (high standards) and Jocelyn a kook (fear of death). It feels very much that each couple ends up together only because there isn't space in the film for them to think about meeting anyone else and the ending is unsatisfactory because from all signs the relationships between Fergus and Mo, and Frankie and Eleanor are doomed, with them only getting together because they are tired of fighting. The sweeter relationship between Eddie and Jocelyn may last, but these two characters have the least depth in reality so it is hard to consider them real people at all.Fergus, Frankie and Eddie pursue their ladies, their stories connected by a salsa club and a widower taxi driver, but while individual scenes can be enlightening and well crafted, they are never enough. The whole film suffers from its disjointed nature and it ultimately has too many characters and plots to give any the depth they deserve. While this is the risk of all ensemble films, Born Romantic doesn't have anything else to it to fall back on.

tovangar Sweet fluffy story about four mismatched but made for each other couples in London: A goofy Scotsman (the always entertaining Craig Fergusson) and a chilly art conservator; a melancholy habitué of a cemetery and a well-meaning thief; a bitter jilted woman and the remorseful man who left her at the altar eight years before; a cabbie (the omg gorgeous and super-talented Adrian Lester - you remember him, he was Henry in Primary Colors) who helps the other couples sort it out and finally finds his way clear to put his grief for his dead wife aside so he can embrace life (in the form of a very alive salsa teacher) once again.This is all played out in the aforementioned cemetery, inside Lester's cab, the winterly streets and parks of London, a salsa club, Kings Cross Station, various crappy flats and the Elgin Marbles Hall at the British Museum.If you're home with a cold and this comes on the telly watch it.

Traxy Thornfield (TheSqueee) When I saw "British romantic comedy" in the newspaper, I thought "YAY!" since it's one of my favourite genres. Unfortunately, Richard Curtis was not involved in writing the script to this one. If he had been, it would have been a lot better.The movie is about three severely messed up couples, but the movie isn't all that funny (even though it's got some funny parts - for instance, the senile father was a bit of a giggle) and it's not all that romantic either. My mother complained about the attitude of the women, while I defended them saying "Well, if I was to put up with any of that lot, I'd have an attitude too!"The characters aren't particularly interesting or even believable, and the Salsa club only seems to be in the movie for no real reason other than to be a cool place to hang out at. It just doesn't add up. The only people that seem truly real in it are two of the cab drivers! The main cabdriver, who acts like some sort of guru (and what a wise man he is!), and the one that John Thomson plays. The rest? No. No way. None whatsoever. If you want a British romantic comedy, I suggest you see one that is actually funny, or romantic... or at least written by Richard Curtis!