Review of You've Got Mail

6/10
A little more tweaking could improve this modern love story.
8 May 1999
You've got to love or hate this one. Which is which? There's not explaining much about this catchy title known as YOU'VE GOT MAIL. It is a righteous two-hour romantic comedy that plays almost similar to a mellow sitcom. Like Nora Ephron's SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, it tries to mimic something from a golden age classic on a black and white print. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan still have their proper roots to make this worth sitting on a loveseat with Kleenexes., even if two of their worlds don't exactly collide. It's the Internet jargon that sputters, letting this emotional (???) experience go wishy-washy right where it is (at this current moment) senseless to produce a cyber-love romance. For a movie that does brilliant with storytelling, the Internet idea is mighty cute (and rare!). A good contemporary romance, nonetheless, but there's more room left over for tweaking out this totally new concept.
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