Sort by
Product Rating |
Sort by
Review Date |
| Product Rating: |  |
| |  |
|
|
|
by kristinafh  - Top 50, Oct 19 '01
Pros: The First 20 Minutes Met My Expectations
Cons: The Last Two Hours Did Not.
Preamble
I've been anxiously awaiting the opening of this movie for months. I have to tell you that unlike a bazillion of other people, I didn't fall in love with Ms. Barrymore until her performance in The Wedding Singer. That's...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by pmills1210  in Movies, - Top 500, Nov 21 '01
Pros: Strong start, finish, supporting performances
Cons: A very dead middle
“Riding In Cars With Boys” is the story of a girl who wanted to grow up fast, and got her wish in the worst sort of way. Drew Barrymore (“Never Been Kissed”) stars as Beverly Donofrio, who becomes a mother at age 15, and gets lost in a life she never...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: |  |
| | |
|
|
|
by SusanGranger - Top 1000, Oct 16 '01
Pros: Excellent performances, deft direction
Cons: Fragmented script punctuated with lots of self-indulgent emotional ranting, raving and tears
"I screwed up," admits Drew Barrymore as Beverly Donofrio, a rebellious, wayward teen who desperately wants to go to college and become a famous writer but refuses to heed her policeman dad's advice to "Keep your mind on books, not boys."
...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: |  |
| | |
|
|
|
by bwyckoff1 - Top 500, Oct 28 '01
Pros: Excellent reality based film!
Cons: none
Riding in Cars with Boys is a wonderful new film. It has its ups and downs and yet I found the story entertaining and a movie with a message. I find moviegoers are divided into two camps- the strictly movies are for entertainment group and the group...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by shannons , Oct 18 '01
Pros: 3 hanky tearjerker with moments of fun
Cons: uneven exposition and overlong, pat ending
Riding in Cars with Boys could be subtitled: “Life is what happens when you make other plans”, or even, “You Always Hurt the Ones You Love”. There are laugh-out-loud comic moments in the film, but this is not the lighthearted comedy that much of...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by Rock_On - Top 200, Apr 14 '02
Pros: teaches a good lesson
Cons: pacing
Well since I already told the Hollywood Video, $.99 deal...and all the movies I rented because of that deal, I’ll just say that one of those movies was Riding In Cars With Boys. Now the same story goes for this movie as it was with...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by remnjava - Top 500, Apr 07 '02
Pros: Good acting, how the other half lives
Cons: One or two scenes hard to believe
Did you ever consider what impact one night or for that matter, one day can have on your life?
I met my first husband one day, the last day I worked as a waitress at a truck stop. He was the friend of my boss. I should...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by mrbrown , Oct 19 '01
Pros: Decent performances (mostly).
Cons: A one-note lead character; lacks a key payoff.
Over the span of 20 years, a young woman is presented with a number of life obstacles and not only perseveres, but triumphs. If this sounds like the makings of one of those late-in-the-year, gimme-an-Oscar-or-at-the-very-least-a-nomination vehicles...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: |  |
| | |
|
|
|
by Trouto , Nov 29 '01
Pros: Great plot, casting and screenplay.
Cons: Hits a tender nerve.
This movie was scary. Scary in the fact that it was like the movie was written about my mother, and I was the child. All except the druggy father bit.
Riding in Cars With Boys is not the type of movie I usually go and see. Me and a...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by Debbie26 - Top 1000, Nov 18 '01
Pros: Real life look at the life of a teenager who becomes pregnant
Cons: nothing
There was so much talk about Riding In Cars With Boys when it was released and I knew that this was something I wanted to see with my mother. I am not really a Drew Barrymore fan, in fact I can count on one hand the number of movies that she has...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by snakeayez , Dec 20 '01
Pros: Performances of Barrymore, Zahn and Murphy, strong realistic story
Cons: Very little
First impressions would probably classify this movie as a “chick flick”, since it appears to fall into that group of movies that celebrate femininity, strength and independence, while possibly making the simple statement that men are bad, and women are...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by wandajune6 , Oct 24 '01
Pros: excellent performances
Cons: dislikable character, over-emotional, shallow
Before I go into my opinions of this film, I think it is important to explain why I was so adamantly against seeing it. For the past two months, I have been receiving a number of emails from Drew@DrewBarrymore.com. I never subscribed to her mailing...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by SkylarDelaney , Nov 08 '01
Pros: superb acting, made me laugh AND cry, directed by penny marshall...
Cons: the transitions between the past and present sometimes seemed "off"
I hate misleading previews, don't you? Remember the previews for Kindergarten Cop? It wasn't actually the cute, funny movie it was advertised as; it was dramatic and suspenseful much of the time. The previews for "Riding in Cars With Boys," too, made...
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by thornhill , Oct 22 '01
Pros: Barrymore is a winning personality, the supporting cast is generally good.
Cons: Marshall's direction is uninspired.
Beverly D'Onofrio (Drew Barrymore), a pretty woman of 35, waits on a street corner in NYC for a young man (Adam Garcia) driving a car. They set off on their journey, Beverly very excited about the publication of her new book, "Riding In Cars With Boys"....
Read the full review
|
| Product Rating: | |
| | |
|
|
|
by kcornell , Oct 27 '01
Pros: Drew Barrymore's basic sweetness shines through
Cons: Poor screenplay, underutilizing James Woods
Looking for a great movie on a Saturday afternoon? Well, movie fans, I need to tell you that Riding in Cars with Boys isn't it!
As my former teachers used to say, this flick doesn't live up to its great potential. And what great potential it was;...
Read the full review
|
|
|
- Add to My Yahoo!: 
- Add to Google Homepage: 
© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc.