Chocolat

Pros: acting, sweet and sensual plot
Cons: none

In the tradition of films such as Harper Valley PTA, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Mermaids, Chocolat is a film that depicts a slice of life of the women of a narrow-minded small town. In this case, ...

Pros: Excellent cast, original characters, interesting setting, well constructed.
Cons: Predictable.

I have owned the video for Chocolat for quite a while, but it seems like I keep forgetting to watch it.  I dusted it off yesterday for an afternoon viewing.  I needed something sweet to chase the awful drubbing my Detroit Lions suffered ...

Pros: Wonderful cast in an entertaining story.
Cons: Not enough Depp. Really no surprises.

Every so often, a movie with what seems to be a simple plot on the surface turns out to be something wonderful. It is nice to discover these types of movie gems, especially after suffering through some really horrible movies. I had heard and read good ...

Pros: Cast, photography, chocolate
Cons: clichéd writing,lack of pace, lack of surprises

I really wanted to like “Chocolat.” It has four actresses I like a lot--Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Lena Olin, and Leslie Caron--plus two very gifted actors--Johnny Depp and Alfred Molina--plus an intense young girl (Victoire Thivisol as Anouk Rocher)....

Pros: Plot, Setting, Cast, Acting, Direction...
Cons: You'll go on a binge like we did after the movie...

"Chocolat" wasn't at all what I expected. I expected a slow, cheesy, Euro-Chick Flick that was about Chocolate and how it was uh, brown and yummy. What I got was something deeper and far more entertaining than that.

I'll be touching a little...

Pros: Good cast, gentle humor
Cons: Predictable, with one heavy story element

"Chocolat" is the tale of a small French town in the late fifties that's said to enjoy its state of tranquility. The truth is that the town is really anything but tranquil. The town's tensions are brought to the surface when an itinerant mother named...

Pros: Great acting, writing, cinematography and use of humor
Cons: Johnny Depp's character could have been better developed

It is refreshing to see a great movie with very little violence, no four letter words and tasteful love scenes. "Chocolat" is a delicious movie in every sense.

The film is set in a small French village in 1959. The quaint village is more...

Pros: Alfred Molina brings plenty of life to HIS role.
Cons: Lack of directing, lackluster script, inconceivable plot

Lasse Hallstrom's latest is a tepid mix of romance and religion that never gels together in any watchable fashion. Despite a first rate cast, any semblance of good storytelling or cinematic ability is missing almost throughout and you are left with a ...

Pros: A good cast, a good story.
Cons: The acting wasnt powerful enough and whats with that fake accent?

Chocolat is directed by Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules) and is an adaptation from the book of the same name. The main characters in the movie are Juliette Binoche who plays Vianne Rocher, Lena Olin who plays Josephine Muscat, Johnny Depp who...

Pros: Binoche and Molina are excellent. Style. Effort. Imagination.
Cons: Bits and pieces here and there which don't make an entire con.

I’ve said it before, and now I’m going to say it again. Predictability, as a negative trait in a movie, is a trickier creature than most think, and it can be taken too far.

When I reviewed Family Man I mentioned this, because I...

Pros: Very heart soothing and date movie, she will melt in your arms with this one.
Cons: You would be missing a good movie if you don't see this one.

The story that this movie tells, is of a non-religious woman who opens a Chocolate shop. A shop and a woman that the French town doesn't want to accept. It starts out kind of fuzzy. When her father goes to Chile to study herbs and other such vegetation...

Pros: nice scenery, interesting story
Cons: very slow pace

It’s a funny thing about the critically acclaimed, Oscar nominated movies – they never seem to be movies that I like. Certainly I give them a try, and every once in a while I find that one of them is worth watching. However, most of them are just films...

Pros: Beautifully filmed.
Cons: Amoral in an attempt to be cute and funny.

"Last night I had the strangest dream…"
- Bob Dylan

Boy, did I ever have another strange dream last night when I rented the DVD version of CHOCOLAT and watched it. Then I went to sleep and dreamed that I was watching the...

Pros: Wonderfully human characters, great story, lovely scenery, and perfect music.
Cons: None I can see. Maybe the violent scene with Josephine's husband, but that's a stretch.

Directed by Lasse Hallstrõm
Novel by Joanne Harris
Screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs


Profound, mysterious, arcane and magical... this is a delightfully well-spun fable that takes place in a quaint village in France about 1960...

Pros: A Great movie, stay with the slow start..
Cons: Slow to get started

SLOW TO START...............................................

Man was it slow getting started!! I fell asleep the first night and almost didn't finish it. But the next day, I picked up where I had fallen asleep and....boy, I sure was glad I...