Fools Rush In (1997)

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is a delightful romantic comedy. Blue-blooded Manhattan-based New Englander, Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry), gets feisty Mexican, Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) pregnant during a one-night stand when he is sent to Las Vegas to build a night club. After a mystifying post-coital disappearance, she re-appears three months later to announce her condition. Following their spur of the moment wedding at a Las Vegas chapel with an Elvis impersonator as their witness, there ensues much predictable mayhem and comic intimidation at the hands of Isabel's father, brothers and ex-fiancé. Fire is added to the flames when Whitman's straight-laced parents, who know nothing of the marriage, turn up unannounced. Isabel's volatile temperament and disagreements over whether to live in Las Vegas or New York add to the mix.The chemistry between Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry is delightful and sweet. The basic them of two people making a big mistake during a drunken night out, falling in love, dealing with multi-cultural issues coming from two different worlds, has been done before, but this was done with such a truly fresh and cute twist on it. Matthew Perry is at his usual hilarious and very witty best, and Salma Hayek is utterly adorable, feisty, sexy, cute and sweet. As you see the two of them stepping up to the responsibilities of what they have done, and trying to accept their whirlwind romance, there are some of the classic things you would expect as Matthew Perry's well to do, rich parents from the Northeast suddenly realize their sun lives with a woman in Las Vegas that has turned their home into a little Mexico. The actors involved do credit to the movie. What else is there to say! Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

I can't recall movies falling in this genre making huge, big bucks, I can't recall movies falling in this genre being 100% realistic.But, this movie is something maybe people who are in inter cultural marriages can relate to or maybe not. This movie is based on a true story, it's about a one night stand, a pregnancy and how it takes toll on the lives of two people who barely know each other yet share the most complex bond there is.Salma Hayek is awesome and very pretty in this movie, and yes she looks like a natural, casual effortless beauty. I expect when this movie was released Matthew Perry was at the epitome of his career and the zenith of his looks!It's a good watch people. I mean you won't waste your time watching this sometimes things may get predictable but I suggest you go with it...

each time that I watch it. There's some charm about it that draws me in. I love the chemistry between the actors. I like the music and the scenes are heartfelt, but also make you laugh at times. I think the definition of a good movie is when it evokes an emotion from you then transform that emotion in a split second. I will be crying from happiness then a joke will pop up or something and in the next second I'm laughing.So I recommend anyone to rent this movie if they are looking for a perfect romantic comedy. I guess this movie is like my romantic guilty pleasure. I watch it all the time and always will.

Boy {Matthew Perry} meets Girl {Salma Hayek} in a queue for the toilet in a club. Cue both people from different ethnicities ending up in bed together doing something that neither of them have done before. Cue three months later and Girl tuns up in Boys life announcing she's pregnant. Cue emotions pulled apart, a hasty marriage, family strife and many stumbling blocks getting in the way of potential true love.Sound familiar? Not surprisingly this retread of a formula that is as old as the hills has very little originality. The script is desperately dull, the ending is exactly what the world expects and the leads have zero chemistry. That only Perry and Hayek are "names" in the film speaks volumes one feels. You get the sense that what budget there was went on getting the sexy Hayek and Perry {riding on the crest of his Friends wave} to appear. Little flashes of comedy do from time to time surface, and, yes, those who like a cheery cup of the love froth with their rom-coms will feel fuzzy come the end. But really it's a poorly constructed and executed picture, the type that unfortunately seems to come out on a yearly basis. You have been warned, stick with a Cary Grant movie instead. 3/10