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.
Caitlin
This film is a really nice ensemble piece, all the cast are good and put in a range of very appealing performances.Personally I have a bit of a 'thing' for David Morrissey and it was nice for a change to see him here with his native Liverpudlian accent being charming, sexy and very very funny.Ian Hart who gets top billing is really a fairly minor character, yet also puts in an excellent, and unusual performance as the misogynistic taxi driver who dishes out advice to anyone who cares to listen in the cafe.The plot is certainly nothing new, and there are no real surprises along the way, but it succeeds well in it's aim of being a warm and appealing feel good movie.
graeme.mathieson
I really liked this film, the soundtrack was excellent and the story was pretty good too. Salsaholics will love it! but normal people should like it too.
Robin Kelly
There is ostensibly no reason why Born Romantic shouldn't work on the big screen but it seems very much like a small screen film.The movie follows three different couples and is centred on a Salsa night at a club. The link is a taxi driver who is devoted to his wife.The movie is nicely and neatly structured with everything being resolved at the end with only the taxi-driver's arc being a bit weak and unconvincing. The dialogue is good and occasionally very witty.Although this film is well made in every aspect, the three couple's stories are simply not original or interesting enough.