TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

june-86154 With Box Office statistic: Opening Weekend: £130,193 (UK) (13 May 2005)Gross: $223,144 (USA) (17 February 2006) It's not a box office movie. Talk about story: the story goes very slow. Dialogue and story is not a strong structure. Seems like the script is way far to perfect. And with a lot of big name actor and actress appeared in the movie, they can do much better than that. Beside the beautiful costume which is can find in many movie so far after this movie, I prefer a lot of other mover would be better with the better script, structure, tell story and better make. It's really disappointed see the way this movie come out, it appeared with Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson with a beautiful handbill and vintage costume but very disappoint in the movie as a whole.

gavin6942 While retaining her secret identity, the illustrious Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt) saves Lady Windemere (Johansson) from making a grand social faux-pas with the scoundrelly Lord Darlington (Moore).My expectations were a bit low on this because I am still warming up to Helen Hunt. All those years of "Mad About You" never convinced me, but I am starting to have second thoughts. This film is a notch above her usual stuff.Although I am not familiar with the Oscar Wilde play, I am quite pleased with this adaptation. It is moving, with decent twists and turns. There are also more than a handful of quotable lines, which I presume are Wilde's creations. They come across as timeless.

katiebee09 I was incredibly disappointed in both the storyline and performances in this film. I have enjoyed both Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson in other films, and so expected good things. I couldn't get into any of the characters, save one! Tom Wilkinson, as "Tuppy" offered the only believable acting. I kept waiting to be swept up in this 1930s period piece, and throughout the entire movie I continued to wait. I couldn't connect with the characters, the dialogue was poor and poorly delivered, and the story itself was flaky and fragile, and seemed to be falling apart at the seams the entire way through.I wouldn't waste an hour and a half on this film. I almost turned it off a few times, but wanted to see if it would actually go somewhere. It left me saying, "Meh."

Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) The name originally accorded by Oscar to this famous and most well-loved play, Lady Windermere's Fan, was the title used in this movie. This was about the only honour accorded Oscar in this woefully disappointing film.I had missed that Helen Hunt was in it, being caught up in the other good cast members I read on the sleeve - Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Diana Hardcastle. I would have given it a pass with HH in it. Once again she confirmed what an appalling one-note actress she is. She sadly came across as a two-bit whore in this and not the seductress called for in the original. Her accent was flat and uninteresting, never for a minute did you get the impression she could catch a fly - not to mention any stray man - in her web.The second piece of miscasting was in Scarlett Johansson, all trout lips and artificial shyness (get those legs waggling at the edge of the bed in anticipation of a birthday gift). The original play is a drawing room comedy, all gossip, intrigue, wit and hearsay. Here it is expanded to the Amalfi coast of Italy in the time of Mussolini in the thirties and not England in the late 1900s where it should have stayed. (Did anybody in the movie research the Italy of that era and why would the British and American be supporting a fascist regime?) Americans stand in for just about everyone so it also loses the cranky tweeness that English thoroughbreds were trained in.Here the lines (and all of Wilde's work is freely pillaged for this) sound awkward and artificial in most of the mouths, with the exception of the aforementioned Tom, Stephen and Diana who positively shine and raised this viewer's rating from a 3 to a 6. Between them they made it all worth the watch.Lovely frocks, some good outdoor shots, though they could have lost the important car of Windermere waiting in solitary splendour outside of the rooms of the town's wanton woman of the night. Oh those two by fours. Ouch and ouch again. We get it already. The gossipers had it!!