Perfect Opposites

2004
5.5| 1h30m| PG-13| en
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The story of two college graduates from the Midwest who move to Los Angeles, where their love is tested for the first time.

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NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Sherazade As much as I love the perpetual eye-candy known as Mr. Martin Henderson, I couldn't stomach this movie at all. Piper 'Julia Roberts wanna-be' Perabo is a very irritating excuse for an actress (I've only liked her in one role from her entire career thus far and I've forgotten the title of that film so don't ask) trust me I gave this one my all but I stopped watching after 15 minutes because I felt like I was wasting my time. I didn't like the fact that Martin's character was doing a voice-over either as that sort of thing is flipping' clichéd. He kept pausing and rewinding scenarios as if watching it once wasn't torture enough. Please save yourselves and watch something better instead of this fluff.
Amy Adler Julia (Piper Perabo) is a fetching college student with a host of admirers and big dreams of a career. Enter Drew. He is a law student and from the minute he sees Julia, he chases her relentlessly. When he finally captures her, Drew convinces Julia to move cross country with him to California. He has good job prospects. However, she has to give up a nice career opportunity in Chicago. Despite the fact that she has only known him two months, Julia agrees to the move. But, will it be love everlasting or will there be complications? This would be a good movie to recommend to anyone who is on the verge of rushing into a relationship. Julia and Drew are genuinely in love, they believe, yet their love is definitely tested, by other relatives, by job choices, by attractive co-workers, etc. The two stars are beautiful people and this fact adds much to the film's enjoyment. Also, the film features the most darling DOG ever put on screen and a charming little apartment setting, complete with flamingo decor. No, the movie is not perfect. Yet, for those who love the tales of romance and are forever searching for a new one, this is a good addition. Because, yes, the film is perfect for a cozy evening in the dead of winter. Cook up the hot chocolate and wrap yourself in this story as well as a suitable afghan.
Jessica Carvalho This movie is the second one I watch with Piper Perabo. The first movie I watched with her was Coyote Ugly ,wich was also in my opinion, the best movie she made,specially compared with ''A Piece of My Heart'', which she is actually ''weak''. I didn't like very much ''A Piece of My Heart'' also because I don't like very much predictable endings, and when Julia says to Drew in the end of the movie that she got divorce I already knew she would end up being with him again. I thought that Julia's character was too good to stay with Drew,a guy who was so much malleable and susceptible to make wrong choices. The good thing about this movie, is to show some of the real problems and discussions that we do have in a serious relationship(specially between men and women) and starts to make our lives complicated.
Roland E. Zwick In "Perfect Opposites," Drew and Julia, two college grads from "a school in the Midwest," decide to head to L.A. to start life together as a committed couple (not much of a move, as it turns out, since the college scenes were actually filmed at USC). However, in no time at all, the pressures of trying to establish their careers, combined with Drew's innate fear of commitment, end up putting a serious strain on the relationship."Perfect Opposites" is a fairly conventional romantic comedy that does at least offer a few flashes of insight into the complexities of man/woman relationships, even though the motivations for some of the characters' actions are strangely arbitrary and inscrutable at times. Nevertheless, as the complications arise, we find ourselves identifying with the two main characters more than we expect to at the beginning of the story. Unfortunately, the film insists on parading a bunch of cutesy L.A. stereotypes before the camera, severely undercutting the sense of reality it establishes in the scenes between Julia and Drew. There is one very funny scene in which Drew's old college roommate lays out his theory about where men and women fit in the evolutionary scheme of things, but the film doesn't achieve that level of comic cleverness very often.As Drew and Julia, Martin Henderson and Piper Perabo make an attractive, likable couple, and the secondary performers do what they can with the characters they've been handed."Perfect Opposites" is a hard film to call because it feels both artificial and realistic in roughly equal measure. It takes a slightly more mature view of the world than most films of its type, building to a final scene that is a tad more thoughtful than what we are accustomed to in a romantic comedy. For that reason alone it deserves some recognition.