This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I was wondering to myself whether a film with one of the male stars of Friends as the lead would be just a naff as anything with Jennifer Aniston, so I spotted this recognisably titled one, from director Andy Tennant (Anna and the King, Hitch). Basically New York construction supervisor Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) and Mexican photographer Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) have a chance meeting while in a Las Vegas Mexican restaurant queue for the toilet. They find themselves in bed together, and they part ways without seeing or hearing from each other for three months, until Isabel comes to find Alex. She tells him that she is pregnant, even though it was a one night stand and he used a condom, which was ineffective, but she is and she wants to keep the baby. Isabel thinks it is a good idea for Alex to meet the family before she tells them the truth, so she invites Alex to a big family get together dinner, where father Tomas (Tomas Milian) is a little bit sniffy about her "boyfriend". Together they decide that it is a good idea to stay together, so in a Vegas chapel, with an Elvis Presley impersonator they get married, and they do actually get on as a growing couple. Of course the whole relationship has its problems relating to living locations and clashing of cultures, so there is the point when they argue and part ways again. But don't worry, Alex and Isabel find each other again on a rainy night on the road, and that is where their baby girl is born, and in the end they have a real wedding on a canyon, with the Elvis song "Can't Help Falling In Love" playing, which features the lyric "only fools rush in". Also starring Jon Tenney as Jeff, Carlos Gómez as Chuy, Men in Black's Siobhan Fallon as Lanie, John Bennett Perry (Matthew's real father) as Richard Whitman and Stanley DeSantis as Judd Marshall. Perry is actually quite appealing, less sarcastic than Chandler, and Hayek is sexy and fun, it may be predictable quite a lot of the time and questionable in logic, but not a bad romantic comedy. Worth watching!

I caught this on television with my girlfriend, having no expectations coming in. In almost every aspect, this is a competent and well-made movie. However, nobody involved seems to have had much of an interest in making anything beyond a competent and well-made movie. It's essentially a paint-by-numbers entry into the "romantic comedy" genre that doesn't have enough blood in the comedy or in the romance to be very memorable or involving beyond casual TV viewing.Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek are the leads. I can understand why they were cast (Perry for his sitcom fame, Hayek for her good looks), but neither one really impresses me as a very good actor -- Perry mainly stand around looking helpless and conflicted and moves his arms in random directions when he speaks, and Hayek comes up with some line readings that make me wonder whether she bothered to read the script.The plot, which is a not-too-imaginative variation on a ubiquitous one that plays pretty heavily on stereotypes of Mexicans and rich people from Connecticut (a rich man from Connecticut gets a Mexican woman pregnant, then decides to marry her for love, but runs into complications with their respective goals, families, and customs), is time-tested, solid, and has a lot of opportunity for good drama, but that opportunity is mainly squandered -- we don't really get to follow HOW the two protagonists get over their differences and earn their happy ending.This movie seems to serve up its romance with a generous side of it's-good-to-believe-in-signs, which as a non-superstitious viewer I did not really buy, but it's easily ignored for the character device it is.That said, there are some amusing moments, and there are some sweet moments -- just fitting the requirements for the genre the film is a product of. It's a perfectly adequate date movie or television time-killer if you're in the mood for it (most movie viewers will be able to read a short description and know just what to expect), but don't go in looking for anything special.

Yet another story inserted in the conventional romance film invaded by comedy and with a comedian in the main role.There's nothing relevant here, if you like Matthew Perry as a TV actor he won't disappoint you here, i suppose. He made a good part of his career in television and that shows (on the negative side) on his films. See 'the whole nine yards' and compare his comedy timings with those of Bruce Willis or compare his cinema performances with those of other actors more rooted in cinema like Brendan Fraser. He doesn't pull things off like they do. But here he is, TV fans of him will probably appreciate something of what he does here.The common cliché of portraying Latin American cultures in Hollywood films (most of all the mexicans, for proximity) is something that look odd today. These last 11 years brought to a mass distribution many films from some Latin American cinema industries, and the lives depicted in those films proved films like this one ridiculous. There's more than coloured walls, Christian beliefs and certain paternal macho attitudes in Mexican culture, as in any culture. Probably in 11 years we'll see similar odd things in films being made right now.My opinion: 1/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com

"Fools Rush In" is not funny, not romantic, not cute, it has a slight heart, but that's about it. Not one joke in the film worked, and even if it was a mediocre one (which is the best they had), it still was terrible because of Matthew Perry's awful timing and the overall bad acting.Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a semi-successful business man, and Isabel (Salma Hayek) is fresh out of Mexico in Las Vegas trying to make a name for herself as an artist. These two have a one night stand, and *surprise, surprise* Isabel becomes pregnant. The plot, which consists of dozens of bad jokes and clichés, has Alex and Isabel becoming a couple and how their different cultures collide. This was a comedy, but I did not laugh once. The only person to have joke lines was Matthew Perry, and he was not funny in the least. Any time the movie was trying to be romantic, it become extremely corny. The climax of the movie ended in the rain (despite that it didn't show any signs of rain the rest of the film). One bad cliché after another corny joke, with bad acting thrown in cannot make a good movie.My rating: * out of ****. 113 mins. PG-13 for language and sexuality.