A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

It's not perfect, but it's a gem of a movie. I was surprised and touched by this movie. I don't usually like "feel-good" movies, but will recommend this one to everyone.Love evolves between these two morbid people. HE is safe from a romantic involvement with her (49 vs. 17), so he permits himself to welcome this lonely and lost girl into his lonely life and compassionately offers her one chance after another.Both actors are perfect in their roles - LeeLee is quite the original! And Brooks is great without being pathetic. Definitely a chemistry.Very entertaining writing/dialogue. Some take-away lines.So Lahti's a director? Has even one a director Oscar? Where have I been living? I'll check her out!

What a great surprise this movie was. I sat down to watch it with no expectations. I was almost instantly hooked and when Brooks made his entrance I could not switch off. Beautifully written and played, Lahti directs with a sure touch and sensitivity not often found in modern movies. The relationship between the two leads is outstandingly portrayed and totally believable due to the way the whole thing is handled. My only criticism is the title of the movie. Together with the synopsis it seems the movie is going to be sleazy and not a little tacky. Maybe it could have been called "J & R" or almost anything else other than "My First Mister". I have not seen too many Albert Brooks movies but I will certainly search some more out. I loved him in this. A very underrated actor and an extremely underrated movie. Why has it been overlooked by the academy and critics and general public?

I loved 'Ghost World', a satire of suburban life a centred on a sexually assertive but socially alienated teenage girl who engages with a middle aged man. Christine Lahti's 'My First Mister' occupies similar territory, but is by contrast disappointing, with clumsy and unsubtle characterisation and comedy, paired with a heavy-handed score and soundtrack. It did make me laugh a few times, but the ending is obvious, drawn out and, and saccharine-sweet, as the film loses its previous spikiness in favour of a meaningless, conformist message, a quick weep and a feel-good glow. Furthermore, once she abandons the Goth look, the actress playing the teenage lead looks far too old for the part. Overall, this is a film much less challenging than at first it may seem.

I don't know how this movie got billed as a comedy. I didn't laugh even once; it felt like one of the longest movies I've sat through and I couldn't have cared less about the characters. I really like Leelee Sobieski, but this is a stinking pile of slow n' boring. I actually know people like her character, "nonconformist" goths that cut themselves etc, and if this was a parody then it was a dumb one, because it wasn't funny. Not to mean that I wouldn't laugh at teenage angst, only that I didn't, so I think it have been portrayed wrong. On a positive note, I'm glad they only hinted at sexual undertones between the two characters, since (even though the hinting was gross) it could have been a lot worse.