Stylish but barely mediocre overall

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

that virtue does it more than interesting. or different. it is special for the courage to use the honesty to say an ordinary story using clichés, good actors, a humor who is more than tool of comedy, a wise science to do the characters as every day neighbors. a series about family, love, friendship, expectations, crisis and solutions. gray at the first view, it is romantic, courageous, seductive. and honest at all. and each of that details is important to discover something comfortable, new and nice. and unexpected - smart. because it is a show about small basic things and convincing details. and arena for a couple who remains in memory long, long time.

Okay, I watched this show because it was funny but it was never a show that I enjoyed watching repeatedly. I love sitcoms but this one was annoying at times. I felt Helen Hunt was worthy of her multi-Emmys because she really made me like her character. Paul Reiser's character was just neurotic and annoying. Their chemistry worked but the show had a great cast like Cynthia Harris, Carroll O'Connor, Carol Burnett, etc. The show was set in New York City in a large apartment which costs a small fortune if you have the money. Paul and Helen showed us how married couples have their fights but truly love each other. Maybe the show works best if the audiences are married and need to laugh at somebody's else's misery. Anyway the show stayed on for seven seasons despite Helen's Oscar Win in 1998. The casting was great but the writing lacked. It was like Seinfeld got married to Elaine and they were living together. They were just annoying at times.

I absolutely love this show. It just hits the spot, It's funny and then is a loving quality, showing struggles, victories, and just appeals. Plus I have always loved Helen Hunt, so it's a added bonus that she's a main character. Which is the original reason I started watching the show, but then when I watched it I loved it, and so kept watching. I absolutely love the camaradie that Paul and Jamey have together, it touches the funny yet the loving parts of relationships. The kind that most people love to have. It's just a awesome show and I look forward to watching it every time it comes on. And I also love the show's theme song "Mad About You by Belinda Carlisle".

I suddenly really started to miss this show when I realized that, for me, there is currently about 99% trash on television, and probably only about three television shows a week that I look forward to watching anymore (which is on one hand, depressing, but on the other hand, a good thing in that I look for other ways to spend my time). "Mad About You" was one show that you could (almost) always count on to be entertaining, and represents a sitcom now lost in the wave of trashy television (burdened most abundantly with garbage talk shows and "Reality" TV).A great directorial and production team developed a pretty good show that lasted seven years. The premise was simple--that of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt), a couple who lived in New York. The Buchman's made a really great sitcom couple, and one that was able to really transcend the television conventions even as the years went on. Paul was not the doofus or arrogant husband, and Jamie was not his demeaning wife. Their friends were not catty and their parents (save some things that Paul's mother often did towards Jamie) were not berating to their children or hateful towards each other (as clearly, Ray's parents are in 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' for example). They were a simple couple that, save a few exceptions, most younger (like 30s and 40s) married couples could either identify with, or at least enjoy the charisma and likability of these two main characters from the time the show began to the very last episode. While each episode focused on some kind of daily event, whether it be visiting with the parents, or something going on at work, it also took you through some of the rise and falls in the Buchman's marriage (during sweeps week, no doubt, but still...) such as the time that Jamie and Paul first met, the time that they almost divorced, and the token sitcom season where Jamie gives birth to their daughter, Mabel (who conveniently disappears in later episodes after the baby craze died off). But, more often than not, despite these pitfalls, the Buchmans often had some hilarious adventures (and misadventures) in so much as most things that they did could be called "Adventures." The supporting cast, too, was just as great with my particular favorites being John Pankow (Paul's cousin, Ira), Hank Azaria (Nat, the dog walker), Anne Ramsay (Jamie's sister, Lisa), Cyndi Lauper (who was a regular guest star in the last season as Marianne), and Louis Zorich (Paul's dad, Burt).And, even with all of the little lessons about life and marriage and so forth that came into full understanding among the characters by the end of each episode, it was not done too dramatically, not too cloyingly, and certainly not in a pathetically sentimental manner. The writers, directors, and performers were able to make just the perfect balance of all elements. And I think that was why it survived as long as it did. Viewers, male or female, could like the Buchmans.In the meantime, catch the old shows on DVD or reruns if you can, for a brief reminder of how good television shows USED to be.