"Friends" rush in where even fools would fear to tread.

| Mar 22, 2024

There are emotional and character truths lurking about in Katherine Reback’s screenplay, but they are rendered more frivolous and caricatured than they needed to be.

| Oct 18, 2008

Perry makes an awkward and unattractive leading man. But Hayek is all warmth and humor. When the film isn't making her look foolish, it's possible to see a hint of better things to come.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

“Fools Rush In,” which dares to take the time needed to set up its story properly, accrues substance and edge with the interplay of the cultures represented by Alex’s WASP background and Isabel’s proud Mexican American heritage.

| Feb 14, 2001

The cross-cultural premise promises a piquancy it never delivers. The conflicts and compromises that would accompany such a partnership somehow never convince.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Take away the ethnic/pregnancy angles, and we've seen this premise countless times -- all the way back to the spate of post-World War II romances about returning veterans and the mates they married in a blink.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

This isn’t real life. It isn’t even a movie. It’s an extended sitcom. And for the first time in your life, you’ll actually beg for commercials.

| Jan 1, 2000

Fools Rush In' is a sweet, entertaining retread of an ancient formula, in which opposites attract despite all the forces arrayed to push them apart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The film never gets past the unlikelihood that its characters have much chance of living happily ever after. Or of finding real heat or humor along the way.

| Jan 1, 2000

A stilted culture clash (she loves her colorful family in Vegas, he loves hot dogs in Manhattan; big problem) — and the opportunity for Perry to act monochromatically conflicted until it’s time for the movie to end...

| Original Score: C- | Feb 14, 1997