Given that Royal Tannenbaums hasn't made it to Indy yet, and probably becauseI am a wuss, I went to see Kate and Leopold yesterday.
And enjoyed it.
Not much logic to this movie. Movieland has accepted that there are portals within the time/space continuim. Liev Schreiber finds one. Ends up bringing handsome Hugh Jackman back to contemporary Manhattan from 1876 Manhattan. Jackman is a down-on-his luck, bored English duke being forced to marry a rich American girl to improve the family finances.
This time portal business is quickly taken care of (movie fiction as opposed to science fiction?), and we find Meg Ryan in her usual fuzzy hair spaciness. She often looks confused and out of sorts in this movie, something we've seen many times before in her career.
She lives with her actor brother, Brackin somebody (I know he's becoming a somebody with a weak NBC sit-com and several recent movie appearances, but I don't remember his name).
The Duke is dashing -- there is a horse chase through Central Park -- as well as a fish out of water -- he is confounded by the inability of a toaster to perfectly toast the bread on only one try. He woos Ryan the old fashioned way, and becomes a perfect antidote to the sliminess of Ryan's boss, played by the guy who plays Josh Limon on West Wing.
All silly, but well told, none-the-less. A very pleasing afternoon. Judging by the audience, this is a gay men and women who watch Rosie O'Donnell kind of movie.
