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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Harmless fun, 15. März 2004
Author: topcat-1 von United States

This movie has a chance to be cliched but usually avoids it deftly. It's not perfect nor full of belly laughs but pleasant enough. I haven't seen much of Matthew Perry's work, not being a "Friends" fan, but I was very impressed by his acting here, his expressions and comedic timing. Neve Campbell is adorable, the kind of spunky kooky girl you wish existed in real life - one of her better roles. If you're a fan of Matthew or Neve, you'll love the movie. Supporting cast does fine, direction, photography, music, all in place unobtrusively. A good director is one who you don't know is there. Damon Santostefano emerges from successful tv shows to do a fine job. (Clueless, The District, Honey I Shrunk The Kids).

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The nice humor makes you forget about most flaws., 26. April 2005

Author: Philip Van der Veken von Tessenderlo, Belgium

I've always been a fan of Matthew Perry in the sitcom "Friends". I still think he was absolutely great as Chandler Bing. But so far he could never convince me as an actor on the big silver screen. Somehow it just didn't work out as well as it did in those ten years of "Friends". But this movie is different. I really liked him in this one.

"Three to Tango" is a comedy that sometimes goes a bit too far over the top, but that also offers plenty of fun and laughter which will make you forget about the few annoying moments. I liked the story about the two architects who will act as if they are a gay couple, just to get that important restoration job. When the businessman also asks Oscar to keep an eye on his mistress, believing nothing can go wrong since Oscar is "gay", things start to go really wrong, creating a lot of painful but often funny situations...

I guess the fans of the sitcom "Friends" will love this movie. I know I did and the main reason for that is because Matthew Perry is playing the role he knows best: the likable loser who doesn't do much right. Sure, the movie has it's flaws and no the story isn't world-shockingly original, but it offered me plenty of laughter and that's exactly what I'm looking for in a comedy. That's why I give this movie a 7.5/10.

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Matthew Perry stole the show!, 9. Dezember 1999

Author: helen_carter1 von Brisbane, Australia

I thought this movie was just fantastic! It is the funniest movie I have seen in ages! Matthew Perry has excellent timing (as already seen in Friends) and really was the outstanding actor. Neve Campbell and Dylan McDermott also played excellent supporting roles. In fact the movie was so good I am going to see it again and buy it when it comes out on video. The comedy movie of the year!

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A little diamond, 19. August 2002

Author: SamRag (sam_wan_kenobi@hotmail.com) von Germany

Watching this film the second time, was just as enjoyable as the first time around. The balance between comedy and seriousness is well done, as the stupidity never takes over. Matthew Perry has often irritated me in Friends as he is so over the top, but here he has been kept within better boundaries. Neve Campbell is also in a role that seem to fit her perfectly, playing a sweet, while little wild woman. Dylon McDermott and Oliver Platt are also great in their parts. What made the film work was how believable Matthew Perry is as gay, something he suffers from in Friends as well. So the whole plot works out, with the chemistry between Matthew and Neve working out beautifully. This is well balanced romantic comedy which I recommend. 8/10

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Sweet!, 8. Juli 2002
Author: Charity Grace Campbell (Charitywork@yahoo.com) von Hickville, NC

Neve Campbell doesn't get any sweeter than this. You've seen her as a bitchy Party of Five chic and a Jamie Lee Curtis style victim but this is where she's at her best...quirky, cute, believable and fun. I think this is what Neve is like in real life! She's perfect for adorably eecentric Amy. Matthew Perry (though not looking his best) is charming and fun and at times steals the show!!! Oliver Platt isn't too bad either. The basic story is Perry and Platt are two partners in business, they're competeing with another set of partners. Platt is gay, Perry isn't. The story gets reversed to where the bosss thinks Perry is gay so he asks him to watch out for Amy with whom he's having an affair. End of Story. Did you get that? Within the first five minutes you know whats gonna happen but its a sweet, big hearted little film that makes you want somebody to cuddle up with :) A must see for Neve fans

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Familiar, but fun., 3. November 1999

Author: Banky-4 von Minnesota

It's true. Actors can take a tired movie plot and make it good. And this movie is a lot like that. Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell have chemistry and Oliver Platt was fun as Matthew's friend. I went in expecting the worst, especially since Entertainment Weekly gave it an "F", but I really thought it was good.

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Disgusting, dumb, awful, 16. Juni 2000

Author: David Theis (david_theis@gmx.de) von Bad Kreuznach, Germany

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'I hated, hated, hated this movie.' This classical sentence from Roger Ebert was the only thing I thought during watching this film. It was so bad, I couldn't believe it.

At first I must say something, why I went into this one. I saw the trailer and I like Matthew Perry. Well, the trailer makes it seem that it's a funny movie, but the trailer also tells a different story. After the trailer you think Perry does as if he was gay to get Neve Campbell. Dylan McDermott isn't even seen in the trailer. Well, this could have been a funny idea.

But the real idea isn't funny at all. It is just stupid. You know what I hate in movies: 1.when they think you as a viewer are dumb and 2.when they underline clichés. This movie does both so passionately, it's disgusting.

Consider a scene at the beginning, when we see the two 'bad' architects (McGinley and Balaban) for the first time. Did anyone ever thought or could think that these two are not gay? They talk, look and act so cliché-gay-like, it would have been easier if they just wrote it on their clothes. But then five minutes before the end (uhu, Spoiler Warning, ho, ho), we see them both lying together in bed to show, shock and surprise us, that they are ........ GAY!!!! I couldn't believe it. But the laughter in the audience behind me was even more unbelievable.

The characters aren't ones, their dialogues are gruesome, the acting is, well, nothing special and the story is so dumb. It's, to refer again to Ebert, an classical Idiot-Plot. If anyone would just have said the right thing, everything was solved. But then the movie would be over. Consider one of the final scenes, where Perry and Campbell argue on the street. At the end they say nothing and run away to feel depressed, just to later say things they could have said before, because they were so obvious, everyone else could have said them.

I could go on and on: the exploding taxi, the most unrealistic vomiting scene ever filmed, Perry's mega-cliché friends (the cool and normal, the black and the weirdo) who don't have own lives, the jokes about Perry's father, the terrible 'moving' speech at the end, the not even in the near of being realistic TV-report of the event, the big-size-letter headline of something which was normally not even mentioned in any popular newspaper, the Ponderosa-jokes, the gay-clichès..... EVERYTHING WAS SO DUMB!!!

Nevertheless Perry looks always funny and Campbell always cute. As Roger Ebert said, the last thing is the only thing you can think of watching this film. And of course, that you hate it.

3/10 \ 0.5/4 \ 5- (1+ - 6-)

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Three to What?, 19. Dezember 1999
Author: Steve Baker (s.baker@iig.com.au) von Cairns Australia

It takes Three To Tango. So why the rock and roll, not tango, sequence during the starting credits? These credits are James Bondish; silhouettes, but without tango music; a very entertaining sequence in fact, but they point to the bits and pieces nature of Three To Tango. It's a film in parts.

But some of the parts are downright funny.

Matthew Perry (Friends) plays Oscar an architect who with his gay partner Peter (Oliver Platt , Funny Bones) are after a contract to build some swank building for slime ball rich guy Charles (Dylan McDermott).

Charles is two timing his wife with Amy (Neve Campbell, Scream) and thinking that Oscar is gay like Peter, Charles asks Oscar to baby sit Amy because he's fearful of Amy running off with an old boyfriend of hers.

Of course Oscar and Amy fall in love but Oscar has to pretend he's gay to Amy to keep the contract with Charles, and this keeps the laughs rolling.

For instance Amy gets to confide with Oscar about the sorts of girly things women apparently share with gay men. He also has to deal with the men now attracted to him because they think he's gay.

Hollywood has an uneasy relationship with homosexuality. These days its common to have the comical gay friend or two mincing about in mainstream films (As Good As It Gets, Beverley Hills Cop and many others).

These personalties are added almost strictly for laughs and they are sometimes genuinely amusing but a good dose of homophopia is necessary to really enjoy Three To Tango.

Those not inclined to hate those "batting for the other side" will be a bit under awed by many of the scenes in this film but there's nothing new about that.

Still these sorts of movies may well be seen to be an important step in the true "coming out" of this minority group on the big screen. Judging though by the ill tuned guffaws on air at the screening I attended there's a long way to go as yet.

There are often two or three gags going on at once in any case. This film takes the bird shot approach to comedy. Let off a blast of jokes all at once and one or two might hit their target.

But still the two central characters, Amy and Oscar, do develop some credibility which isn't surprising since they're the only ones who aren't vapid stereotypes.

That might have been not so easy though. I was often still tempted to imagine death mask, hooded, Scream murderers lunging out on the shadows with big knives at Neve Campbell. But she has successfully transcended that sort of typecasting in this film.

Her hair is cut shorter and she's determinably bubbly, very different to the haunted, hunted character she plays in the Scream films.

Mathew Perry like Campbell is very likeable in what is sometimes an awkward comedy romance, with a gay fear subplot.

But overwhelmingly, Three To Tango is often played strictly for fun. Oscar rushes through a market. Instead of knocking over a fruit cart, standard fare for the movies, about six live ducks are thrown at him. Huh! But that was different. And funny.

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Just another Chandler movie, 1. September 2003

Author: bsinc von Ljubljana, Slovenia

Matthew Perry just seems unable (or unwilling) to let go of his Chandler persona. The jokes he does in "Three To Tango (and the rest of his newer movies)are all so similar to his sitcom character it's kind of sad seeing one of the funniest men (and my personal favorite "Friend"-well, at least until he marries Monica) be so uninventive and unexperimental with his definite acting abilities. On the other hand, there's the ALWAYS stunning Neve Campbell who steals the show. Incredibly sexy and stunning, funny, smart and with just the right touch of a rebel she makes her character a person I'd love to spend the rest of my life with. I know I always say the same things, especially if the women are as gorgeous as she is, but it's absolutely true. Who could not fall in love with Amy Post?

There's a believable chemistry between the two and the rest of the cast adds its share as well. Romantic comedies are ALWAYS predictable and rightfully so, but "Three To Tango" fails to logically and believably wrap up the plot in the last five minutes, filling it with coincidences that are just to big for the viewer to swallow. Nice, kind of funny(you probably won't find yourself laughing out loud very often, just smiling in your mind as the movie goes along) and who can forget-romantic. 6/10

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Gay? I'm not gay. I didn't............gay., 25. Juli 2001
Author: Skywalker02

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This is one of the most all time under-rated films I've seen.

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT

This is the story of Oscar Novak (played brilliently by Mathew Perry). Oscar and his business partner Peter ( also played brilliently by the under-rated Oliver Platt) have to sell a do or renovation deal to the financially omnipotent tycoon Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott)

Newman falls under the misguided impression that Oscar is gay. This mis-information is the inside track that land the job that Oscar and Peter so desperatly need, because Newman needs someone to keep tabs on mistress Amy Post (played winningly and adorably by Neve Campbell).

Just when the situation couldn't get any more complicated for Oscar, he just happens to let the most inconvenient thing happen as he falls in love with Amy.

Mathew Perry gives one of his all-time best performances as Oscar Novak. Not only does he take his signiture Chandler Bing persona to the next level, but shows his dramatic and romantic side as well. Neve Campbell is so sweet in this role. She charms the heck out of the audience as well as Perry. The two make one of the most adorable onscreen couples.

The supporting cast does it's part too. Oliver Platt is priceless as Peter Steinberg, as he displays a flawless comedic performence whenever things get critical "Do you know what toilet paper feels like in EGYPT!" Dylan McDermont hits the nail on the head as the rich and powerful tycoon.

This is one of those movies that does get any less entertaining the more you watch it. The perfomances and blend of New York style Jazz music work perfectly. This film also doesn't do anything to frown on homosexuality. It doesn't try to make the sence of being gay freakish or wrong, but more so dwells on the difficulties of dealing with identity misconceptions and paranoia.

This film was 50% genuine comedy, 5% social statement , 45% warm-hearted romance and 100% entertainment.

This is one of my more highly recommended films of not only 1999, but ever. Just sit back, and enjoy. I would advise this as a rental, but it seems more like a keeper to me.

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