Great Film overall

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I cried from start to end. I hate how good it presented the point. You could say I hate how good it was. If it was was then I would not have invested my heart and soul in it. How good it was? The night after I saw the movie I had a dream that I WAS LIVING the movie and it was pretty goddamn painful I tell you... It's a love-hate situation but in the end it made me feel like I was Hilary Swank so I guess that means the movie did its job. If you have a SO then you will feel this movie to its core, if not... good for you because you can watch it without tissues.

This movie is one of my all time favorite movies, I could watch it over and over and still laugh and cry just as much as I did the first time I watched it. The basis of this movie is about a young couple that meets by chance while Holly (Hillary Swank) is backpacking Ireland. Holly and Gerry (Gerard Butler) fall in love and get married quickly, starting their lives without a plan. This causes an argument between the two that ends with Gerry performing a "striptease" to apologize. The couple have a fun, romantic relationship that ends way too quickly when Gerry dies and leaves behind a grieving wife. He pre-planned letters and surprises to come periodically to help her get over him and move on with her life. You will laugh and cry with Holly and her girlfriends as they help Holly grieve and move forward. This is a must see movie whether it be alone, with your closest friends or with your significant other.

P.S. I love you really is a very sweet heart warming film. Hilary Swank is perfectly cast as holly, the young widow who is receiving letters from her dead husband Jerry while trying to get over him and find a new life. Gerard Butler is also perfectly cast here as Jerry. Kathy Bates is good in her motherly role, and Harry Connick Jr. is alright, kind of a strange role to be honest, but he did alright. Lisa Kudrow is very funny and gives a witty enjoyable performance as the best friend. The script is cute sometimes, dramatic when it wants to be, and then funny when it's appropriate. The beginning of the movie is well done, showing their raw marriage, both the good and the bad side of it. The little striptease by Gerard butler was funny and well placed. Then going from that to the funeral service at the bar was good, showing the grief and emotion. The movie isn't too slow or too fast in pace, I think it's just right. I really did like how the movie had a good range of emotions, rich in both humor and seriousness. The Ireland trip with the best friends was entertaining, and indecently where something good happens (I won't tell you what). I don't why the majority of critics panned the film, I really enjoyed it, and I came out of it feeling satisfied and that I made the right decision by seeing it.

On paper this should have worked. A Hollywood A-list production with talent to die for. Swank, after an oddball role in a Karate Kid movie (not joking, look it up) sort of exploded onto the Hollywood scene and by and large has delivered nothing but great performances since. Don't think Connick has ever been less than great in a movie. Butler is usually superb as a dramatic or action lead. Supporting cast that includes Bates and Kudrow...? To mess up this film would itself be a feat but LaGravenese did it.Let's be clear. This film falls apart from the first few scenes and then, remarkably, just gets worse. There is no chemistry between Butler and Swank. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. And if you don't buy into the initial chemistry, then the rambling and erratically edited scenes which follow -- about a dead husband who keeps sending mail to his widow -- is not romantic or fun or engaging, it is just plain creepy.