Very disappointing...

Really Surprised!

Memorable, crazy movie

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I saw «Singles» the same weekend that I had to watch «Prelude to a Kiss». After seeing Norman René's flat "comedy", the little enthusiasm I had was killed by Cameron Crowe's movie, which promised an updated portrait of the world of single persons. But this film of the 1990s was not very different from those comedies of the 1960s in which Rock Hudson wooed Doris Day, whose friend Edie Adams would end up in the arms of Tony Randall (Hudson's best friend), whose ex-wife Audrey Meadows, after dating several men, met her match in Gig Young, Randall's professional rival. And so it went. But not even the soundtrack, filled with rock numbers, could hid that it was an outdated formula. «Singles» is a series of anecdotes around five protagonists (Matt Dillon, Bridget Fonda, Sheila Kelley, Scott Campbell, Kyra Sedgwick) with no sociological interest (was it a novelty to show that heterosexuals were as promiscuous as those with different sexual orientations?) Neither did it do anything for the anemic state of the 1990s American comedy. Dramatically, the script accumulated adversities that forced the limit of credibility: for example, in less than 15 minutes, Scott participates in an accident in which his girlfriend suffers a miscarriage, his professional project fails, his work cubicle falls apart, he separates from Sedgwick and becomes a hermit. But, of course, in the end Kyra and Campbell were reunited, Bridget and Matt reconciled, and Sheila found the "father of her children". By then, boredom presided over the projection.

as admirer of Campbell Scott, it is difficult to not be fan of this lovely film. who, more than seductive, remains an admirable exercise of honesty , portrait of an age and spiritual/wise analysis of relations between people. in the era of Peter Pan syndrome, this film is a must see. for the characters and for definition of love. for the atmosphere and for the last traces of the spirit of "80 decade. for the humor and for the performances and for the dialogues. for a kind of...spell. because it is a simple, realistic film about friendship and about the perception of the other about you, about the words as not the best tools for define feelings, for the line between teenager and adult life, for the forms of honesty. and, sure, for remember episodes from yours life.

After the success of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything, this movie looks like the next logical step for Cameron Crowe. Exploring the world of dating for 20 somethings in the 90s, this flick works really well by not going down the trodden part of establishing a drama and a solution, but rather letting the narrative flow be determined by the character's lives in a way that doesn't seem forced. With a nice cast of lovable and ratable characters, this makes for a good one time watch, with a nice sprinkling of humour and period pieces. The struggle during making a romcom often is to avoid being cheesy and yet manage to induce a happy feeling in the viewer, which this movie achieves.

I found "Singles" to be a pleasant enough watch, but nothing really special. It deals - albeit in a generally optimistic way - with people getting screwed over by relationships, and makes the point that the reason establishing a connection with someone is so hard is because, in love, everyone plays by their own rules... I feel as if I know this only too well from my personal life, and given the subject matter, I felt like I maybe should've identified a bit more. The focus on unifying threads together is never really strong though, and although the characters are likable, we never stay with them long enough to find if they'll ever straighten their problems out.It also leans rather too heavily on the music culture of the time, and the bleakness of grunge doesn't really mesh well with the larger sentiment that these are young people with their lives in front of them just trying to find their place in the world.The film does have its good points though. Matt Dillon is hilarious, and delivers (I think) one of the funniest comedic performances ever as a clueless band front-man trying to make it on the scene as he's weighed down by finding himself in a committed relationship... It's absolutely worth seeing the movie just for his turn alone, and it gave me a whole new esteem for him.The wider perspective for me though is that, in my opinion, Crowe peaked artistically with first "Jerry Maguire" and then "Almost Famous"; I wasn't at all impressed with "Elisabethtown", and I get the sense that even his earlier work was just a fertile testing ground for his two more polished efforts later...