Chasing Amy Reviews

Kevin Smith Gets A Bit More Serious

This film while having it's undeniable Kevin Smith moments is the most serious film he has made to date, and is none the worse for it. The story of a man chasing a lesbian turns out to be really quite moving with Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams giving impressive performances as the two lovers in question. Jason Lee plays to the more typical Kevin Smith type as the cynical wisecracking Banky but his motivations are also delved into. Overall yet another great movie by Mr Smith, he doesn't seem to be capable of making bad ones!

The total antithesis of the usual rom-com

Chasing Amy is a film which has arguably no more an adventurous plot than 'boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl.' However, in Chasing Amy, Writer and director Kevin Smith uses his special blend of off-beat characters, clever humor, and engaging dialogue to turn a simple romantic comedy into a complex, intelligent, thought provoking, and very original take on love, friendship, and the wages of jealousy. The much underrated Jason Lee is nothing short of superb and Ben Affleck gives a performance he has never since bettered. The total antithesis of the usual dreary run of the mill rom-com, Chasing Amy is a must see movie.

Woeful

This is one of the few films that I couldn't watch to the end. The plot has some merit but the dialogue is so poor and the points of view so infantile that it made me cringe.

The effects of romantic love on friendships and the perceived need in society to "pigeonhole" sexual orientation are fertile ground for the creative arts BUT please do the subject some justice - the lack of subtelty in this film was astonishing.

Well, I watched it all the way through, though in some places I had to grit my teeth to do so. Not my type of film really, but not so bad that someone out there could well think it's fantastic. Try it and see.

Chasing Amy

Insignificant movie - Boring

Only pseudo-intellectuals need apply

This is one of the few films in existence that have actually sent me from being wide awake to fast asleep. I saw about two thirds and would give it 1 star but, given its cult status, one can only assume it had a good ending so i'll pop another one on there. The wafer-thin plot is questionable but regardless of that, i am amazed that there are such kevin smith fanatics out there when so much of his characters' dialogue seems so trite and unnecessary...can't he just write a book and get it out of his system rather than come out with rants-with-a-vague-side-plot like this? Maybe he should get into french cinema.

Worst Film Ever

This is an awfull awfull film. It appears to have been made when the world first discovered lesbians (1997 I don't think so). Utterley rediculous, avoid at all costs!!

Extras Info

Not the best acting from Mr Affleck, but still a great movie.

Just a quick note to point out that this disc is the criterion edition so has all the special features and such that you'd want to see.

- Kevin Smith introduction

- Colour Bars from the cast and crew

- Audio commentary featuring director and cast

- Deleted scenes

- Outtakes

- Featurette

- Theatrical trailer

[Highly rated reviewer]

Waste of time

Dialogues are stupid, characters unreal, plot childish. Boringly unwatchable crap - after five minutes I just skipped through the chapters.

Not for me...

I watched this one on the back of having watched Mall Rats, and thought I'd be in for a treat, but I was wrong.

Jason Lee is highly underused in this film, and as for Ben Affleck, I don't much like him as an actor, and he was in the film way too much!

No where near as funny as Mall Rats, and the storyline was a bit too predictable for me. Sorry to say that this one is not worth a watch