French Kiss (1995)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Kate	Meg Ryan	½
Luc	Kevin Kline	½
Charlie	Timothy Hutton	½
Jean-Paul	Jean Reno
Juliette	Susan Anbeh

Review

This ostensibly romantic comedy is more clunky than romantic, even though Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan deliver some laughs. Kline is rather impressive as a happy-go-lucky Frenchman who keeps bumping into Ryan, who, for her part, travels to France to win back her husband from his young French flame. The story is a hotchpotch of childlike characters who drift to and from each other like magnets. To the extent that it works, it's thanks to Kline and a couple of fun set pieces. The once so skilful Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, Silverado) is on a bad streak, having delivered the vapid The Bodyguard and the unengaging Wyatt Earp over the past few years. And he continues his downward spiral with this limp film, which he simply cannot blow enough life into.