Jackson Booth-Millard I was wondering to myself whether a film with one of the male stars of Friends as the lead would be just a naff as anything with Jennifer Aniston, so I spotted this recognisably titled one, from director Andy Tennant (Anna and the King, Hitch). Basically New York construction supervisor Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) and Mexican photographer Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) have a chance meeting while in a Las Vegas Mexican restaurant queue for the toilet. They find themselves in bed together, and they part ways without seeing or hearing from each other for three months, until Isabel comes to find Alex. She tells him that she is pregnant, even though it was a one night stand and he used a condom, which was ineffective, but she is and she wants to keep the baby. Isabel thinks it is a good idea for Alex to meet the family before she tells them the truth, so she invites Alex to a big family get together dinner, where father Tomas (Tomas Milian) is a little bit sniffy about her "boyfriend". Together they decide that it is a good idea to stay together, so in a Vegas chapel, with an Elvis Presley impersonator they get married, and they do actually get on as a growing couple. Of course the whole relationship has its problems relating to living locations and clashing of cultures, so there is the point when they argue and part ways again. But don't worry, Alex and Isabel find each other again on a rainy night on the road, and that is where their baby girl is born, and in the end they have a real wedding on a canyon, with the Elvis song "Can't Help Falling In Love" playing, which features the lyric "only fools rush in". Also starring Jon Tenney as Jeff, Carlos Gómez as Chuy, Men in Black's Siobhan Fallon as Lanie, John Bennett Perry (Matthew's real father) as Richard Whitman and Stanley DeSantis as Judd Marshall. Perry is actually quite appealing, less sarcastic than Chandler, and Hayek is sexy and fun, it may be predictable quite a lot of the time and questionable in logic, but not a bad romantic comedy. Worth watching!

Michael O'Keefe Looking for a light romantic comedy that is so predictable, but still charming? FOOLS RUSH IN directed by Andy Terrent fills the bill. Well photographed with vibrant Las Vegas scenery and oh yes...Salma Hayek, its pretty damn hard to take your eyes off of her. Alex Whitman(Matthew Perry)is a New York architect that reluctantly ramrods the building of a new casino-hotel in Vegas. With love being the last thing on his mind, he casually meets a beautiful photographer Isabel(Hayek)and after meeting her extensive Hispanic family and surviving the culture shock...Vegas wedding bells chime.My favorite scenes take place at Hoover Dam, especially the one in the rain. Perry is not that impressive; but Hayek is really the star. Others in the cast: Jill Clayburgh, Jon Tenney and Tomas Milian. Nice soundtrack featuring: Chris Isaak, Dean Martin, The Iguanas, Peggy Lee and three well placed Elvis Presley tunes, believe it or not "Viva Las Vegas" was not one of them.

RResende Yet another story inserted in the conventional romance film invaded by comedy and with a comedian in the main role.There's nothing relevant here, if you like Matthew Perry as a TV actor he won't disappoint you here, i suppose. He made a good part of his career in television and that shows (on the negative side) on his films. See 'the whole nine yards' and compare his comedy timings with those of Bruce Willis or compare his cinema performances with those of other actors more rooted in cinema like Brendan Fraser. He doesn't pull things off like they do. But here he is, TV fans of him will probably appreciate something of what he does here.The common cliché of portraying Latin American cultures in Hollywood films (most of all the mexicans, for proximity) is something that look odd today. These last 11 years brought to a mass distribution many films from some Latin American cinema industries, and the lives depicted in those films proved films like this one ridiculous. There's more than coloured walls, Christian beliefs and certain paternal macho attitudes in Mexican culture, as in any culture. Probably in 11 years we'll see similar odd things in films being made right now.My opinion: 1/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com

Tommy Nelson "Fools Rush In" is not funny, not romantic, not cute, it has a slight heart, but that's about it. Not one joke in the film worked, and even if it was a mediocre one (which is the best they had), it still was terrible because of Matthew Perry's awful timing and the overall bad acting.Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a semi-successful business man, and Isabel (Salma Hayek) is fresh out of Mexico in Las Vegas trying to make a name for herself as an artist. These two have a one night stand, and *surprise, surprise* Isabel becomes pregnant. The plot, which consists of dozens of bad jokes and clichés, has Alex and Isabel becoming a couple and how their different cultures collide. This was a comedy, but I did not laugh once. The only person to have joke lines was Matthew Perry, and he was not funny in the least. Any time the movie was trying to be romantic, it become extremely corny. The climax of the movie ended in the rain (despite that it didn't show any signs of rain the rest of the film). One bad cliché after another corny joke, with bad acting thrown in cannot make a good movie.My rating: * out of ****. 113 mins. PG-13 for language and sexuality.