erikacunanan29 MORE REVIEWS AT booksequalhappiness.blogspot.comThis is a rewatch (I've rewatched this many this) and I still love it. I love the story between Lizzie and David. It was interesting to see that their relationship started as hatred and then turned into something more. I was devastated for Lizzie when she found out what happened to her and I'm glad that David tried to help her. It was touching and very funny to watch. David is so adorable.

Syo Kennex Just Like Heaven is a 2005 romantic comedy featuring Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon. Catching this on the television when I was on holiday, I decided to settle down and watch it, just because I had nothing else to do whilst waiting to go out. I found a funny, sweet, very sensitive and almost realistic touch to a love story between mortal and ghost. It's been a long time since I really enjoyed a romantic comedy, but Just Like Heaven brings it all perfectly. Mark Ruffalo plays the lonely, sensitive man, who wants to know what love is. To want to have someone to love. Reese Witherspoon plays the ghost of the doctor who works too hard to have a love life, and doesn't know how to really step back to focus on love. When Witherspoon's ghost ends up attached to Ruffalo, they're both unhappy with it. They annoy each other, they get on each other's nerves, but slowly, we see the sweet romance - although predictable - bloom between them. No points for originality, but definitely points for doing it in such a sweet way. There wasn't a massive change of heart, where they go from hate to love in seconds, but we saw it develop. We saw them thrive off of each other, and slowly coming round to each other. This is rarely done in romantic comedies, especially in modern films, so seeing this done so beautifully was an absolute treat. Ruffalo and Witherspoon truly bring their characters to life. It's something that is expected of actors and actresses. For characters to seem real just because they're played by real people - but both actor and actress take the medal for me. They really made both characters feel like they were people I could actually find in the street, people that were just trying to live their every day lives, maybe they could even be my neighbours, or an aunt or uncle. I felt like I knew them, that I knew these characters created in a script, as if they had been in my life for a long time.Never before have I found a romantic comedy so sweet, so fun, and just so. Real. The jokes were really on point for the humour of 2005, but also, they're still funny now. They're still relatable, and it's not easy to find a film from over a decade ago that is still funny. Humour ends up outdated, just like everything else in the film industry, so finding the humour in this to still be a gem was wonderful.I would definitely watch this again, and I definitely recommend it to people, even now in 2017. This would be my first recommendation for anyone who asked me for a romantic comedy film to watch. Absolutely spectacular. I hope to see more films in recent years become more like Just Like Heaven.

witster18 Notting Hill started right after. It must be rom-com late night tonight. My first thought is I think I liked this a touch better than Notting Hill actually. Maybe it's the whole British thang.. ? .. Bah I love Brit/pop, love special bitter ales, AND a lot of British films... Then what is it? I dunno, maybe I find Ruffalo and Witherspoon more charming? Nah, I don't think that's it. I think it's the chemistry, but now that I think about it some more I do prefer Ruffalo to Grant's ever-loathsome character(plays that guy a bit too much actually). While both films are predictable(whole genre) - I think Just like Heaven comes together a bit better down the stretch. So Witherspoon and Ruffalo work great together here, and the race against time plot also adds quite a bit to the second half. The supporting roles are written and acted with care, and obviously this is a rom-com with enough charm to over-ride the sap for the fellas. I can definitely recommend this and may even need to revisit 2005's top-25 list to see if this creeps in the bottom. It may, and considering I see about 80+ films a year, that's quite the accomplishment.. I can count those that have this millennium on one hand.. This years"Aloha", last years "Enough Said".. Maybe as good as it gets.. Maybe devil wears Prada... "Silver linings and seeking a Friend from '12, Barneys Version Midnight in Paris from the couple years before that... Either way I only see 1-2 make my top 25 most any given year, so that would probably make this top two for the genre in '05.. Let me go look.. Yea, I wouldn't call Wedding Crashers a rom-com even though it's close so that would make this clearly the best rom com for '05 and I'm putting it at #25, as believe it or not, it knocks "revenge of the sith" off the list(the only of the 2nd trilogy to now have 'made a list' for any time. 69/100

Harout Hi, I have never been so hard on a movie but wow, that was really bad.Why ? Simply because I have read the book before watching the movie. (Be careful : the following text contains book spoilers) The scenarists just have changed EVERYTHING compared to the original scenario. The book is awesome and really romantic and cute. They have just taken off all the magic of the book.They have changed the whole background about David (his real name is Arthur), how he's an architect and how he's a business and life partner with his friend Paul (Jack in the movie). They are really really close in the book compared to the movie.Second of all, we don't see Elizabeth's sister in the book but her mother...There is also a really GIANT part of the book that have been cut off, it's when they kidnap Elizabeth... This kidnapping took a big preparation in the book and after the kidnapping they took the body in David/Arthur mother's house.Damn, seriously they just have KILLED the book, I shouldn't have watched that.There's also a sequel for the book and I hope they will not make a movie out of it.TL;DR The movie is really bad compared to the book, if you liked the movie just try the book you will LOVE it.(Sorry about my English, it's not my native language)