Definitely, Maybe [Blu-ray]

Can't believe I didn't watch this during President Bill Clinton's era. It's really a nice movie and he works on President Bill Clinton's campaign team. I'm glad the one woman is unaffiliated and happy they had someone in the movie like that. I myself was unaffiliated so it's great to see a actress representing it in her role. Good movie that's comical with some romance.

As a Isla Fisher fan I loved this film! Ryan Reynolds and the rest of the cast delivered an exciting romantic ride of which girlfriend is the mom!

SO CUTE!!!! so amazing

(THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS NEAR THE END!!!) I saw this on HBO while on a business trip, sort of against my will, as I couldn't find anything else on TV. I was pleasantly surprised, as it's a really good movie (as long as you aren't overly analytical about it).Ryan Reynolds plays Will, a 30-something dad with a 10 year old daughter, Maya, (played beautifully by Abagail Breslin). Will is on the verge of divorce from his wife/Maya's mother. Maya is clearly upset by the upcoming split, and an ill-timed sex ed class (isn't 10 a little young for Sex Ed? I've forgotten...) triggers lots of questions for her dad about how he met her mother and why he married her. He proceeds to tell Maya the story of the three women he has loved without disclosing which one is her mother.Disclaimers:1) You have to suspend your logic while watching this movie, as Breslin is precocious well beyond her years and asks questions and makes insightful observations many adults don't make.2) This review has a few SPOILERS in it - not anything you can't figure out, but I some folks don't want to know what happens.I think there are many things to recommend this film:1) The chemistry between Will and Maya is great... They play the father/daughter combo with aplomb. Breslin is great (as she was in Little Miss Sunshine).2) Summer (played by Rachel Weisz) and April (played by Isla Fisher) are great as two of Will's loves. Each plays a perfect character that complements Will. You get a real sense of how he could have ended up with either of them (and almost does, or does).3) Ryan Reynolds is quite effective as a more complex character - it is a real treat to see Van Wilder's deeper side. It's clear from Reynolds' other roles that he has range. He hasn't picked very many vehicles before this that display it. It suits him.The biggest issue with the film? (Here's a SPOILER!). Ironically, I was least impressed with Emily (Elizabeth Banks), his college sweetheart. She is the woman who is eventually turns out to be Will's wife/Maya's mom. She seemed shallower than the other two characters, and it was difficult for me to figure out why Will would have married her. While Summer lets him down in pursuit of career advancement, and April seems too mercurial to him and their timing just doesn't match, Emily cheats on Will the first time around with his piggish, chauvinistic roommate Charlie (completely far fetched, unless she is a complete idiot), and then reappears with the weak premise that "maybe our timing was off the first time", which Will inexplicably buys hook, line, and sinker. It leaves me momentarily thinking less of Will. You also cringe at times at Will's "full disclosure" to Maya of his romantic/sex life. It is a bit extensive (even if she did just have a sex ed class) with mentions of threesomes and more detail than most fathers would give their 10 (or 30) year old daughters.All in all, highly recommended. My wife and I liked it so much we bought it.

My teenage daugher's FAVORITE film starring Ryan Reynolds... she can't get enough of it. Says the storyline is smart and heartwarming.===This is not your typical romance story by a long shot. The boy doesn't get the girl and the girl doesn't get the boy--at least not yet. It isn't even your typical fairytale formula and I like that. I'm a big fan of fairytale endings. I like to see the good guys win and since life is already complicated and messy and happy endings don't always prevail, I kind of like to see them in my movies--it's a great escape! But you won't get that here. What you'll get is a bit of realism. In fact, there were moments when I thought I just might be watching a documentary play out.Maya, an 10 year old child, is given a rather explicit sex education course at school and it has left her with a multitude of questions, including how her newly divorced parents could have ever been in love in the first place. In the past, whenever she'd bring up subjects here father didn't want to deal with he'd say, "It's complicated" then promise to fill her in on the details, at a later date. But Maya is tired of hearing "it's complicated" and needs answers, now.Maybe it's the fact that he's just signed his divorce papers, or perhaps it's his need to undo the damage done during her sex education class (one in which he knew absolutely nothing about) but Will decides to cave. However, instead of simply giving his daughter the fairytale she'd been hoping for, Will decides to give her a story that is, by all accounts, complicated. For you see, Will has not had one true love in his lifetime, but three. And the three have not only left him broken-hearted but left him questioning love altogether.To make the story more interesting, and to get his daughter thinking for herself, Will changes the names of two of the girls--one being Maya's mother--though he tells her that all three names have been changed. In true mystery fashion, Maya must pay attention to the subtle clues given within the story if she wants to figure out which girl (or woman) is her mother.But something surprising happens as the story unfolds, Maya's innocent insight into the relationships helps Will discover why his marriage failed and where true love lies.Definitely, Maybe was billed as a romantic comedy but I disagree. While there were moments of laughter and it was more light-hearted than necessary, it definitely wasn't a romantic comedy in my book. As for those moments of laughter, the best lines come from Maya. They alone are worth a second viewing in my book!

Favorite Ryan Reynolds movie.

What an amazing cast and the acting was bar none. I love this shoe, and storyline. Thank you Amazon and supplier.

Vi esta película por primera vez hace años y me encantó. Es una comedia romántica poco habitual y se agradece. Recomiendo su compra sin ninguna duda.

Una película preciosa a un buen precio.

Comédie sentimentale sans prétention, filmée avec légèreté, distrayante, originale (pour le scénario) et réussie. Les acteurs sont parfaits, chacun à sa place, et les éléments du puzzle se regroupent sous nos yeux attentifs jusqu'au dénouement.

Jede Kunstform, ob Film, ob Musik, ob Buch, hat ihre eigenen Qualitäten beim Abbilden der Welt und des Lebens. Und es ist Zeit anzuerkennen, dass keine von ihnen besser oder schlechter ist, sondern jede ihren einzigartigen Blickwinkel besitzt. Alle kleiden sie die Wahrheit in eine andere Form von Fiktion, die ja nach Art des Mediums unterschiedlich stark ausfällt - und doch tragen sie alle Anzeichen der Wahrheit.Ich für meinen Teil war erfreut über die schlichte Authentizität, mit der in diesem Film die Problematik der Liebe, trefflich, abgebildet wurde. In einem Gedicht von René Char heißt es: "Ich liebe dich für immer/ zumindest jetzt." Wie wahr und zugleich traurig dieser Satz ist, gehört zur natürlichen Erfahrung beinahe jedes Menschen in der heutigen Welt, einer Welt der geschiedenen Ehen, des flüchtigen Vergnügens und der großen Suche nach der erfüllenden Liebe.Und dieser Film fängt auf seine Weise zumindest einen Teil dieser Problematik hervorragend ein.Will holt seine Tochter Maya von der Schule ab. Mit ihrer Mutter lebt er getrennt und heute Morgen hat er nun auch die Scheidungspapiere bekommen. Maya ist natürlich nicht besonders glücklich darüber, dass sich ihre Eltern scheiden lassen. Prompt, noch angespornt durch einige Fragen, die sich aus dem ersten Sexualkundeunterricht in ihrer Schule ergeben haben, will sie von ihrem Vater wissen wie es nur passieren konnte, dass zwei Menschen, die sich geliebt haben, nun wieder auseinandergehen, und warum und wie sie denn dann überhaupt zusammenkommen konnten.Will macht aus dieser unangenehmen Aufgabe, nach kurzem Zögern, ein leicht seltsames Spiel: Er erzählt die Geschichte seinen jungen Erwachsenenlebens in den 90ern, was gleichzeitig die Geschichte ist, wie er letztendlich zu ihrer Mutter fand. Schnell zeigt sich: Es gibt drei Kandidatinnen und seine Tochter soll erraten, wer ihre Mutter ist. Das Karussell des Lebens setzt sich in Bewegung...Natürlich ist dies kein Film, der große Ansprüche an das Metaphysische befriedigt oder sich auch nur einen Moment allzu weit entfernt von der ewig passablem Atmosphäre von New York City und dem geregelten Leben. Aber in der Geschichte und ihrem Fortlaufen liegt, neben der üblichen Unterhaltung, vielleicht fast unbeachtet, so etwas wie eine unverfänglich schön herauskristallisierte Form von Liebesweisheit, in deren Licht man sofort und unwillkürlich einiges von sich selbst zu bedenken beginnt und die den Film zu ein ganz klein bisschen mehr werden lässt, als bloße Hollywoodfiktion.Wiederum: Der Film ist natürlich auch keine schlechte Unterhaltung, auch ohne diese Zusatz und der Geschichte würde ich jederzeit ebenfalls mindestens 4 Sterne geben.Aber zuletzt bezaubert, rührt und entlässt einen an Filmen doch meist diese einzigartige Gefühlsskulptur ihrer selbst, welche sie einem wie mit einem Stempel kurz aufs Herz gedrückt haben, am besten. Und zum Stempel dieses Films gehört meiner Meinung nach die wirklich gut geratene Darstellung eines der großen Themen des Lebens: der Liebe in modernen Zeiten, der Liebe, die immer sagt: Vielleicht, vielleicht auch nicht - oder: defintly, maybe.