Simply Irresistible (1999)

Sarah Michelle Gellar is so much like Drew Barrymore in the sense of: even if their movie's terrible, they're always so cute, adorable and has so much charisma and talent, you want to rate the movie even higher.Sadly, she was the only bright spot on this lousy 90s rom-com. While there are multiple problems here, the main one involves magic and earning nothing. I had no problem the movie was centered around some magic spells from some actor they only paid for an hour's worth of scenes until he mysteriously turns into a crab, but since the entire romance and a restaurant owner's success is only built around said magic, no one earned anything that should've come on its own.Basically, as Amanda's (Gellar) restaurant is about to fold, she meets a Crab-man who uses some kind of off-screen spell to make her cooking excel and her and a shallow man fall in love. No real explanation is given or accepted by anyone and when unexplained events occur, Amanda just brushes them off. Only her man, Tom, thinks things are odd.Since no one learns any kind of lesson, improves themselves on their own or feeds the crab that strangely stays alive for weeks without food or water, it's hard to get behind our characters we're supposed to care about.Again, Gellar gives her all. She's talented, charming and even she can't save this. No reason to see this, even if you're a Gellar fan. I have a strong feeling she'd agree with me on this one.***Final thoughts: Haven't heard of this movie? Well, neither have I and I study movies like I'm always trying to pass the movie bar. Since the fantastic How Did This Get Made? podcast covered this, I had to watch it so their show would make more sense. And speaking of which, I hope they do make sense out of this mess.

This is Sarah Michelle Gellar's best movie! Unpretentious, genuine young lady battling the reality of small business and about to see her whole world go down the kitchen drain when she is saved by wonder.And that is what this story is about wonder.. and food.For me the details are everything. The plot is simple and that is probably what disturbs a number of the reviewers.. but they admit it themselves.. and they can't put their finger on it. Here we finally have a story where everything suddenly goes right. And wouldn't you like that to happen to you at least once! The movie has name players but not A-listers. The story features a great deal to do with savouring the taste of food, and who would go to see a movie based on food? Yet.. there are few pictures I enjoy more than this one. I am not a SMG fan, but in this motion picture Sarah is absolutely perfectly cast. It is her 13 Going On 30 role!

I expected less of this movie,really,I did!!Actually,I wonted to see if Sara know how to act because Buffy is one thing and movies another.So,I started to watch movie with so little expectation that you would be surprised.And I liked the movie!It was sweet.And Sara always have good lucking mans for partners.It started like every other romantic comedy: girl and boy meet,they falling in love etc.But,here comes the magic part-she was bad cook and she becomes fantastic cook with help of magic crab!And it start to be something different movie then usually.I must say that Sara surprised me like a actress.She was convincing like the girl who cook bad without magic.She had a lot of magic and demons and vampires and staff in Buffy.But this is different kind of staff and she handled it raider well.So,I liked this film.

I'm a sucker for romantic comedies. And I'm a bigger fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar/Prinze so maybe I'm a little biased when it comes to this movie.Okay, so there are some pretty big flaws. But compared to most "chick flick" romantic comedies released these past couple years, Simply Irresistible is just simply much more enjoyable. The plot is simple, (wow, I need to use a thesaurus) but somehow it brings out the more romantic part in me. We've got these two beautiful actors, a magic crab, and voilà! They fall in love. Not all movies have to be complex and "deep" in order to be enjoyable and this movie proves just that. Light, fun, fairytale romance. What girl wouldn't say "awwwweh" to that?