Happily Ever After (1990) Critic Reviews
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Stylish and only superficially superficial, Happily Ever After plunks us down with three male friends as they dance on the edge of their 40s.Read the full review
A marital comedy as perceptive as it is delectable.Read the full review
If this strikes some as some kind of gallingly blasé, ostentatious Parisian sophistication, it's far from it.Read the full review
Nobody does adultery in movies with more style and zest than the French, especially when the mode is frivolous. And anyone who watches Happily Ever After can identify with the grass-is-always-greener daydreams that haunt its characters.Read the full review
It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack.Read the full review
Manages to be a diverting and funny character study, at least most of the time.Read the full review
There's nothing much wrong with the film; my complaint is that there's nothing much right about it.Read the full review
On the whole, the film is a shallow, shrill, and all-too-familiar marital roundelay.Read the full review
Repetitive and needlessly prolonged tale does build to an inspired final scene, but it's too little, too late.Read the full review
