Runaway Bride Critic Reviews

The central idea is quite clever and appealing, and that the charm meter is turned up all the way.Read the full review

The movie-calendar equivalent of last July's "Six Days, Seven Nights," this star-powered romance overcomes a shaky start to outpace that passable confection by several runaway laps.Read the full review

Wonderful characters keep the movie from gagging on sweetness.Read the full review

Once the premise had been established and the leads began to interact, I stopped totting up the inanities and had a good time.Read the full review

More often, the film is like a ride through a car wash: forward motion, familiar phases in the same old order and a sense of being carried along steadily on a well-used track. It works without exactly showing signs of life.Read the full review

The difference between "Pretty Woman" and Runaway Bride is that we can no longer buy Roberts in her tearful romantic-melancholy mode. It seems vaguely patronizing now.Read the full review

After seeing Gere and Roberts play much smarter people (even in romantic comedies), it is painful to see them dumbed down here. The screenplay is so sluggish, they're like Derby winners made to carry extra weight.Read the full review

Fans of Gere and Roberts may not care about the movie's many implausibilities and other shortcomings because the stars do indeed sparkle like the bubbles in wedding champagne. But the rest of us will find the vintage too sweet.Read the full review

A clumsy motion picture that strives so hard for the perfect romantic ending that it triggers a gag reflex along the way.Read the full review