3/5 I'm the Milky Way Man, and I know everything!
  by C. CRADDOCK (Bakersfield)
In "Addicted to Love," Matthew Broderick plays Sam, an Astronomer, who is deeply in love with Linda (Kelly Preston). He is so happy, but then she suddenly leaves him, and he drops his job and tries to track her down. Sam, do you realize how many people graduate with degrees in Astronomy, and how few positions are available? Why the ratio of Astronomy Graduates to Astronomy Positions, is well... Astronomical! You had a job, and you even correctly predicted Alpha Cluster emissions! Why did you toss that aside to chase after Linda? You became a stalker, and once that happens, your chance of getting her back is a lot less than your chance of getting a restraining order.

Though I admit that the Astronomer does make a handy paradigm for a voyeur/stalker, and when the writer had you set up that Camera Obscura in the abandoned building conveniently located just across the street, that was a pretty bold and brilliant move. But when the writer added a second stalker, the motorcycle ridin' Maggie (Meg Ryan), the ex girlfriend of Linda's lover, who installed listening devices to compliment the Camera Obscura visuals, that really made it hard to suspend our disbelief.

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Maggie: I don't want him back, I just want him vaporized, extinguished! When I'm done with him, he'll be just a twitching little stain on the floor.
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Had "Addicted to Love" been funnier, I might have been willing to suspend my disbelief. I might have applauded the audacious visual metaphor. As it was, it was a mediocre Romantic Comedy, and therefore the premise merely seemed ludicrous. Kelly Preston didn't have a very big part as Linda, but even so, you could see that she was much better as Chirk in "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000." Meg Ryan took the hand she was dealt and made the most of it. Her Maggie was no Bonnie, Alice Green, or even a Sally Albright. Matthew Broderick was adequate, and that's about it. His performance won't make you forget his Steven M. Kovacs in "The Cable Guy" anytime soon. The Ferris Bueller legacy is secure.

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Maggie: Well, that is, without a doubt, the most pathetic thing I've ever heard.
Sam: You don't understand...
Maggie: And I don't mean that in a trivial way. I'm a photographer; I've seen a lot of things. I once took pictures of a man who ate his own legs, and you would be the black sheep of that family.
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Battlefield Earth - A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000) Kelley Preston was Chirk
Election (1999) Matthew Broderick was Jim McAllister
Hurlyburly (New Line Platinum Series) (1998) Meg Ryan was Bonnie
The Cable Guy (Full Screen) (1996) Matthew Broderick was Steven M. Kovacs
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) Meg Ryan was Alice Green
The Doors (Special Edition) (1991) Meg Ryan was Pamela Courson
When Harry Met Sally (1989) Meg Ryan was Sally Albright
Torch Song Trilogy (1988) Matthew Broderick was Alan Simon
Biloxi Blues (1988) Matthew Broderick was Eugene Morris Jerome
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Matthew Broderick was Ferris Bueller

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Sam: I'm the Milky Way Man, and I know everything!
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5/5 An extremely funny dark comedy.
  by Bryan
And it is a dark comedy. Most of the negative reviews fault the movie for being too mean spirited. Well, as every great comedian knows, the best comedy comes from pain, and the more you exaggerate the pain, the funnier it becomes. This film is about an exaggerated and ultimately misguided sense of revenge. But it's that exaggeration that makes it funny. Matthew Broderick's and Meg Ryan's characters acts of retribution are so over the top that no one with common sense should take them seriously enough to be offended by them. And the film's ultimate lesson is that revenge harms all sides and forgiveness heals everyone concerned.

4/5 Funny
  by DVD Fan
This movie is quirky and a little weird, but it is very funny. I would recommend it!

5/5 There's no way to talk yourself out of 'dumped.'
  by Elspeth Fahey (Darkest Wales)
As the title of this review indicates, this is one of the lessons they don't teach in school, and this is precisely what the film explores. Once the realization has been made that there is no way to return to the way things were, then the anger sets in, and in the case of this film the bar is continually raised by the two protagonists on ways to exact vengeance, to entertaining - and possibly cathartic - effect for the viewer.

It is wittily written, smoothly directed and edited, lovely to look at and features a camera obscura. It is also one of the most European films I have ever seen come out of America - definitely to its credit. It is dark and light in all the right places and the actors (particularly Karyo, who is always a pleasure to watch) are right on form. Much has been made of the treatment meted out to "poor Anton," yet no one is entirely innocent in this film. That is one of its liberating joys.

All in all, one of the more important comedies of the 90's.

2/5 Pointless . .
  by L. K. Elmore (Pacific Northwest)
What a mess of a movie - Matthew Broderick is SO much better than this waste of time. Just a totally pointless movie. Well as long as Meg Ryan got in her little "dance" she does in every single one of her movies, I guess all is not lost.