Miramax Films | Release Date: December 21, 2001
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CypressHillApr 13, 2016
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Kate and Leopold is an ingenious, amusing and romantic movie. The movie has a brilliant fantasy plot that is unique, engrossing and the cast has perfect chemistry. The character Stuart in the movie finds a time portal that allows him to travel back to the late seventeenth century. He takes photos and he is observing Leopold because they are related. Leopold notices him and he follows him back to modern day New York. The movie then becomes hilarious because Leopold doesn't know how to act and live in modern society. He hasn't seen a TV, vehicles, razors, skateboards et cetera. In the movie Leopold is the inventor of the elevator although he is unaware of this since he doesn't invent the elevator till years after his encounter with Stuart. Leopold is going to wed a wealthy woman in his time because his family isn't wealthy. Also his uncle wants him to wed
a woman who has a prominent family. Leopold falls for Meg Ryan's character and the movie has clever, amusing dialogue. In the epilogue Kate decides to live with Leopold in the 1700's after being convinced by
Stuart. This is one of the wittiest, original movies of 2001.
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Spar154May 8, 2021
Hugh Jackman took etiquette lessons from 19th-century etiquette expert Jane Gibson (who trained actors for such projects as Sense and Sensibility (1995)). He also studied ballroom dancing and trained to ride a horse for the film.
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dabble26May 12, 2021
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Character Error At the mental hospital, Stuart claims that dogs are colorblind and wouldn't be able to see a rainbow. While dogs are colorblind (they have deuteranopia) they would still be able to see a rainbow, just not all of the colors of the rainbow. Expand
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Dysphoric22May 13, 2021
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Stuart: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.

Gretchen: I believe you.
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Obstinate177May 14, 2021
In an early version of the screenplay, Leopold is accidentally transported through time in an actual time machine developed by a group of scientists that includes Kate. They have a child (of whom Leopold is unaware) and eventually reuniteIn an early version of the screenplay, Leopold is accidentally transported through time in an actual time machine developed by a group of scientists that includes Kate. They have a child (of whom Leopold is unaware) and eventually reunite during the Roaring '20s. Expand
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Depose570May 15, 2021
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great Feel Good Movie!

This movie has it all, solid performances, good comedy and elements of drama when needed. Not as predictable as I thought it would be. Of course, it's a romantic comedy with Meg Ryan so we all know the ending! Meg is usual cute, cynical self which she is good at portraying. Hugh Jackman is excellent as the 19th century Duke of Albany. This man's acting was made for period pieces which makes me believe he is a great actor. This movie covers many elements of taking risks, dealing with rejection and being true above all to one's self. The movie takes it time and develops the characters, even the supporting cast. I highly recommend this movie!
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RegOzApr 5, 2012
Honestly! I thought it was hilarious! Nothing like that gruesome humour of There Is Something About Mary (that I can't stand) or Borat (ewww)! Thank Goodness we can still laugh, with classy stuff! a 7 in its genre! Delightful for sure! IHonestly! I thought it was hilarious! Nothing like that gruesome humour of There Is Something About Mary (that I can't stand) or Borat (ewww)! Thank Goodness we can still laugh, with classy stuff! a 7 in its genre! Delightful for sure! I love all the performances! Nevertheless, this is something I didn't totally like: Leopold falls in love with Kate far too quickly! We needed to see the romance developing a bit more. There should always be a transition on this matters. I did enjoy the film, indeed, but at times it was a bit corney for me...and I am a girl (very feminine but not girly-girl). Thumbs up, anyway! Expand
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SpangleFeb 15, 2017
An inventive and charming romantic comedy with a time travelling twist, Kate & Leopold feels similar to the more recent About Time, but with less impeccable cuteness. Yet, what is lacks in cuteness is makes up for with charm from HughAn inventive and charming romantic comedy with a time travelling twist, Kate & Leopold feels similar to the more recent About Time, but with less impeccable cuteness. Yet, what is lacks in cuteness is makes up for with charm from Hugh Jackman. A real life version of an internet user calling every girl "m'lady", but with the plot twist of him actually meaning it, Jackman plays Leopold, Duke of Albany. Brought to 2001 from 1876 by his great grandson Stuart (Liev Schreiber), a scientist who discovered time portals, time bends and stars collide when he meets Kate (Meg Ryan). The ex-girlfriend of Stuart, Kate and Leopold quickly fall for one another, but must overcome the fact that their time period is over 100 years apart and Leopold must go back to 1876 or Stuart will not be born. Sticky stuff, really. In the vital words of Matthew McConaughey, "Time is a flat circle". Kate & Leopold is the very embodiment of this.

Hinting at its finale - that Kate and Leopold will be together, duh - from the very first scene when Leopold notices Stuart taking photos at a party thrown to celebrate Leopold choosing a wife. As Leopold chases after Stuart, he runs past Kate at the party. How did she get there, you ask? You honestly know without watching the movie. This is the problem with these romantic comedies. They are also so predictable. Kate & Leopold is no exception and is not set to bust expectations. Its time traveling makes no sense and ill-defined, just as in About Time. But man is it ever charming. It is romantic and shows that nothing can keep people apart, but sometimes, you just have to take a leap of faith in order to land the one person meant for you. Here, Jackman and Ryan sell it hard with terrific chemistry, Jackman turning up the charm, and Ryan playing an unlikable, but soon oddly cute character in this romantic comedy. Funnily enough, the film gets a bit self-reflexive in a deleted scene added in the director's cut with Kate at a movie screening in her job as a market researcher. Complaining to the film's director that the entire test audience hated the lead because she was unlikable, he fires back that he believes she is likable, but screws up sometimes and deserves a pass for that just as Kate would get a pass. In a bit of self-reflexiveness, Kate fires back that she is not a character in a romantic comedy. Though not a crucial scene, it is a funny bit since Kate is an unlikable character in a romantic comedy on the surface.

In reality, she is not unlikable at all. How would one react to hearing that a time portal was opened by your ex-boyfriend? Well, Stuart gets locked up in a mad house for spouting off that he opened a portal and both Kate and her brother Charlie (Breckin Meyer) write him off as a hardcore method actor. Kate even goes so far as casting him as a spokesman for a crappy butter company. She is a career-focused woman who gets met with pervy bosses who want her to sleep with them for promotions. Her whole day is marketing crappy products to moronic customers and she, though she spins it in her mind, is unhappy with this lifestyle. She wants more and when offered more by Leopold, it is really an offer she cannot refuse.

Featuring Jackman at his most charming and Ryan, coming off of some plastic surgery that made her upper lip curl up oddly and be too full (it is really distracting once you notice it) and from making romantic movies with every popular 1980s/1990s/early 2000s actor (no seriously, Tom Hanks, Denzel, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Kline, Billy Crystal, Nicolas Cage, Russell Crowe, and Val Kilmer), gets to add another popular leading man from the era to her stable. The duo making for an alluring pairing and really do work together. The are a bit of romantic foils with Leopold a hopelessly old fashioned romantic and Kate a "masculine", career-focused woman who wants romance, but never thinks she will be able to find it. While not inventive here, it does work impeccably well.

Charming, interesting due to the time travel angle, and pairing together two equally charismatic leads, Kate & Leopold is definitely an early-2000s film. That said, it is a fun film that has some messy time travel, is cliched, and predictable, but like a good McDonald's burger with some fries and a coke, it is entirely irresistible when you are hungry.
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NickonAramiyDec 16, 2013
wanna see a good fantasy/romance time travel magical Disney flick go watch Enchanted (2007) wanna see Hugh Jackman in that tale this is your movie
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ViolaridiosOct 7, 2018
Soooo boring. Kate and Leopold, are they really in love? No chemistry at all.
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Lanyard980Aug 7, 2021
Well Done !!!!

I must admit the characters in Kate & Leopold were superb.! Meg Ryan was great and Hugh Jackman .... incredible. This is the kind of movie you'd skip a night out in town on a saturday night to watch. This is definitely for the
Well Done !!!!

I must admit the characters in Kate & Leopold were superb.! Meg Ryan was great and Hugh Jackman .... incredible. This is the kind of movie you'd skip a night out in town on a saturday night to watch. This is definitely for the women out there who still believe in true romance. I'm one of them ! I really don't mind watching Hugh Jackman in more comedy romances. Leopold will sweep you off your feet and steal your heart away.!
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Vicinity578Aug 15, 2021
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A comedy, romance, drama and a time travel storyline all wrapped up in a neat little bow. Unwrap this present and enjoy the classic romantic-comedy with a twist that is Kate & Leopold. Expand
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