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THREE TO TANGO (PG-13)

Reviewed October 24, 1999 - Check out the Three to Tango Website.

Studio Synopsis: Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) is an idealistic, young architect on the rise. Boyishly handsome and funny, Oscar and his business partner, Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt), have just landed a career-making opportunity-Chicago tycoon Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott) has chosen them to compete for the design of a multi-million dollar cultural center. In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in a neck-and-neck competition with their archrivals and former colleagues, the hugely successful (and equally ruthless) Decker and Strauss.

Impressed with Oscar's feverish dedication to winning the job, Charles assigns him the additional task of spying on his mistress, Amy Post (Neve Campbell), a woman who Charles guards as jealously as he guards his investments. Oscar's bumbling attempts at surveillance fail, but he does develop a crush on Amy, a beautiful and headstrong artist, who begins to return his growing affection. Much to his chagrin, Oscar may have finally found the woman of his dreams. But Oscar's dream is short-lived when he discovers that the jealous Charles has assigned him this special job only because he (mistakenly) believes that Oscar is gay...

Fuzzydog Review: Three to Tango is a romantic comedy whose plotlines derive from many familiar sources.  Indeed, this film's similarities to the nineties comedies For Love or Money (with Michael J. Fox) and In and Out (with Kevin Kline) are almost uncanny at points.  Obviously, originality and creativity are not the goals of this very light and sugary-sweet movie; instead, it seems to have been manufactured for nearly 100 minutes of simple charm, personality and warm humor...and you know what?  It works. 

Credit here has to go to the charismatic performances of this film's four stars (Perry, Campbell, McDermott and Platt), who all have a proven track record of on-screen "watchability."  Perry, clearly the centerpiece of the film's action, more or less reprises his role as Chandler on TV's Friends, and he does so with great success.  If you've seen or are a fan of Friends, you'll have some sense of Three to Tango's humor and tone...reason enough for some of you to go see (or completely avoid) this film.  Nope, this isn't Shakespeare, and you certainly won't find anything stunningly insightful in the body of this comedic tale.  However, if you're simply in the mood for some fluffy, light-hearted entertainment, Three to Tango may be just your ticket.

Responses from cyberspace--thanks for writing!

David Rogers gives this movie  stars: "There is not much to say about this movie, but it was OK." (10/10/00)

jos.swillen@ping.be gives this movie  stars: "It 's a greate movie with great actors!!!!I love Romentic komedies!!! But where can i found pics of them?(i mean of neve , matthew,...) Thaaaaaaanks!!!! xxxxxxxxx-Sacha" (8/30/00)

peet@chello.nl gives this movie  stars: "first * Matthew Perry second * Neve Campbell third * warm humor fourth * cos the tears in my eye's fifth * music" (6/24/00)