Alex & Eve

This is a film that is full of stereotypes, utterly predictable but with a happy ending. It's all fluff but ultimately gets the message across that love conquers all. The odd thing is that both cultures, Lebanese and Greek, are very similar, it's only the religion that would get in the way. Lebanese Christians are Greek Orthodox but I guess that would not have made a good story!

I thought this was a pretty good film. It is quite funny in parts, and heartwarming as well, and well, romantic.

The only people not liking it here seem to be fundamentalists who are an every decreasing minority within Islam. E.G. reviewer "mohamedgamal-07660", who my guess is not in Australia, Canada or the US. Most third generation Muslims do not marry other Muslims. ESPECIALLY educated women are least likely to marry another Muslim. A huge portion of second generation (children of immigrants) do not as well. I am tying to figure out if this upsets the reviewer and what business it is of his anyway? How dare he call it an "insult to Islam" as if he is the arbiter of what Islam is or is not.

If you know anything about the region where these people come from , with its may places, eg, Alexandria, Beirut, Istanbul, etc that for hundreds and hundreds of years had people living together and often intermarrying. These places only recently became mono-cultural, and that is artificial.

The premise had potential but falls flat in numerous areas: 1. Characters felt like stereotyped cardboard cut outs. At times I could almost hear an Aussie accent coming out of the Greek dad who was perhaps putting on a stereotypical Greek accent 2. The 'love' between Alex & Eve was not believable. How did they get from meeting at a bar to deciding they wanted to spend their lives together?

3. The stereotypes of the 2 cultures were surface level and did not reveal any deeper truths about the families/cultures/religion. It was a missed opportunity to break stereotypes and help viewers from other cultures and religious backgrounds to understand the values and struggles of these 2 particular groups.

Its an entertaining movie for an afternoon at home, you get a fair bit of laughs, enjoy the multi cultural aspects, a good dose of romance, beautiful catchy songs and good chemistry between the 2 leads. Yes, you most probably have seen the plot before in many inter-racial/religion romance movies but this movie still delivers on an entertainment level.

This has got to be the most predictable stupid movie. The characters are all complete morons. The characters are so unlikeable, especially the supporting characters. The only bright spot are the few scenes with the students.

This movie really makes you realize how great Hallmark movies really are. They may be dumb, but at least they are enjoyable.