The other film I chose to watch for Valentine’s Day this year was sadly not audio described in the Apple Store sale. However, I’ve seen Fools Rush In a handful of times, and it is probably my favorite movie featuring Matthew Perry. Ever since his passing last year, I’ve been meaning to revisit his mid-90’s romantic comedy with Salma Hayek, and this sale allowed me to do that. It also really reminded me of the heavy use of montages in this film which are a pain in the ass when you don’t have audio description, even if this is your 4th or 5th time through the film.
Perry would go on to pick some forgotten stinkers like Almost Heroes and Three To Tango, but Fools Rush in has held on. It has fans. It trended on the Apple Store pretty high after Perry’s death, far more than any other film featuring him. I’m not even sure the other aforementioned titles cracked the Top 100.
In this easy going flick, Perry plays a nightclub developer who is sent to Las Vegas to oversee the construction of a new club. While he’s there, he meets a fun and freewheeling Salma Hayek, and the two hit it off immediately. Things go so well, that she disappears for a time, and when she reappears it is only to tell him that she’s pregnant, and it’s his. From there, two people who barely know each other make a commitment to each other, deal with each other’s skeptical friends and family, and the pressures that they didn’t realize they’d have when a one night stand turns into a forever relationship.
Perhaps, one day, for the sake of all Matthew Perry fans, this will have audio description available with it on any platform it is on. Perry was the kind of actor who had a sarcastic charm, he worked jokes in the same way Ryan Reynolds does with that earnestness but always looking for the punchline, and he had the on screen presence of a fast talking Aaron Sorkin character.
this is a film that wasn’t received well by critics, but audiences have come to accept it as a good romcom choice. It may never crack the top echelon of Pretty Woman or When harry Met Sally, but there’s enough charm here, and a connection between our leads that Fools Rush In will be the film to keep Matthew Perry in our hearts.
Due to the lack of audio description, I have to say the film is not one I can recommend to a blind audience, which is what I now am. the film benefits from me already having had seen it, and a grade would represent likely more of that, and ow my feelings have evolved in the years since. There is no specific grade, but I wouldn’t keep watching a film I didn’t like.