★★★★½ Please Teach Me English

[Twinkletoes: 4.5, Gino: 4.0, Twoshoes: TBA]

Twinkletoes says: "This was the funniest film I saw at the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival."

Gino says: "I will say that I expect Twoshoes will rate this highly too, and with Twinkletoes' very high marks, I feel that this will actually be inflated a bit. That said, I enjoyed this enough to give it 4 stars. It was definitely funny in a zany sort of way. The cast was very likable, and the story was complex enough to keep you interested. It was perhaps a bit longer than the material warranted at 118 minutes. Twoshoes and I thought it gained big points in that the beautiful woman with glasses playing the goofball never had the requisite Hollywood moment where she takes off her glasses and lets down her hair and the hunk falls for her and finds out she's not the plain after all. She remains goofy to the end and if he falls for her, it is partially for that."