Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Continuing my plan to watch every Johnny Depp movie in order, I come to Don Juan De Marco (1994)Depp's performance is a must see. In Edward Scissorhands, Benny & Joon and What's Eating Gilbert Grape he showed the talent an actor needs to slip into the darkness of the soul and find comedy there. Like both of those films, this one deals with mental illness: Depp plays a character who is convinced he is Don Juan, the world's greatest lover. He gets other people to believe it, too, in dialogue that maybe only Depp could have delivered it, with his big soulful, expressive eyes. He must be one of the few actors who can get away with sincerely speaking the dialogue in this movie, dressed like he is, but he does. Like with Edward Scissorhands and Benny & Joon he is both touching and more importantly totally convincing. Brando sleepwalks through this movie on autopilot in a bloted, self-indulgent performance, mumbling his dialogue so badly its often inaudible, no one else could have gotten away with this performance. In the 50's he proved he can be one of the best actors in movie history, by the time he phoned this one in, he was proving he could be one of the worst. When he is told "You've been phoning it in for ages now". The irony is not lost. He totally spoils the movie. It's your quirky, oddball Depp movie that I love, and he drags it down, sapping all the fun out of it. There are certain parallels with Brando then and the Depp of the last 10 years, that is too obvious to ignore. Both seemingly became very bored with acting after becoming stupidly popular, and then began phoning it in, in paycheck movies!!Like Benny & Joon, this movie also had a hit single attached to it. The Bryan Adams track Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?I would have ranked it 8/10, but it loses a point for Brando.Don Juan Demarco was not a hit at the domestic box office. It was the 74th highest grossing movie of the year, with a domestic haul of $22 million against a $25 million budget.

A psychiatrist must cure a young patient that presents himself as Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. A great love story of the man presenting himself as Don Juan & his romance as well as with his parents - oddly improving the love of his psychiatrist's life to top it all off. Love and Tragedy are strong in this film.Top notch film - worth watching!9/10

First time I ever went to movies with my first girlfriend, first encounter with Johnny Depp and forever one of my favorite movies.9/10Character is based on Lord Byron's Don Huan, movie is produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Kamen was in charge of music, main song is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written, and with such geniuses as Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway and, one of the best actors of all times, Marlon Brando in leading roles, movie is simply perfect.In my opinion, essence of this movie, and also essence of life itself, is perfectly described in one of the last sentences of this movie: "Why not..."

for the meeting between Brando and Deep. for the music of Bryan Adams. for the story - mixture of crumbs of fairy tale and lovely romanticism. for the message. for a kind of cinnamon aura. for a form of seduction who do not transforms it in a blockbuster but in source of a lot of comfortable memories. a psychiatrist. and a kind of hero. it is enough for a soft adventure in which the emotions becomes more important than the story itself. one of small movies who represents a delight. and it is enough for a fascinating trip in heart of a sort of miracles. little didacticist, it is sweet, naive, amusing. a good work. without high ambitions but with chance to impress. a beautiful movie. so, see it for a time of of relaxation.