Second Honeymoon (2001)

Expected more

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Blistering performances.

Predictable, but extremely humorous. There was absolutely fine chemistry existing between Roma Downey and Tim Matheson here.Putting the soon to be divorced couple in a Robinson Crusoe like atmosphere really hit the top. Perhaps, we see the realization that a couple needs quiet time together in order to work things out.Otherwise, the scenes dealing with the vacation, arranged by the family who don't know about their separation, are quite humorous.The film also invariably proves that love conquers all.The magistrate was great. Apparently, he saw that the 20 year married couple had potential and he worked feverishly for a reconciliation.A light, heart-warming film. It shows a couple that lost touch with each other due to their immersion in work. This time out film really works.

Keywords: "Second Honeymoon" (2001) movie, windsurfing, razor bay...I only have comments on how the windsurfing was portrayed in this movie. While being humorous and funny, some of the windsurfing was grossly and incompently depicted.First, Tim Matheson says "I want to go windsurfing while the waves are good". Does this imply that he wants to windsurf in the waves? If so, the fact that in the next scene he is shown taking a beginning windsurfing lesson is contradictory. If the references to "good waves" means "whitecaps" or "high wind" that is also contradictory, since the very next scene shows Tim windsuring in light (estimated) 5-10 mph winds.Second, after Tim has mastered the "basics of windsurfing", 2 hours later on, he is enticed by a woman to try "advanced windsurfing" in Razor Bay. He is shown as going fast (hydro-planing or skimming fast on the water) before he falls in. It is highly improbable that he would be able to do this after a 2 hour introductory lesson.Anyway.. its refreshing to see some windsurfing in a regular movie.

I thought that a former television movie that Roma Downey did, Borrowed Hearts, was wonderful, so I decided to watch this one. Obviously she doesn't try to make these films alike. Roma's character spent almost the whole movie crying! I don't see why she even cared about keeping her marriage with her husband. He'd scream at her and she'd start crying. That was the concept of the whole movie. Roma appeared to be trying hard to make the movie a success, but that apparently didn't happen. It had good ratings, but it might make some of her fans from her former movies stop watching them. It's obvious that some of Roma is capable of making good movies, but this wasn't one of them.

It was very disappointing to see Roma participate in such a poor excuse for a movie. It appeared to me that she was trying to break away from being typecast, but I really wish that she had done it with better material.The seeming moral of this movie is that you can take a couple that is drifting hopelessly apart, strand them on a deserted island for a couple of days, and then they can live happily ever after. What a great concept! With enough deserted islands, who needs Dr. Laura?One thing that continually went through my mind was why she tried so hard to save this marriage? Her husband was a selfish loser, and a philanderer wannabe, giving the rest of us men a bad reputation. I was rooting for her to dump him the whole time. The worst part of this movie was the fact that he never repented or reformed.On the plus side, there were several good laughs, it was for the most part quite wholesome, everyone does eventually live happily ever after, and the beautiful Roma put in a good performance as always. It can definitely be categorized as light, humorous, family entertainment.