I'm a little late to the game, but this movie was very well done and deserving of the critical acclaim.

Quoted: The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Page.

Faving to watch later.

Quoted: When a former weatherman (Steve Martin) decides to seek love and success in Los Angeles, he discovers that a freeway sign is giving him romantic advice. By following it, he lands in a love triangle with a British journalist (Victoria Tennant) and a free-spirited Valley Girl (Sarah Jessica Parker). Martin spent years on the screenplay, which hitches his comic genius to the tale of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

I was pleasantly surprised when I popped in this DVD and heard Chaiyya Chaiyya through the opening credits. As for the movie itself, it has some interesting plot twists but doesn't quite fit together.

Quoted: I said that this movie was like a jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing. Actually, it's worse. The pieces we have are colorful shards that form some interesting patterns as they twist and turn. But they ultimately seem to come from several different pictures altogether.
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The whole movie is like its concluding music. As the closing credits roll, we hear a rap song juxtaposed against a Bollywood ditty that I guarantee you won't be able to get out of your head. They are both good pieces of music. But they have no logical reason for being stuck together here - other than the fact that they both must have struck Spike Lee's fancy.

Quoted: A new Bollywood romance based on the premise of time travel is being seen as the Indian film industry's first serious attempt at science fiction.

Later in the article:

Quoted: Special effects include a robot teddy bear that runs errands for leading lady Priyanka Chopra.

Light and enjoyable.

Quoted: Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Faving this to watch later. It's available on Netflix.

Quoted: e-Dreams is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Wonsuk Chin, portraying the rise and fall of Kozmo.com, an online convenience store that utilized bike mesengers to deliver goods ordered online within an hour.

I am not particularly knowledgeable about sci-fi. This movie helped me appreciate the genre...

Quoted: There are a handful of 'classic' SF movies that really demonstrate why this genre has appealed to intelligent lay audiences for so long. It's not the cheesy special effects and it's not _just_ the coolness of making contact with extraterrestrial cultures.
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The best of these films -- like the low-budget and sometimes horrid original _Star Trek_ that they spawned -- succeed in using the genre and the medium to present the cinematic equivalent of a morality play. And if some of them, like this one, come across as a bit heavy-handed today, it's because they have fewer cliches to overcome now.

New York Times article on Frank Lucas and the movie.

Quoted: It was the early 1970s, and every week nearly four dozen American soldiers were returning home from Vietnam in flag-draped coffins. Frank Lucas, who ruled a crime empire in Newark and Harlem, had a plan: smuggle the purest Asian heroin he could find into New York, stashed inside those coffins.