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This movie is the very definition of "feel good movie."

This is a true laugh a minute while still managing to be insightful film. I watched this movie with my grandparents and all three of us burst out laughing at the same times. I don't think I've ever seen a movie where that's happened before. This movie will appeal to anyone... the jokes, you just can't miss them. It's touching and mind bogglingly hilarious at the same time. And the ending is phenomonal! Watch this movie just for the ending. :) Take two hours out of your life and watch a movie that I promise you, you won't soon forget. Watch it with your family and have someone to laugh with.

I am going to see this movie over and over again, and I don't usually say that about movies. Interestingly enough, I was reading a self help book that turned out to be a complete bore the night before but which used "Defending Your Life" as an example for something they were trying to prove. I thought, hmm, that sounds interesting, but it's probably one of those old obscure movies I'll never get a chance to see. The very next day, I was in the video store just by chance, and while I was walking down the Comedy isle this movie jumped out at me. "Hey! That was the book I read about last night!" I thought. I got the movie and I wasn't dissapointed. What a way to make my day.

Thank you Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep!

---SPOILER--- don't read if you haven't seen the movie.

I was totally and completely not prepared for the ending of this movie. It made me sick to my stomach. The good guy dies, all his efforts are in vain and the bad guy is free to strike again? Ugh. I was really not expecting that. I usually don't watch these kinds of movies, I stick to the more "Patch Adams" and "Pay it Forward" type, but my family was watching it so I sat down and watched it too. What really gets me is that the bomber managed to put the bomb in the good guy's car and instead of saving everybody the good guy was the cause of the bomb going off.. Not fair. Yes, I know life's not fair, but we as moviegoers have come to expect that a movie will take you away from real life in that it will have a happy ending!! I want my happy ending... if you can't get it in real life and you can't get it from the movies, where can you get it? This movie was certainly, to say the least, *different.* For what that's worth. Definitely opened my eyes at any rate. Wouldn't recommend it though. I'm not usually one for suspense films anyway.