[The News Bot]

Reviewed by Cas Harlow, 15th October 2009
Roxanne is a lightweight romantic comedy with a slightly darker subject matter about self-respect, self-confidence and the twisted, often hurtful path of love. Simple, on the face of it, it tries to smooth over some interesting relationship complications – and for the most part succeeds – through excellent use of Steve Martin’s trademark wit, energy and zest. During his high period, this was one of his more successful offerings, and you could probably forgive many of its misgivings in favour of its happy, supposedly feel-good tale. On Region Free UK Blu-ray, the video and audio are a little lacklustre – but perhaps that is only to be expected. The extras are similarly disappointing in that there are none, but that probably will not be of much consequence to fans who simply feel the need to have this in their collection. If you like Steve Martin, then you probably can do a lot worse than this – especially after some of his more recent efforts. Enjoyable fun, even if it occasionally laughs in the face of some quite serious relationship dilemma subject-matter.
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[Pecker]

How long before we get a Blu-ray Disc version of Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac?

That's a superb film, and one of which I always think when reminded of Steve Martin's Roxanne.

Steve W