Not much to recommend about this mild, laughless romantic-comedy. Baldwin and Ryan are newly wed when an old man asks to kiss the bride. Somehow, Meg Ryan and the old man exchange souls, and we have another body-swapping mix-up in the vein of BIG, VICE VERSA, 13 GOING ON 30, LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, 18 AGAIN, etc, etc... only PRELUDE TO A KISS never aspires to anything madcap or screwball, like each of those other films. Furthermore, it's not especially insightful or well-written. So the body-swap twist never amounts to much, plot-wise. We never get BIG laughs, or even 18 AGAIN laughs, for that matter. By the end of the film, I would have settled for a few VICE VERSA size chuckles. Ho-hum...
Review of Prelude to a Kiss
