Well, Sprocket, I just enjoyed reading that so much! I have seen this movie many times, it is a favourite; yet it is so interesting to see it through someone else's eyes, and, am I right, you have just viewed this for the first time?

A Snickers bar, huh? LOL! I love that whole passage.

The references to Beauty and the Beast and A Midsummer's Night Dream are so right, although I had never considered that before. You put words to so many things I have felt about this movie but am too inarticulate to be able to express them. Like this:

...Moonstruck is a dreaming; its plot a wispy, fleeting shadow play of semi-articulated nigglings, that moves between scenes of varying import without nay a care in the world!

Or this:

It may sound glib, but I was genuinely impressed by Nic’s ability to maintain his eyes like this across the film… I feel his ability to continue an expression or an action across a film, like a heraldic tag that follows a character, is what helps him create such strong archetypes.

And this passage is truly superb, makes me want to read Cheever too :

Those magical nights where the moon is white and fat in the sky and lovers are tugged towards each other as in A Midsummer Nights Dream, are the nights Moonstruck wishes to capture. Since this is an elegantly written film, tactfully directed, with two great leading performances, there are moments in the film that succeed in transporting us to such a night; “a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.”

I am so glad you mentioned the grandfather, I wait for his scenes in the movie with great anticipation and watch them with joy!

It is not your usual romantic comedy, that is true. I remember when I first saw it, way back when it was new, thinking that everyone was was rather odd and over the top. I didn't realize the operatic motif then. But I loved it anyway, in a way that romantic movies now do not inspire my love. Movies were better then.