Love Actually

Pros: Cute, Light, some good performances
Cons: Cute, Light, some people will hate it

Okay, some things just need to be said. And someone has to say them. I nominate me. So here’s the thing. Love Actually is just a really stupid, lame, ridiculous movie title. It matters not one bit whether the movie is horrible or brilliant ...

Pros: Interesting look at all the different sorts of love out there in the world.
Cons: All of the stories are brief and simple, which really drags the film down.

I found myself pleasantly surprised when I saw this rather jumbled tangle of a film about friends, families, and love. I had expected something that was silly, and a bit of a farce, not something that was ranging through the entire spectrum of human ...

Pros: Firth, Moniz, Atkinson, Thornton
Cons: Aimless, unfocused, and predictable

"Love Actually" is an ambitious film that betrays its ambition early. The movie loses its way when an aging British rock singer named Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) is in the studio, reworking the Troggs' classic, "Love Is All Around" with a holiday spin. Even ...

Pros: Great casting, great music, great chemistry...
Cons: Too many story lines - I wanted separate movies for each!!!

Preamble Hot men. Gorgeous, but non-threatening women. Hormones. Relationships. A wedding. Christmas. Bitchin' music. My gawd! Could you ask for a more perfect movie?! The Story This is gonna be difficult to explain. The st ...

Pros: Thompson, Rickman, Firth, Neeson, Sangster; a few very funny moments
Cons: Convoluted narrative technique; underdeveloped characters and storylines; frequent crass and sophomoric tone

My husband and I both love British comedy. I also enjoy romantic comedy, and so does he, though of course he doesn't admit it often! We have a host of favorite actors from the UK, and when we recently discovered that almost all of them were in ...

Pros: All you need is love.
Cons: You don't need the boobs or the fat jokes, but oh well, they be there.

My first thought when I read about Love Actually was "You've got to be kidding." Eight love stories all at once. I say, I say, it just ain't possible. Then finally, I decided to take the plunge. Smart move, self. There is no secret surprise ...

Pros: cute, hilarious, optimistic, Bill Nighy
Cons: Christmas-oriented (Bah Humbug!), a little sappy

Most romantic comedies are boring because they are so simple. The typical rom-com expects viewers to care about the fate of one special couple that gets treated as if they are the only two people in the universe worth worrying about. The most ...

Pros: Some of the performances... Certain fleeting moments
Cons: Read the review...

Actually, there is a level on which Richard Curtis's feature directing debut is quite awful. It's that superficial level of cinema where the little things play -- little things like direction, photography, pacing, character development, editing and often ...

Pros: Martin Freeman, Neeson and stepson, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant
Cons: Proves that Richard Curtis is not untouchable

Being a fan of Richard Curtis' screenplays ("Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Notting Hill", the criminally-underseen "The Tall Guy"), you'd think I'd have raced to the theatre to catch his directorial debut, "Love Actually". But there was something ...

Pros: There's no denying the charm this film gives off
Cons: Too many loose ends in this film

Whenever we think of Christmas films, the first film that pops up into my head is Frank Capra's classic film, It's a Wonderful Life. Ever since that film, no film has been able to compete against it, with the exception of Miracle on 34th ...

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There are two things I don’t do around epinions very often - write movie reviews or hand anything a five star rating. Underneath my many layers of crustiness, my angry anti-government, pissed off taxpayer persona lies an insane romantic, easily ...

Pros: Excellent Stories, Comedic Tone, & Performances from British Cast.
Cons: Not Enough Billy Bob, Messy & Inconsistent Script, Bad Stories, & Mediocre Direction.

If there’s one person who can make a romantic-comedy interesting, it’s British screenwriter Richard Curtis. Already stemming from successful screenplays for films like “Four Weddings & a Funeral”, “Notting Hill” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary” Curtis decide ...

Pros: Superbly acted, lighthearted theme.
Cons: Somewhat disjoined because of the plot; too many sub-plots going on.

I am an incurable romantic, a voyeur of sorts in the window of love with a weakness for the quixotic interplay between humans; it is unique among God’s creations, this human love, thing. And so it is that I found myself hopeless drawn to Love ...

Pros: Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Thomas Sangster, and a couple of body doubles :)
Cons: Hugh Grant (though funny, bumbling, and charming as usual) as the Prime Minister of England?

- not that it matters, actually This lengthy movie review is something of a mess – it might be difficult to follow what’s been written here, and you may find yourself lost for long stretches. This style, actually, is by design of the author, ...

Pros: Some nice eye candy; Bill Nighy is moderately funny
Cons: Another cliche-heavy and thoroughly boring Curtis script

Yes, it’s back, the third instalment in the never-popular “Drunken Review” series. It’s pretty simple: me get drunk, me see film, me write about film. The point? Other than a cool way to destroy my liver, there isn’t one. It’s ...