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Summary: Bored, actually
Review: I think that if this movie had been made with only American actors and taken place in America the critics would have slammed it as just more Yankee treacle. Does giving these sitcom-ish characters accents elevate this flick to classic status? I think not.It is a lightweight, forgettable, date film. Rent it.
Rating: 
Summary: Very forgettable snack of a movie.
Review: I found this movie very disappointing. It tries so hard to be cute and funny, stuffing over 5 different love stories into one short movie. What we get is a set of underdeveloped one dimensional characters, underdeveloped plot lines, and ultimately a very forgettable romanitc comedy. Frankly, I felt it was a waste of time and money. The only redeeming parts were Colin Firth's appearance (although he was on camera far too little) and the cute love story with the little elementary aged boy and his crush. Some stories that needed development were left to shrivel up. All in all, it is a snack of a film, like eating one M&M...sweet but woefully unsatisfying.
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Summary: This is a great movie actually
Review: Love Actually is a brilliant film, one of my favorites of 2003. It never fails to leave me smiling, no matter how many times I watch it. It's an energetic, emotional, and funny film, a true romantic masterpiece if there ever was one. Richard Curtis, the genius behind the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, and Four Weddings and a Funeral, flawlessly combines 10 wonderful interwining stories, some better than others, but all great. Luckily, the better stories get more screentime and are more fully developed. It all ends quite happily, in one perfect sequence after another. He has assembled an amazing cast, all perfect in their roles, bringing the fantastic script to life. Perhaps 10 different stories is a bit much for some people, but I thought it was wonderfully done. Many people have also expressed their utter disgust at the sex and nudity in the film. Guess what? The film is R-rated for a reason, and the reasons are given under the rating so people won't go into a film and complain about the sexual content. However, as usual, someone always manages to find a reason to whine. It goes to show how close-minded most people are, which is rather tragic considering we're in the 21st Century. Get over it! It's a shame that so many people might not get to see such a terrific film, because of a few scenes with nudity. Tragic, really. As Richard Curtis points out in the commentary, the original cut of the film ran at over 3 and a half hours (a version I am dying to see since even at 2 hrs and 10 mins, I felt the film was too short). However, as an added bonus on an otherwise bare-bones DVD, we get 40 minutes of those deleted scenes with a Richard Curtis introduction. I would have preferred the cut material incorporated back into the film as a viewing option, but for now, this is good enough. Hopefully, a more complete DVD will be released soon. Love Actually is a wonderfully entertaining, emotional, and feel-good film. Everyone will relate to one story or another. As the movie goes to prove, Love Really Is All Around Us, and it's a fabulous feeling indeed. If this movie doesn't leave you smiling, then perhaps nothing will.
Rating: 
Summary: Infactuation, Actually
Review: Umm, this isn't love; this is lust and infactuation. None of these people know eachother well enough to have a true love between them. True love takes getting to know who a person really is not falling in love with some fantasy of what we think the person might be or what we want them to be. Get real!
The thing about this kinda "love" is it always falls apart, actually.
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Summary: Quantity over Quality...
Review: The fact is, Love Actually gives viewers quite a few love stories, and it doesn't give the viewer time to connect. What is romantic? Romantic is seeing a couple fall in love, not 3035903509295208 couples talk about love. By the time the viewer may feel any connection to a character, a new story starts and the viewer is lost. I didn't pull one name out of this film and didn't get to connect with one character. Also, the pacing in this film is horrible. Right when a story might seem interesting, a new one starts and a new character is introduced. Love Actually tries to do too many things in a short time. The directing isn't that good and it's only saving grace is Hugh Grant. Also, a lot of the leads have no chemistry whatsoever. They just picked some top-notch stars and expected love. Sorry, but it just doesn't work that way...
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Summary: Love, actually, exists
Review: This movie comes as advertised---it's a feel-good movie about love and the fact that is is "all around" wherever you look, not just in the movies or in novels. It's one of those movies that has about 10 different storylines going on in a large community of people, loosely connected to one another. Each story is unique and entertaining. The movie is long...over two hours, but if you like it, there's more than a half hour of deleted scenes, with director commentary, provided on the DVD version. I watched the whole thing. There is a great cast in this movie and the message is very simple...love exists if you just look around you and are willing to see it. This movie leaves you with the feeling that you are going to fall in love tomorrow!
Rating:
Summary: good cast,boring storyline
Review: The cast was good,but the acting and storyline was dry.At times I dozed off to sleep or would hit the VCR's fast forward button to find a good scene.If this is suppose to be a comedy it didn't make me laugh.If a future version of this movie is to be made I would urge the writers to make this movie a good one.
Rating:
Summary: The bar has been lowered
Review: Apparently, this script was written in hieroglyphics by a smarmy band of illiterate Appalachian ten year olds who were at the time going through withdrawal from PCP addiction. The symbols were then coated in nacho cheese and interpreted by Dr. Phil and a team of traveling Avon saleswomen in a Native American sweathouse, where Phil sweated and chanted in a skimpy loincloth. Voila!
The results are amazingly terrible. You'd think that somemone with severe ADD (myself) would enjoy a senseless montage of snuggly goodness with no developed plot or characters, but it was simply too much for my feeble, overloaded brain. When the movie started introducing a boatload of characters with seemingly unconnected lives, I braced myself for a thrilling Tarantino-esque ending that would bring it all together. Wrong! The characters don't just seem unconnected, they are! One of them is a creep who wants to make love to his best buddy's wife, and hides it by being mean. Oh, the humanity! Another is a sensitive young chimpanzee child who makes Stallone's kid in "Over the Top" look like someone really tough.....like Stallone. Anyways, the kid plays the drums to woo a musical genius ten year old girl who is introduced in the last five minutes. Yowza. Liam Neeson cries, his wife died. A British novelist proposes to a Portuguese scullery girl he can't talk to, she has a tattoo on the small of her back. Pow! Zap! Boom! Kablam! Two soft porn actors talk about traffic and fall in love. Hugh Grant charms as a sexed up Tony Blair with a thing for chubby ladies. In the beginning some omniscient narrator creep talks about "The Terrorist attacks of 9/11." These schmucks are really trying hard. Help me!!!!!! This is the romantic comedy equivalent of MTV's "Total Request Live," a pleasant bombardment with useless words and images. So if you don't make the mistake of treating it like a movie, which I did, you should be all right.
Rating:
Summary: DON'T see this movie, you will regret it
Review: This movie deserves 0 stars and only brief mention, to persuade you against seeing it. It is the most shallow, uninteresting, pretentious piece of crap I think I've ever seen.
Rating:
Summary: Love Actually
Review: Ghastly vomit enducing pseudo middle class fluff. A bad sterotype on British people being such twits: let me tell you your more likely to see Hayleys Comet close up, than London snowing.
Hugh Grant is not a english gentlemen, he is a shallow floppy haired creep!
The House Of A Thousand Corpses is less unpleaseant than this!
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