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Notting Hill (Collector's Edition)

Notting Hill (Collector's Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A perfect movie
Review: We all have dreams to meet movie stars even if that's gonna be for a few seconds only.William (Hugh Grant)not only meets a movie star Anna (Julia Roberts)but his charm actually gets her to fall in love with him. So far,it is the best romantic movie I have ever seen.The perfect performance of Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant and others too will trick you as they definitely turn this fairy tale story into a 'possible'true life story.The comedy and the music for this movie I think it is perfect too and with the quality picture and sounds thanks to DVD, this movie is just perfect.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A true romantic.
Review: This is a great movie.Both characters has great chemistry and Julia Roberts is stunning. You won't be disappointed!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Behold, The Grandaddy of ALL Contemporary Romantic Comedies!
Review: This movie clearly exemplifies why Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts have been at the top of their game over the last decade or so. It's not just a chick flick-- guys can get into it too!! It's an intelligent film with wonderful character development and lots of light-hearted fun as these two actors are always good at pulling off. I really want to see this pair together again someday!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Enchanting
Review: Notting Hill is a stunning romantic comedy that you can watch many times over. Julia Roberts is perfect as Anna Scott, the charming, gorgeous celebrity who encounters Hugh Grant's character, William Thacker. Comic relief is provided by both charismatic actors, as well as William's roommate, Spike. The story flows smoothly without being bogged down in unecessary scenes, such as flashbacks or the like. The plot is solid and filled with warmth, heart and extreme wit that is well built upon by the wonderful cast.

The DVD version is wonderful for any fan with several funny deleted scenes, insightful commentaries and an even a map of the charming English area of Notting Hill.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A real Charmer
Review: I usually don't watch romantic comedies (I have yet still to see "When Harry Met Sally") but "Notting Hill" surprised me. It stars two well oiled veterans of the genre, Hugh Grant (William Thacker) and Julia Roberts (Anna Scott), as chance lovers who meet in Grant's book store. From there they forge, or at least try, a relationship amid Julia Robert's star status a a world famous movie star. they go on again, off again, but screenwriter Richard Curtis has you hoping with all your might that they might become a permanent couple someday. But that is easier said than done, as Roberts at times is more worried about her career, and Grant is at times befuddled with the love he's found. This all leads to an emotionally wrenching ending when Grant and Roberts are at their most nuanced onscreen.

But, this is a comedy right, and most of the relief from the love story comes from Ryes Ifans, who plays Grants' slacker roommate, and finds Roberts naked in the bathtub among other things. It also should be said that a story like this in real life would probably never happen, and the movie loses points on realism, but the storytelling is so fluid and the acting so nuanced, you will not mind.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: fantacular
Review: In some way, you will relate to this movie. It's "an absolute classic".

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best Romantic Comedy ever...
Review: Simply the best romantic romedy ever made... Julia Robert is amazing...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DVD
Review: Brings back memories of my trip to London. Loved this movie so much I had to purchase it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: you've seen one you've seen them all
Review: Any movie with Hugh Grant in it is half way decent, so I guess I have to say the same for the movie. Grant plays his hopelessly in love character to the core, and Julia Roberts plays her role perfectly since she basically is who she plays. There are some touching moments in the film, and a few funny ones as well, but it doesn't strike a chord. Perhaps because the plot is too much like other romantic comedies, or maybe it's Grant's vulgar roommate "Spike", who draws attention away from the story. But if you like typical romantic comedies, then you might as well see this one too.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Soporific
Review: Back in the days before his cad performance in "Bridget Jones' Diary" and his dead-on showing in "About a Boy," Hugh Grant was known for a sort of mumbling, genial diffidence and for his tousled locks. He'd stammer a line or two, look out from under a waft of carefully casual hair... and a series of romantic comedies' heroines fell for his charms.

By the time "Notting Hill" was made, that routine had grown awfully, awfully tired.

It's inevitable that Grant eventually got paired with Julia Roberts, isn't it? For a while there, if you had a "meet cute" sort of a romantic movie, they were your choices. Oddly enough they have no chemistry together here. The two of them, I swear, sleepwalk through this entire relationship. Their lines are delivered with a sort of dead weight behind them that you've never sat through before. When they meet, when they're infatuated, when they argue... it's all so sedated you feel like shaking someone. Seriously -- the seduction scene(s) in this movie are an tiring to witness as can be. Even the characters seem to know it: Julia considers the fuzz on other men's behinds in the midst of being seduced, here, and she does so in a sort of muffled trance. Yawn.

Not that there isn't some stuff here to like, if you happen to see it on cable. The Greek chorus of odd friends for the main character is somewhat more fun than in the other 15 romantic comedies you've seen lately. (Well, Julia does not receive her allotted one [1] gay male confidant, but Hugh's troupe makes out okay.) The sense that the movie's set in a local neighborhood -- a sort of everyperson's-life-as-a-movie-set thing -- has its charms, though aside from a couple of "time passing" transitional scenes, the movie doesn't have that idea on its mind much. I guess the title reflects it, too, but it's not what you'd call a theme, even.

But jeez, for a romantic comedy, this had no chemistry and essentially nothing funny from either of the main characters. The closest thing to a smile from them was Julia's movie star trying to memorize lines for an awful action adventure movie. The supporting roles have their moments, but how are you supposed to stay awake for the movie when the main characters are barely holding on themselves? I ask you.

Grant, meanwhile, obviously reacted to this by heading off to "Bridget Jones" and "About a Boy." He woke himself up.


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