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Summary: Really a 3 and a Half - Great Cast and Casting
Review: I enjoyed the concept of this movie and the cast was just tremendous. I felt it was like watching the British All-Stars. All of the acting they did was outstanding, yet the movie troubled me. It was Love Actually, actually it was more about dysfunctional lives and relationships. The warm part of the movie and the potential starts and ends with those at the airport, the mosiac of loved ones hugging one another and a reference to 9-11 and the question is there still love in the world. This is the most touching piece of filmography I can remember. With Hugh Grant narrating as people come up hugging and crying and laughing, you witness love, actually. There are some great moments in this movie with some great twists. I felt the down side though was that there was too much flirtation with cheating, dicussing sex to a young child that was way beyond his years, fairly graphic shots of a couple progressively 'practicing' sex scenes for lighting. If just this last one was eliminated the movie could be a classic because there are dysfunctions in life. Yet I felt there were too many that did not really show the love, actually, shown at the airport. It is a good movie for couples to discuss relationships and where they see themselves. There are some cute relationships and some neat twists, yet it is not for everyone.
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Summary: Love Actually Review
Review: This movie was heart-warming and all-encompassing. It didn't stray to pithy romance or overly dramatic saga. It is hard to leave the theatre being a pessimist. A Must-See.
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Summary: Outstanding Movie
Review: This is one of the best romantic comedies I've ever watched. I liked that the characters had depth and the fact that even though it was a romance, the romances didn't work for every couple. Kinda like real life. The Laira Linney character and Kiera Knightley's secret (for a while) admirer were 2 of my favorites although Martine McCutcheon was my favorite. I wonder why she hasn't been in more films than she has. Anyway It's a great movie.Watch it and see for yourself.
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Summary: one of the best romantic comedies ever!!!
Review: this is quite possibly my favorite romantic comedy ever. this movie starts off with a bang and continues that way throughout the entire movie! it focuses on multiple people and never loses its edge throughout the entire romp. instead of losing us in the multiple characters, they are all rich and developed to their fullest. hugh grant plays a loveable (as always) english prime minister who finds himself pining over one of his assistants. colin firth plays the best role i have ever seen him in! he is absolutely great in this movie. he plays a writer who has just lost his love. into his life steps a housekeeper who can't even speak his language. the on-screen chemistry between these two is outstanding as they show how love crosses even language barriers. liam neeson's character is my personal favorite in this movie. he plays a character whose wife has just died. he is left alone with his step-son as they try to cope with this loss. liam and his counterpart (wonderfully played by thomas sangster) move throughout this movie with a grace and charm that is hard to find in modern movie cinema. liam tries to teach sam about love and winning a girl. some of their parts actually brought tears to my eyes (which rarely happens). they teach how a step-son and step-father can love each other and help each other through the hardships of life. other great turns in this movie include emma thompson as a wife starving for the love of her husband, sienna guillory as the housekeeper to colin's writer, bill nighy as an aged rockstar trying to make a comeback, and keira knightly as a recently married young woman. if this movie doesn't cause you to feel something, then i would have to believe that you are dead inside. if you are looking for a wonderful look at how love actually exists, look no further!!!
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Summary: A fairy tale?
Review: Most fairy tales are meant to mirror the truth. They take place in unrealistic locales that involve mythical creatures and heavenly maidens, yet the actions of the characters and the reprecussions are usually as realistic and down to earth. 'Love Actually' is a movie about realistic people in present day settings, but their actions and the things that happen to them range from unusual at best to absurd at worst. This cheapens the film and the title. Add a few overused cliches from other movies - the bumbling Hugh Grant character, the "cute adult" child character, etc. and you get a mildly amusing movie that's worth a rental, not more. Even the supposedly sharp and biting parody of the Lewinsky scandal is pathetic. The only redeeming bit was the department store salesman (Rowan Atkinson). I liked Bridget Jones but this movie - it's all been done before, actually.
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Summary: Loved It, Actually
Review: Since I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies, I probably would not have been very interested in seeing Love Actually, if not for the fact that it was written and directed by the genius behind Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Notting Hill (which I only consented to see based on my appreciation of Four Weddings and which I was surprised to have enjoyed). But knowing this, I did actively seek it out at my neighborhood multiplex, and I was glad I did. Love Actually is a fine film, and I recommend you see it. It does follow the format for a basic romantic comedy, but it does so with more sensitivity and depth than most movies in that genre. While much of the movie is laugh-out-loud funny, it also has quite a few heavy moments (think the poem read during the funeral scene in Four Weddings) and complications that remind you that relationships succeed or fail for a variety of reasons, few of which are ever generic or obvious. None of the story lines are simple boy gets girl or girl doesn't get boy sort of situations. Almost all of the many distinct, intertwined characters and story lines were crucial to the movie. Though I can think of one story line that could have been dropped without losing too much, only one character's story really hurt the movie (it's not one of the central story lines though, so my disappointment with it is proportional with the screen time it was allotted). In all, I think you'll find that at least an hour and fifty minutes of the two-hour movie will have been time well spent. Now I can't wait for The Edge of Reason! Since Colin Firth played Bridget's love interest in Bridget Jones's Diary, I'm particularly interested in seeing how they handle the fact that Colin Firth, the actor, has such an important part in the sequel. He's central to the funniest scene in the book.
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Summary: Wonderful movie!
Review: I absolutely loved this movie, which is strange because I normally don't go for romantic comedies. However, this movie more than holds up.
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Summary: Wonderful, Feel Good Movie
Review: First of all, before I rave about this movie I will say that it is a definite chick flick. It is a romantic comedy geared towards females. Not to say that men won't enjoy it, because some will, I'm just saying that it is a chick flick. With that aside, this is like no other movie that I have seen. Intertwining all the different relationship plots was very well done without losing me, or boring me at any point during the movie. I got a bit misty during at least 3 parts of the movie. The acting is wonderful. What more can I say about an all-star cast. Some of the most popular actors of this time are in this movie (i.e. Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kiera Knightly, Colin Firth, etc..). Upon reading an earlier review about the rating of the movie, obviously the movie is rated R for the same reasons other movies in this genre are rated R. I don't think anyone goes into an R rated movie not expecting to see or hear anything that would gain the movie an R rating. Directly after seeing the movie, I got the soundtrack. Some individual said something about the soundtrack and how it's too much pop or something... Let's see... a romantic, feel-good, comedy. Shouldn't it have romantic, feel-good music? There's nothing wrong with that. The soundtrack has as many popular artists as the movie has popular actors. Every song in the movie fits with the mood the director was trying to convey. Anyway, it's a wonderful, unique movie. Every relationship depicted in this movie is special in it's own way. It's emotional. It's lyrical. It's comical. Everything a good movie should be.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: What a great movie! My adult daughter and I went to see it and almost didn't because she considered it a "chick flick", but humored her mother. Both of us were delighted with this movie. This is one of the few movies that I have seen lately that I would actually buy. Not for small children, as there are some pretty hot scenes, but a wonderful movie for adults. Shows you that love is alive and well in all it's many fabulous forms.
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Summary: Joy, warmth, caring, and, yes, love, actually
Review: My wife took me to this movie on the basis of "We need a night out," and "There's nothing else in the theaters." The trailers had made some of the moments in this movie look horribly embarassing to watch, so I was NOT eager. The movie, however, was a delightful surprise, full of good people trying to deal with life's unpredictability and find the time to show each other that they care, and deeply. There are funny moments galore, and almost any of the major performances in this film are Oscar-level material. And I wasn't embarassed a bit about any of it. There are three relationships that turned it into a "Boy am I glad I saw this" film. Colin Firth as Jamie Bennett and the Portuguese girl he falls in love with without ever being able to exchange a word because he doesn't speak Portuguese and she doesn't speak english, Liam Neeson as the widower and his son who are each trying to deal with the loss and find new path in life, while the son chases a girl who apparently doesn't even notice he's alive, and Hugh Grant, as the Prime Minister, finding love in a place he'd never thought to look. I'd give it five stars, except that the soundtrack features some of the most G_d-awful slop pop on the planet, very poor as background music when compared against Craig Armstrong's love themes. Armstrong's work is, in my opinion, some of the most beautiful music ever composed, and my best composers company includes Bach and Beethoven. Between the acting and Craig Armstrong, this one's a keeper.
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