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Summary: Wonderful, Wonderful
Review: This is how a romantic comedy should be done. Not that packaged dreck they keep trotting out the horrible Julia Roberts to steal our $7. Truly warm and funny, with great performances across the board. My only complaint is that, with so much going on, there were some things that were not resolved as well as I'd hoped.
A minor complaint, to be sure, because this is a wonderful film that will lighten your load and make the world just a touch nicer a place to be for a little while.
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Summary: not that great!!
Review: I really don't understand all these reviews with 5stars. I just came home from the cinema, and the movie really disseapointed me. There are far too many characters for you to care about. If they had cut the amount of stories in half, the movie might have been better. the only good reason for watching this movie are the good looking men!!!
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Summary: Audience loves it but critics don't
Review: It's funny how every critical (journo) review I've read in any newspaper, magazine or website has slandered the movie and called it cheap, repetitive and overtly sweet. Conversely, every member of the cinema audience (at least for the show I went to) came back with a smile on their lips and a slight skip in their step.I think the mark of a good movie can be that while watching it you always want just a little more and don't want the movie to end. Love Actually has that effect on the cinema audience. If you don't nitpick and try to analyse why the guy standing on the left side of the 74th scene has the 6th button of his shirt unbuttoned (i.e. just sit back and enjoy it) you will not come back dissatisfied.
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Summary: I Actually Loved This Film!
Review: What's not to love? The Director, Richard Curtis has created another winner! If you love NOTTINGHILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL as I do, you will adore this adorable, light-hearted romantic comedy. This movie is chock full of Great Britain's greatest and most adorable actors (and let's not forget about Laura Linney from USA). There are all of my favorites, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth (Mr. Darcy) along with Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Alan Rickman and Rowan Atkinson among others who star in little vignettes about love.
I love to go to movies that make me happy. Imagine going to a film and keeping a smile on your face during the entire time. Of course there were moments of deep emotions where I (as usual) shed some tears but even these instances turned into deep laughter.
I loved all the fairy tale endings in this movie. All lived happily ever after, no matter how ludicrous the story line was. Even the story involving Laura Linney was not sad to me because she was making her own choices. I plan to buy this DVD as soon as it becomes available--4 WEDDINGS AND NOTTINGHILL have been worn out and since I am a hopeless romantic who loves happily ever after endings, I know LOVE, ACTUALLY will get a lot of viewing time!
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Summary: "Actually" A Very Good Movie
Review: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2003--"Love Actually" is such a warm, witty and wonderful film that you'll be willing to forgive the many plot inconsistencies inherent with its multi-character structure. It's the story of many stories, and more specifically, it's a story about love, how it's all around us, and how it reveals itself in many different situations. Among the more interesting of the several interweaving tales are: a prime minister (Hugh Grant, charmingly funny as usual) who falls for his tea girl (an adorable Martine McCutcheon), a washed-up rocker (a deviously fun Bill Nighy) who promotes his new Christmas tune by being jaw-droppingly blunt about its horridness (though it is kinda catchy), a shy American expatriate (the heartbreaking Laura Linney) who has a not-so-secret crush on one of her coworkers (Rodrigo Santoro), a freshly-single author (Colin Firth) who takes a holiday in the country only to fall for his non-English-speaking maid (Lucia Moniz), a middle-aged housewife (Emma Thompson, in the film's most touching performance) who may or may not have to grapple with a cheating husband (Alan Rickman), and a recently widowed man (Liam Neeson) who tries to help his ten-year-old stepson (Thomas Sangster) get the girl of his dreams. There are, of course, a few other stories told here, including one that involves current It Girl Keira Knightley, but these, while interesting, don't warrant the attention of the ones I just mentioned. As well, the film bounces back from plotline to plotline and struggles to make connections between them, most egregiously in the film's all-too-convenient final scene, but it's a minor flaw that can't dampen the rest of what came before, especially the exciting climax. "Love Actually" is a feel-good anthem for the true romantics, and a pleasant, memorable holiday comedy just about anybody could enjoy.
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Summary: Loved It! (4.4 on a scale of 1 to 5)
Review: A confession: I love the pedigree of this film. Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant et al. contributed their talents to Four Weddings and A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones. I own and rewatch all of those movies.
Love Actually did not disappoint. Think Robert Altman meets Four Weddings and a Funeral. Several sweet, bittersweet, and downright painful relationships unfold during the movie. In one way or another, one story ends up being linked to another which is linked to another...
A synopsis of the stories...
Hugh Grant is the new, dashing British Prime Minister who has fallen in love with his tea lady...the tea lady lives next door to a lusty young minx who is throwing herself at her boss Alan Rickman...Rickman is intrigued but perplexed as he has been married for years to Emma Thompson (Hugh Grant's sister in the movie)...Thompson meanwhile is comforting her best friend, Liam Nesson, who has recently been widowed...Neeson is helping his 10-year old stepson deal with a crush...and so on. Somewhere in there Colin Firth shows up as a novelist in love with his Portuguese maid and two shy stand-ins to a porn movie meet and fall in love...and there is a hilarious scene stealing performance of a singer named "Billy Mack" who wants his worst ever Christmas song to make #1.
Curtis' point: Love is all around us and you just need to open your eyes to see it. But it's not all idyllic romantic love in this movie: you'll see platonic love, dying love, unrequited love and so on. Anyway it's a great Christmas movie-adults only-and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Well worth it...
Review: The beginning was a little slow but soon it starts to come together. This was a movie I brought my wife to so she could watch a movie without all the action I usually subject her to. I ended up loving this movie and would see it again.
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Summary: The Curtis pedigree wins out...Love + Politicking, too
Review: If you're on the fence about seeing 'Love Actually,' perhaps you're not aware of the pedigree of writer/director Richard Curtis. He's been the guiding hand - in one way or another - behind a remarkable string of movies...Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones' Diary (and the upcoming sequel to that). Plus, as long-time collaborator with Rowan Atkinson (the various incarnations of 'Mr. Bean' on small- and big-screens), the guy knows how to stage physcial comedy. So, it's no surprise that 'Love Actually' is (mostly) a triumph. There's a lot going on here; some of the stories are stronger than others, most notably the tale of married couple Alan Rickman (fantastic here) and Emma Thompson (who is looking more and more like Hillary Clinton with each passing day). There's a brilliant bit of serious acting here by Thompson locked away by herself in her bedroom. Grade A stuff. From a comedic standpoint, the movie is absolutely stolen by the incredibly gifted Bill Nighy as 'wrinkled rocker' Billy Mack. If you've never seen Nighy do his schtick (check out his over-the-top performance in "Still Crazy"), you're in for a real treat. Plus, his holiday rendition of "Love Is All Around" sets the tone of the movie from the opening scene. It pops up over and over and never wears thin. Hugh Grant is the surprise here as a Blair-like British PM (without the Cheri). I know he can do the serious stuff. Check out his sublime performance in 'About a Boy' - the bumbling, stuttering Grant persona is nowhere to be found. The eye-openers here are twofold: First, Grant was quoted during "Two Weeks Notice" that he "doesn't do physical comedy," and would leave that to 'Two Weeks' co-star Sandra Bullock (the best physical comedienne in film today). However, here he is shaking his booty through the halls of No. 10 Downing St. to the Pointer Sisters' "Jump." It's quite good stuff. Grant has sold himself short all these years. Second, there's this one bit of politicking that Curtis slides into the movie. Grant meets with the US President (Billy Bob Thornton is a stellar cameo in which he oligeneously combines the worst qualities of Bush and Clinton). Expected to parrot the U.S. line in a press conference, Grant ferociously blurts out a statement of independence. Curtis' less the veiled intent here: "Message to Tony Blair; don't be anyone's poodle any longer." Frankly, the only way this scene works is via Grant's ability to deliver those lines and have it seem credible. He does that. You never doubt him for an instant. For anyone with an interest in the U.S.-Britain 'special relationship,' this scene alone makes 'Love Actually' worth checking out. It'll spark hours of conversation.
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Summary: Love actually - yes it is
Review: To sum it up ABSOLUTELTY BRILLIANT, highly recommended!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Tried to hard
Review: The movie has all the things that you would want to see at X'mas, however I felt that the plot was all over the place and that they tried to hard.. Wouldnt recommend it unless it was a rainy day!
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