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Love Actually
Cast: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney
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Abstract: Everywhere you look, love is causing chaos. From the bachelor Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who, on his first day at 10 Downing Street, falls in love with the girl who brings him his tea, to a hopeless sandwich delivery guy who doesn't think he has a chance with the girls in the U.K., so he heads for Wisconsin. From aging rock stars, to a stony headmistress, to a monolingual Portuguese housemaid--love arrives in many forms, shapes and sizes. Here, ten separate--but intertwining--stories of love all lead up to a big climax on Christmas Eve, proving that love is the driving force in all of these people's lives.
Teetering on the edge, almost sickly sweet, but somehow the movie kept me from going over that edge from where there is no recovery.
Gratuitous nudity it may contain, but how else are we going to get our guys to go see this with us?
Hugh Grant mesmerizes, again. How does he continue to make movies like this and it never gets old for me? Liam Neeson gives a touching performance, while little-known Andrew Lincoln tugs hard at them heart strings.
Kiera Knightley is again annoyingly luminous and beautiful, a shining reminder of how unjust the world is. Martine McCutcheon gives a reasonably believable performance as a bumbling charmer, which makes her perfect to star opposite the always delectable Hugh Grant.
And of course, Colin Firth takes the cake again.
Get this DVD, it's something you and your Girlfriends can gather for and the men/boys won't run away too far.
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Credit: Universal Studios
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I found it a cute ensemble romantic-comedy movie, and possibly the mother of all feel-good movies.
A good analogy for this movie: You're feeling weak and unenergetic, so you eat a Snickers bar, which gives you a nice boost of energy, but only for a short time, which is fine, nothing wrong with that. However if you had wanted to sustain your energy level, you would have done better with a nice wholesome plate of Spaghetti Surprise. The SS would have taken a little longer to kick in, but would have had a more lasting effect.
I admit to walking out of the movie with a tingly sense of well-being and positivism, but was momentarily distracted when, in walking by the Shoe Warehouse, I noted that with a purchase of a pair of shoes, a second pair (of equal or lesser value) was 50% off. When I resumed walking, my new-found tingles had mysteriously dissipated, and I forgot for a second which movie I had just viewed.
Smart-ass comments aside, I did enjoy the movie. It was a series of vignettes about relationships. Most were cute and funny, but a few annoyed me:
The Hugh Grant as Prime Minister bit - part of the new trend of movies showing presidents/prime ministers in romantic comedy roles. Vaguely annoying because the whole "hook" of the piece was the incongruousness of such a powerful man being charmed by the simple wiles of a girl-next-door serving wench. Hugh Grant is genuinely charming though.
The precocious child vignette was the true barf-a-rama piece of the film. Who, I ask you, WHO?!?! finds it charming to hear clever grown-up wisdom and turns-of-phrase emitting from the mouth of some prepubescent little punk? With the humour of the situation being derived wholly from that juxaposition?
My favourite piece was the Colin Firth one - 60% because he's so darned cute, the other 40% because the piece was fun.
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