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5.0 out of 5 stars
My favourite movie of the past couple of years,
By Bookaholic "romancequeen" (Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love Actually (Widescreen) (DVD)
I thought love actually was a refreshing take on the typical romantic comedy. It's funny, heartwarming without falling into typical romantic comedy fluff. Not all of the endings were happy, some of the meetings were really unusual and some conclusions were a little unbelieveable, but it just made the story better. And, the soundtrack is amazing. I definitely recommend it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Love Actually (Widescreen) (DVD)
What a great feel good movie from the people who produced Notting Hill and Bridget Jones. The cast may not be so well known in the US but they are really good, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth and Liam Neeson to name just a few.Some of the scenarios are a little wierd like the couple of reserved tongue tied body doubles who spend all day in the nude together simulating sex and a single British Prime Minister (doesn't happen). All together the film covers eight couples in the throws of finding love, which keeps the movie interesting and fresh paced. The genius of the film is in the way the little agonies and ecstacies of love are portrayed, which is so real it takes you beyond any feeling of contrivance in the story lines. You can see yourself and feel agonies of old come back to haunt you as this movie unfolds. The missed chance, the verbal stumblng, blowing the main chance by doing too much or worse doing too little or nothing. This is not the human condition type of great soul searing agony, in this movie everything you see happens every day in every country and at sometime in our lives to all of us. Within the overall feel good factor there are some really good performances, Neesom dealing with the death of his wife and bonding with his step son in particular stands out in the memory. The feel good comes from the fact that everyone, or nearly everyone gets their woman or man. The same sadly can not be said for reality, but watching the movie you conveniently forget and feel great.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disapointing,
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This review is from: Love Actually (Widescreen) (DVD)
I like romantic comedies, so I thought this film would be just the ticket, well I was wrong.There are a few (and I mean a few) funny moments, but they are interspersed with too many ordinary & unfunny will-they-or-won't-they typical scenarios and dialogue that we've seen a million times before. Some of the deleted scenes are actually funnier than the movie itself! If only they had included these scenes and had, well, a LOT more humour, then it would be a great comedy film. As for the romance - erm - very weak quite frankly. The film flits between different 'romances' but the chemistry between the actors on screen is zero. Its all very predictable, OF COURSE certain people get together at the end, yawn. And what was with that waste-of-space storyline of the man who loved the black man's wife, that wasn't finished, nothing happened with it! I've given it 2 stars not 1 because of the (albeit sparse) funny scenes.
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