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Release Date: 27 April, 2004 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $11.24 You SAVE: $3.74! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
Love Actually (Widescreen Edition) Reviews
A+++++ FUN MOVIE.....
I was checking down the list and saw most people like the Movie and did'nt take it to serious, Then i read the review from MOTHER HEN who said there was incomprehensible scenes... THIS IS A MOVIE- NOT REAL LIFE, instead of Picking at every scene Why did'nt you jump Click STOP and that would been the End of it..But you hated the film that much, You watch it til the End Why??? Just like Josephll "Josephll All he/she did was complain about the movie, WHY did they sit through Whole film If it was that bad??? Then Both leave a Huge Feedback about it?? If i hate a Film i would stay away from It..Not waste my good time writing a review on it.?? If you ain't seen It Yet.. Well go and see It and See this Movie, because end of the day it a MOVIE NOT REAL LIFE...
Good acting, enjoyable for the most part
What's most enjoyable about Love Actually, besides the terrific scoring (inventive use of pop songs to bridge from one story to the next) is the inspired casting. Along with wonderful comic bits from Bill Nighy and the actor playing Colin (those two alone were worth the price of admission), several gifted actors do themselves proud. Case in point: Sarah, hopelessly in love with a co-worker and emotionally strangled by caring for her brain-damaged brother, could have been a bathetic mess in the hands of anyone less talented than Laura Linney. I was also impressed with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, totally believable as a married-with-children couple who deal with each other comfortably on an everyday basis, but who are thrown for an emotional loop over an office romance. And Colin Firth (okay, I do have a teeny crush on this guy and am not totally reliable as a critic!) is the only actor I know who could convincingly sell the writer-loves-housemaid story.
What's less satisfying is the director's overreliance on his stock-in-trade story resolutions. Curtis always has to include a mad dash for the airport to get two characters together -- in this movie, there are TWO mad dashes -- and Prince Charming must always rescue Cinderella from a drab life with a dramatic flourish (in this case, two Princes, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant). Curtis uses his gimmicks with charm and skill, but they still feel gimmicky and one longs for more surprises.
Two other minor carps: (1) I am willing to suspend disbelief long enough to pretend that an 11 year old boy can learn to play the drums expertly in two weeks, but I refuse to accept that on the very night of the big show, he's still in his room learning the basics. (2) If Hugh Grant is cast as a P.M. in his late 40's or early 50's, for heaven's sake put a little gray at his temples or something. Grant looks 25 here, negating the intended older man/younger woman aspect of his relationship with Natalie and rendering Emma Thompson's greeting of her "big brother" late in the movie a little silly.
One final comment, not on the movie itself but about some of the reactions to it: I'm bemused by the postings that claim Curtis' casual use of interracial couplings represents some sort of P.C. gone amok. This demonstrates a complete ignorance of the British sensibility on race. Class differences are everything in British culture, NOT the black-white divide as is the case in America.
Those who see a "left-wing agenda" in a totally unpolitical movie like Love Actually could vastly benefit from learning something of other cultures and mores, as well as checking their own biases in the mirror.
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