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| Love Actually [2003] | ![Love Actually [2003]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HRGQSVJ7L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Richard Curtis
Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (152 reviews)
Sales Rank: 258
Format: Anamorphic, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 129 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582206609
ASIN: B0000UI2QY
Release Date: March 19, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 2003
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 Fantastic cast, cringeworthy film September 27, 2007
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
Looking at the cast list, you'd expect this to be one of the best films ever made!
Richard Curtis once wrote funny material - but once his brand of saccharine British Rom-Coms were embraced by the Americans (after all, we're so quaint), the conveyer belt was put into overdrive and soul-less made-for-the-money features like this were made.
I was going to give this just the one star, but I gave it 2 as the acting is superb. It's just a shame that the script is so puke inducingly awful that the film could only be loved by the same people who read Heat magazine.
Will Self commented on the awful exploitation of the 11th September terrorist attacks used to add more sickly sweet nicey niceness to the film. As soon as you hear the opening narration you realise at what level this film is on.
Come on - there are some fantastic British films out there, lets make more of those rather than this. How much longer can Richard Curtis continue to churn out the same film over and over again?
I've got nothing against romantic films, or romantic comedies - but surely they don't have to be sickly sweet and treat the audience like brainless fop-loving idiots.
In a nutshell:
Fantastic cast but the film was written purely to pander to the Brit-Rom-Com lovers on the other side of the Atlantic, the film plunders new lows in order to milk 'Love'.
 A pleasing movie...most of the time August 21, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A nice movie but with enough drawbacks that I'll pass on seeing it again or buying the DVD. I thought the episodic concept kept things moving along. Bill Nighy was extraordinary and his story was great. Colin Firth's episode was touching. B. Bob Thornton had a finely honed cameo. The Hugh Grant romance was far-fetched but charming. Liam Neeson was very sympathetic. Rowan Atkinson, as usual, nearly stole the show. The romantic feel was well maintained.
What keeps me from giving it a high mark? Hugh Grant's boyish charm, for me, is wearing thin. The Laura Linney episode did nothing for me, particularly since the way it ended struck me as arbitrary; The Thompson/Rickman episode just had too much of Thompsons' brave, quivering lips. She could have been more assertive and the episode would, for me, have been stronger. (But both Thompson and Rickman did great jobs with what they had to work with.) The precociousness of Neeson's "son" quickly got on my nerves .
Very much, for the most part, a feel-good movie, but I think the director let it get away from him too many times to be really satisfying.
 Crazy Mixed Up Film August 7, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This movie is a real jumble of odd bits of romance that should be a complete disaster, but it all comes together.
I should have loathed it, but I love it.
A must for anyone who has a lateral sense of humour.
Buy and enjoy
One of the best comedies I've seen July 4, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I consider Love Actually to be one of the funnest films I've seen, the different stories are all very funny and add up to a great film to sit down and watch over and over.
The DVD extras you get are also really good especially the deleted scenes which are great, one of which, the scene with Karen's (Emma Thompson) son's "Christmas Wish" just makes me laugh every time I see it.
If you've never seen Love Actually before, it is certainly worth watching, especially if you like Richard Curtis's other works such as Vicar of Dibley and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
A film about Love but not actually a love story May 5, 2007
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
It has been a long time since I have seen a movie so rich in character that I did not want it to end. Love Actually is not a love story, it is a story about love. Love that reinvents itself, multiplies itself, opens itself up, and even devastates.
I am sure the film has its critics who say it drips in buttery corn. But when you are able to retreat inward and let it take you over, it is impossible not to feel. It is a rare treat - a film that makes you feel. During the process I was sad and happy and relieved. I was turned on, turned off, dizzy and grounded.
I was in love one time and it reminded me of that. The power of cinema can be that amazing, it can be that intense. The title of the movie is, perhaps, meant to confuse. Yet I believe it is designed to ask. Love Actually is ... what?
Is it lust? Or a deep appreciation of the past? Can it be conquered by language or political barriers? Race? Infidelity? Age? Can it be all of the above plus more? Maybe a mingling of several?
It is rare for a film of great acting to be married to a terrific script. Yet it is something else for it to speak right to the audience; not talk at them, not try to sell them a film. Let them experience the film. Let it wash over them little by little until there is nothing more of them left.
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