If this is England let's all become asylum seekers

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2001)

Attention all those of a scientific bent. Two new instruments (the vacuometer and the salometer)have been invented AS WE SPEAK, precisely to measure the depth of shallowness and vacuity throughout this film. Unfortunately both instruments needed instant recalibration since both stopped well before they had plumbed the bottom of this truly awful movie.
Since when does it snow in London (or was it set in Inverness?) at Christmas or any other time? Since when has the view of the british been typified as the smart frothily empty world of publishing (since the last Richard Curtis inspired film do I hear you say?)? Since when does an "English rose with attitude" get protrayed by an American actress (however good her voice coach made her)?
This was a completely awful film, so it had to contain Lord Archer (a month before his perjury trial )and the pompadour of pomposity Salman Rushdie. Come back Women's Realm, all is forgiven.