Freaking Awesome!!

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2003)

WOW! I just saw a sneak preview with some friends, and we all came out with HUGE smiles on our faces. The only comparisons we could come up with were Bridget Jones and About A Boy, not because plots were similar (or because there were overlapping cast members) but because it just had that smile-continuously-because-we-Brits-are-here-to-make-you-laugh feel. The nine almost unconnected story lines managed to mesh together perfectly, and the cast was UNBELIEVABLE! Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth (AKA sexiest man alive) in one movie?!?! Have I died and gone to cinema Heaven? Seldom does a cast this phenomenal actually appear in a good movie...star studded casts are too often seen as a valid excuse for shoddily made movies. This was certainly an exception to that rule!! The cinematography was excellent--the emphasis on facial expressions was genius,--the music was, again, smile inducing, and the dialogue made every character real and relatable. Talk about becoming emotionally invested!! As corny as this may sound: I laughed, I cried, and I actually CARED! Simply put, a BRILLIANT movie! (PS- Bill Nighy is a genius and I LOVE him!!)