Really rather rubbish, actually

Rating: 3/10 (11 December 2003)

Half way through this collection of every Richard Curtis joke/set-up he's ever written (a quirky wedding and a funeral in the first five minutes, a female vicar, Rowan Atkinson adding nothing as usual), they play a track by Dido. And it occurred to me that this is a very 'Dido' kind of film; Bland, uninspiring, repetative; potentially interesting, but ultimately too irritating to care about.
All the characters could be played by Hugh Grant (even the female ones) and eveyone talks in dithering speeches, like the final 'I think I love you...' spiel from 'Four Weddings...'
And for a film which starts by making us contemplate, once more, the terrible events of 11th September (as we say in Britain), the ending shows a complete lack of regard for airport security!