Take it for what it is

Rating: 9/10 (24 November 2003)

This is a chick flick pure and simple, but I think guys can enjoy it too, provided they are somewhat of a romantic and at least have a significant other that you love and care about.
***SPOILERS BELOW***
First of all, it is mostly unrealistic, although not all stories turn out for the better, take Laura Linney's and Emma Thompson's for example. I think that's one of the good points about this movie, ever story doesn't turn out perfectly in the end. There is something here to appeal to everyone. Some love-at-first-sight romance (Colin Firth), some young puppy love (Liam Neeson's character's son), a wedding (Keira Knightley), a best-man/best-friend who loves the bride, an almost affair (Emma Thompson), platonic love (character: Billy Mack), an unrealistic but hilarious bit about and English guy (character: Colin Frisell), who heads to America looking for sex/love, and a funny bit about two sex-doubles in meet on the set of a movie and get married shortly after, and a charming story about the prime-minister (Hugh Grant) who falls in love with his "catering manager". Personally I thought this was the best story and I wish there was more of it. Martine McCutcheon was HOT and I got a bit annoyed that they kept referring to her as "chubby" in the movie. Hugh Grant was great in this role. Great comic interludes were provided by the Billy Mack and Colin Frisell story lines.
Some of the stories weren't as good as the others but as long as you end up liking half of them, you'll probably enjoy the movie.
9/10