My family's favorite

Rating: 10/10 (16 May 2005)

It's rare to find a movie that our whole family enjoys... with four amateur-avid movie fans of distinctly different age groups and tastes, we mostly end up minding our own business and politely nod to each other's favs. But Love Actually did actually got us all together on it: we loved it. You can never go wrong with love.
I think what I am most impressed about this film is how it can be so diverse, so deep, so complicated and yet still keeps itself together and entertains us all. When you have a story surrounding 1 couple - sure, go nuts with their personalities inside out, go nuts with their soap drama, you got all the time in the world. But eight? eight?? Can the audience even keep up the number? Can they even remember their names?? Yet Love Actually actually still went nuts with their personalities, and their drama, and entertained us all... through an incredibly well-interwoven story and of course, the powerful acting of the great actors. Take all the money you want and try to make this movie; you can't.
Most of all, with all these characters doing their own stuff, the movie's theme is unswayed - that love is everywhere and everywhere. The characters we saw during the 2 hour feature were non but a tiny subset of it all... And with so many different *kinds* of chemistries, so many different contrasting, even conflicting types of affairs, it makes a very rich experience that you cannot find in most other "single dimensional" romantic movies. Go get yourself some love today.