Somewhat messy but still successful in bringing Christmas joy

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2019)

In "Love Actually", Richard Curtis puts together a British all-star cast consisting of mastodont actors such as Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson, a young - still not zombie slaying - Andrew Lincoln, cameos of Rowan Atkinson, and American Laura Linney. Not to forget, one of the film's biggest highlights, Bill Nighy. How to summarize the plot of "Love Actually"? It's about a million love stories leading up to Christmas in which they are dotted together through the characters' relationships to each other. On my opinion, no one does the predictable genre of romcoms as interesting and funny as the Brits, and this movie is basically an orgy of every single pastiche. But it also contains originality; when have you seen the love story of two naked doubles finding each other on set (Martin Freeman and Joanna Page)? And when was the last time a Portuguese father called his daughter "Dunkin' Donuts 2003" when leading Colin Firth to his much more beautiful daughter. Yes "Love Actually" is a tender, but extremely funny film. It is long but deservingly so. There are so much get out of this fantastic cast. These aspects overweights the predictable storylines, thus giving me no other option than rating this over the top Christmas-bonanza a solid plum pudding smelling 8. The memorable moments are just too many to count.