Celebrity Death Match: Nora Ephron vs Richard Curtis

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2004)

Imagine all the worst parts of Four Weddings and a Funeral stretched out and put in one movie. I thought only Nora Ephron could write such cutesy nauseating drivel.

Such a great cast of actors deserve so much better than this embarassing mishmash of absolute dreck. Not even the combined natural charm of Grant, Firth, Rickman, Thompson, et al can overcome the lazy writing and self-indulgent direction.

And the soundtrack! For goodness sake, turn down the saccharine triumphal crescendos. And get past the Eighties. Maybe Curtis should read some Nick Hornby, especially the parts in About a Boy (the book, not the movie) about "Both Sides Now."
During the children's concert, The child singer's American-Idol-crap vibrato gave me severe nerve damage. How did this style of dying-cow wailing ever become popular?
Hugh Grant's dancing scene was a low point in his career rivalling his arrest for soliciting prostitution.
Cleanse your palate and rent "Sense and Sensibility" or "Truly, Madly, Deeply" or "You Can Count on Me" or "Fever Pitch" or "High Fidelity" or even "About a Boy". Anything but this.