"How low can the British go?"

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2011)

"Pretty Low, Actually" Back to when this movie came out, on Christmas eve, I took my uncle, aunt and a cousin to see it. Literally 5 min into the movie, we all had our faces burning and had to run out of the movie theater. I was so ashamed to have my uncle and aunt exposed to such foul language and explicit nudity for no apparent reason, and ONLY 5 miserable minutes into the movie!
Anyway, I forgot all about this movie and went on with my life, until a few weeks ago I was again confronted with it and this time being by myself I decided to give it a go, considering the number of big stars in it, it couldn't be that bad, right?
WRONG! It was that bad! I am glad now that I didn't waste more time of our Christmas eve with such piece of garbage. I can't understand how so many dedicated and serious movie stars would put their names up for such trash. Love Actually has very little to do with love but an awful lot to do with lust, but again, for today's standards there's very little difference between these two.
The plot, if you can call it that, is a mess, it makes no sense. The continuity is non existing and many characters simply vanish. I can only assume they did not know how to end their part in the story and it finishes unresolved. For others, it's simply too stupid, like the Collin Firth character, that after having his heart broken, falls in love with his Portuguese house maid who can't speak English, therefore, they can't even talk about the simplest of subjects.
It goes from bad to worse, from unhappy and cheated house wives to foul mouth and "has been" rock stars and young and defiant prime-ministers.
Whatever, this was a complete waste of my precious time, and truly disappointing to see how so many people could get so excited about so bad a movie, I suppose it shows that the bar is really low now and any piece of trash is appreciated. what a pity!