Rubbish, actually

Rating: 4/10 (1 December 2003)

This film would have been a lot better had the number of stories been cut and each plot allowed to develop a little further. Often this film was cringing, the PM dancing to 'Jump' (sadly not Van Halen either) and the school boy who has fallen in love. There were some redeeming features, particularly involving Alan Rickman's relationship with his PA(?), Andrew Lincoln's with Keira Knightley and the story of Colin Firth's relationship, but apart from the latter, these stories were not allowed to develop. As with all Richard Curtis films the characters are so bloody British and upper middle-class that frankly it gets rather tiring and the formula of sticking Hugh Grant as a main character and having Rowan Atkinson in a small role is wearing rather thin.