Light weight fare - Americanized Brit-Pop of a Movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2004)

1) A lot of American movies are crap, and as an American I can be objective about it.
2) Too many 'furriners' cut American movies just to be Political, and they can lump it.
3) This movie, if American made, would be dismissed categorically as more 'crap from Hollywood'.
4) But it's not, it's British, so let's shove some more stars on it.
Was it bad? No. It was better than being poked in the eye with a pointy stick. It DID have a few laughs, and the multiple story lines were easy enough to follow, it wasn't all that heavy to begin with.
But it was just one huge cliché. I didn't really give a rats ass about any of the characters, and none of them seemed real, they were stock movie characters from central casting. The stories were a either too fantastic to imagine to buy into (the Prime Minister falling for a house wench, the guy going to America and gets multiple-laid in an hour?), or were so routine (the office story or the loving the best friend's girlfriend who thinks you don't like her). Blah Blah Blah.
7.8 out of ten (as of 11/8/04)? C'mon! 6 out of ten, maybe.