Dire Actually

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2004)

Cynically made film to appeal to the Notting Hill brigade. Hugh Grant took huge steps backwards with this role. Is reprising the song Love is All Around clever or a chronic lack of ideas?!?
The only redeeming feature was the Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman storyline, it was like an oasis in the middle of a desert of banality.
Having said this, the box office doesn't lie and lazy filmmaking of this type seems to attract audiences - I assume Curtis' next film will be on the lines of Four Weddings and a Singleton in Notting Hill, Actually.