Unwatchable

Rating: 1/10 (30 April 2016)

I avoid chick flicks like the plague but I thought I might actually like this one because it was created by the co-writer of "Blackadder." Well, I've come to the conclusion that what I liked about "Blackadder" must have been all due to Ben Elton because I found this embarrassingly bad. After making myself watch about the first half hour, I realized I wasn't going to be able to stand to watch it at normal speed, so I tried fast-forwarding just to the Alan Rickman-Emma Thompson storyline segments, but the spectacle of Alan's character casually betraying Emma's with that Scandinavian gargoyle was too much for my stomach and I just ended up watching the rest of the whole thing at top speed.
Now I'm seeing people yelping with rage over Garry Marshall's newest installment in his Love Actually-clone holiday-themed romcom series. If people hadn't emptied their saliva glands onto this movie so copiously we might have real movies for grownups in theaters instead of this kind of sludge, but you voted with your feet and this is what we get.