Worth seeing for the Emma Thompson scene alone

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2004)

I would sit through a 24 hour long movie about absolutely nothing to see the Emma Thompson scene after she has opened the CD. If that scene doesn't rip your guts out then you are basically dead... Yes okay I am an unabashed Emma Thompson fan.... I think she is utterly brilliant in whatever she does..., but come on that scene... it displays all the best that is acting, it wrenches your emotion from you, it makes you cry with her, it makes your heart want to reach out to her, BRILLIANT. As for everything else I loved it, I could have done without the shy porn stars... (with a teenager in the house it was a little too much to watch in his presence) Hugh Grant was as usual perfect as the single PM..., and his longing for his tea girl was just precious, his speech at the press conference made me want to jump up and scream "Rule Britannia" (okay I am a brit, forgive me). As for the other love stories I was heartbroken that the American girl (forget her name) had to choose her mentally ill brother over the love of her life, kept thinking that perhaps she should TELL HIM ABOUT IT perhaps? I mean if he loved her he would understand right? As for the English guy going to the US to get sex, I can confirm that he is probably right. You have no idea what a British accent does to Americans, I get really good service in restaurants you know:) Anyhoo see it, if only to watch Emma Thompson at her absolute best, I would watch her read the phone book, but in this movie she is superb. "you mean there was more than one lobster at the birth of Jesus?" Brilliant.