Drivel

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2004)

It's drivel - It's a seriously good idea but it's sloppy, the links between the characters are poorly done and not exploited at all.
There are too many plots for us to understand the characters - so we cannot identify with them and we don't care what happens to them.
Too many good actors are going through the motions and fail to convince us that they are worth caring about. Only one or two strong scenes, not enough humour, all in all - drivel.
If many people saw this and liked it, as apparently they did, it explains why so much mainstream cinema is lightweight and worthless.
I suspect Richard Curtis is too busy - he should devote more time to the script and make sure that he is in the editing room so that he does not end up with a reputation which is surely much diminished by this film.