I loved it, actually (So sad, I know)

Rating: 8/10 (6 August 2004)

What can I say? I'm a sucker for the rom coms, namely British rom coms. Give me a Hollywood one and I may not praise it as highly. I really, thoroughly enjoyed this film. It makes you feel good about yourself, especially if you're with someone although I fear it could have the opposite effect on those who aren't. So what if it's a bit cheesy? OK, it gets to very cheesy when the boy-next-door turned Prime Minister Hugh Grant dances round 10 Downing Street to "Jump for my love". And well, the Heathrow scene at the end is a bit too much. However, all the little stories intertwined was in my opinion genius. We weren't stuck on the same characters for approximately 2 hours, but instead there was lots of variation. And the love stories weren't you're average boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, love is destroyed by something major, boy follows girl to airport stories. The representation of all the different forms of love was excellent, from affairs to love between a brother and sister. The cast in this film is certainly worthy of note. I'm a fan of Colin Firth and Alan Rickman, and to a lesser extent young Hugh. it was brilliant to see them in a film together. This film even stopped my life long hatred of Martine McCutcheon (oh come on, who didn't hate her in Eastenders?). Liam Neeson was fabulous, Emma Thompson her ever brilliant self, Bill Nighy as the hilarious, but quite frankly a bit scary, Billy Mack and a very welcome reappearance of T.V's Rab C. Nesbitt (Gregor Fisher). I just thought it all worked and it is the perfect movie for a night in.
P.S. In homage I named one of my fish Billy Mack