I wanted to like this film, but...

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2003)

I'm a sucker for British film and television and I love London (sure wish that I could spend a Christmas there), but there are limits to what I'll tolerate in any country's efforts to sell tickets. To the makers of this "humorous, heart-lifting, holiday love fest," I repeat Cindy Lou Who's question to the Grinch, "Why, Sandy Claus, why?".
Why were a great number of very good actors willing to do this? Why are so many viewer's so enthralled with it? Why didn't the makers know when to stop when the excesses of sappiness and unbelievability had to be so apparent? Why throw in many efforts to shock the viewer when it is so obvious that most of them are pointless?
I was a very big fan of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," but they should stop trying to remake it. There have to be much better films to make, actually.