A Christmas dessert

Rating: Null/10 (17 February 2004)

This Christmas confection from Richard Curtis is a pleasant romantic comedy, with an unusually complicated plot (8 couples involved), plenty of pace, and generally good-natured humour. Hugh Grant is so absurd as Prime Minister (even in the age of Tony Blair) he almost gets away with it. Intelligent script and some recognizable people, but when you get down to it, just some very commercial entertainment with more f words than you would usually expect. Colin Firth was a perfect pain as usual, everyone else was fine, and Bill Nighy, denizen of so many dodgy roles, excelled as the aging rocker revitalizing his career by sending himself up. Even my dear old Mum enjoyed it, though she thought it `a bit pornographic'. Well, with lines like `it was Christmas, and everybody came' what do you expect?