Surprisingly fun

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2018)

I first watched this when it first came out on cinema and found it so annoying and sacharrine that I recall vowing never to watch it again. But here we are 15 years later and I was forced to watch it by my family as it's Christmas and I always make them watch gritty stuff. The film itself was mostly over sentimentalised and predictable claptrap but it didn't take itself seriously and it easily passed both the 6 and 10 laugh test, although I did often laugh at how ridiculous it all was. I hated the Bill Nighy song but maybe I'm just being overly grumpy. The ending was so sickly that I felt I needed to purify myself with a Ken Loach drama. But hey, Christmas really is all around us so I'll give it a humourous 6 out of ten.