nobody does it better

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2015)

This review written 12 years after the release.
The nice thing about belated reviews is that we the reviewers can stop all the pretence and coyness.
By now we realize that our views -- over a decade after the fact -- matter not a whit or a jot, so we can say what we feel without worrying about offending another IMDb member or the producers or any of the stars.
So I will just say it: BRILLIANT.
Possibly the best anthology Rom-Com ever done. Sets the bar for all other such features. From the opening with Bill Nighy (who astonishingly did a vampire series just after) to the closing, this is the most fun you are going to have outside of a theme park or an adult ranch in Nevada.
Every country on the planet has given this type of film a whirl, and probably there are even now film students who think the US nailed it (maybe with one of the old O HENRY anthologies?) They are all wrong. This is the king of the hill. To paraphrase Nighy's character, IMDb members who gave it less than a 10 are ... rubbish.