Love Actually was the best comedy I saw in 2003.

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2004)

Love Actually was the best comedy I saw in 2003. I went back to see it twice, just to hear what I missed because I was laughing so hard the first time. All the stories work for me, especially the main ones: the Prime Minister & Natalie; Jamie & Aurelia; Sam & Joanna; and the Emma Thompson-Alan Rickman tragedy. Billy Mack was a hoot, & I so wanted to be Colin Frissel 'liasing'with the quintet of Wisconsin uber-babes!

I bought the soundtrack just to hear that little girl, Olivia Olson, sing "All I Want for Christmas is You," but the rest of the music - songs & score - is very good. I've used music to 'decorate' several plays I've written & directed, and I can see why Richard Curtis said that Love Actually wouldn't be a complete film without the music. Aristotle's Poetics still works 2500 years later - music helps the production, live or filmed.

I feel sorry for those who didn't 'get it' & made negative comments.