A few too many story lines perhaps?

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2010)

Recently I've been watching a lot of movies, happily sitting through them, and then at the end, well i realise that they weren't that good. Maybe the fact i didn't mind watching them is a better reflection on the movie then picking it to pieces but i think the second analysis is still valid.
The first thing i thought was wrong with the movie is that after a 2hour 10minute movie the only characters who i can seriously say i knew anything about were Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, which i will say now was the highlight of the movie, very well executed. However you could probably remove some of the other characters that have so little air time it might as well be given to some other characters. Bill Nighy has to go, i love him as an actor but not only did they almost ruin my perception of him by portraying him as a potty mouth rock star, with no form of disguise to make it seem like it wasn't Bill Nighy, but i didn't feel like i knew him at all. The whole point of his presence in the movie was to make it seem like he was abusing his manager too much, which i thought wasn't very subtle at all and i couldn't grasp much else from his 10 minutes of on screen time.
I thought the porn stars were an interesting couple but weren't given enough airtime, so give them somebody else's. Keira Knightley and her husband had promise but were given little airtime to make me think they were a worthwhile inclusion in the movie. One of the better points of the movie i thought was when the best man was in love with Keira Knightley but chose to back off completely because his best friend was married to her, and then they ruined it by making him inappropriately approach her and make her laugh at all his ridiculously stupid joke palm cards.
Just too many characters, i didn't feel the plight of any of them, some of them should have stayed in the editing room, thats for you to decide.
Im not writing this to encourage you to see the movie because obviously either you've already seen it or I've just completely ruined it for you, but id just like to see whether anybody else felt the same way about the movie as i did.