Lovely airy romantic story where the scenery is as good a reason to watch as the plot.

Rating: 7/10 (31 March 2004)

Notting Hill is such an obvious warm, lovely airy romantic movie you almost don't want to say anything bad about it because of just how sweet it is. And actually, I don't have anything bad to say because I quite enjoyed Notting Hill. It was sweet, mildly funny, touching. However, the one of the best things about it was the scenery. This movie is so beautiful visually it's almost worth it, even if one doesn't get into the plot, to see it for the Gorgeus rolling hills and scenery in general. It was lovely. Lovely is definitely the word that comes to mind when viewing Notting Hill. It was pretty much almost exactly what I thought it would be going into it.
As enjoyable a movie as this is, I wouldn't say it bowled me over. I liked, not loved it and have enjoyed other romantic comedies more although as mentioned, as far as cinematography goes it gets 10 of 10.The SECOND observation I wanted to make and something that I've noticed is lacking in other romantic comedies is -ENDING SPOILER 2)The end was UNUSALLY touching. Rather then, when the guy and girl eventually get together and the audience gets to see that 1 scene where MAYBE they kiss-this ending went on a minute or two and showed the couple's wedding, kids, walking the red carpet. I liked that. It was a nice change. To many other romantic comedies including Truly great ones don't do that-they end to abruptly-I liked, tremendously the scene where they get together at the end,at the press conference, it was very touching and the fact that they stretched the end a bit was particularly nice.Notting Hill, in my opinion has more pure romance in it then comedy but it's an excellent choice and a must see for any fan of romances in general.