Okay, but not one I'll be seeing again

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 1999)

If you liked Four Weddings and a Funeral, you might like this. I for one, loved Four Weddings and consider it a classic, to be watched whenever available. This movie could have been the same, except for the roommate. If I were one of the powers-to-be, I would consider eliminating this totally unfunny, unbelievable and disgusting character entirely. His only worth to the movie is as a plot device to set up the `Boy loses Girl' `Media on the Doorstep' scene, which could be handled some other way. With absolutely no redeeming values shown, no one can believe our straight arrow hero would even know of such a person, let alone share his home with him.

With Four Weddings and a Funeral, all the minor characters were enjoyable and funny, and with the exception of Spike, so are the characters in Notting Hill. It rare that I let one minor character in a movie, define the movie for me, this however is definitely one of the times. Notting Hill is an okay movie, but not one that I will be watching again, to spare myself having to see Spike again.