Nice, but...

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2001)

...nowhere as nice and wonderful as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was. Okay, the movie certainly had a hard life from the beginning, always being compared to Hugh Grants splendid Top Ten Ever Romantic Comedy. But even with a lot of good will, Notting Hills just pales in front of its great predecessor.
The characters are often blunt, one-dimensional and sometimes boring. Hugh Grant gives his clumsy nice guy routine. Julia Roberts gives her frog smile. And the friends of the Grant character try to achieve the level of sheer beauty and real life feeling that Grants peer group in "Four Weddings" had, but fail to reach it - they are just some british stereotypes, most of them that is.
So this is a nice movie, but far from big. Nice happy ending though. Very unrealistic...