Hollywood tries to make a British comedy

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 2000)

Except for a few rare exceptions, Hollywood movies don't innovate, aren't creative or original. It's just formula movies. We saw movies likeNotting Hill a hundred times (for example, Bombshell, in the early 1930's with Jean Harlow, or Roman Holiday, in the early 1950's, with Audrey Hepburn. Same type of films.) What saves this one from Hollywood boredom formula movies is that it's set in England. In fact, they try very hard to make it as brillant as English comedies of the 1990's, but miss the point. I enjoy the movie because of the great talent of Hugh Grant. Remove 20 minutes of it and I will say it is a very good film. I'm saying that it's just OK. which means that it's a little bit better than most romance formula comedies set in the US. It's also got a bit of French Vie Privée, of Louis Malle, in the early 1960's, with Brigitte Bardot.