Britain versus the US ?

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 1999)

As Mr Stuart Brown summed it up - though I don't know him -
maybe you have to be a British expatriate to love this one. I'm
not, but Notting Hill is one of my favourite place in London. In
fact, the best parts of this movie includes Hugh "Hmmmmmm-hawwwwww- Grant's family + roommate and seems to belong to another movie - an english one. The rest is a
Hollywoodian love story, where characters fall in love for
unfathomable reason and keeps on acting unfathomably stupid
before the "Happily-ever-after" ending. No doubt, the secondary
charcaters are great, but no one can believe in Robertts/Grant
characters and actions. The most beautiful scene in the movie,
the one to decipher again and again, shows a passing of seasons
through Notting Hill in one (apparent) sequence. Which shows the
director deserves better than this material. Actually I liked
"Message in a bottle" better : as a romantic comedy, it was
contrived too, but featured atmosphere and believable characters
: both things "Notti