Love-lives of the Rich along with The Not-So-Famous: A View of Spoiler Hill

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2004)

Hugh Grant is your perpetual goofy good guy and Rhys Ifans as the dopey flatmate with incredible T-Shirts was a classic foil yet Hugh's saviour in the end...
Rhys was hilarious posing for the paparazzi, and he made up for his flub in the end by literally putting his life on the line to stop the traffic to let Hugh & Co. go through to the hotel find Julia. (loved the cartoon aliases and how the Japanese thought a simple exuberant gesture of gratitude was a common greeting, LOL)
Alec Baldwin was effective in his cameo as the slovenly soon-to-be ex-lover of Julia...
Julia was not as effective as I thought she could be, there was no "Pretty Woman" spark... Yet the passage of a year with just the duration of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" as Hugh walked through the Notting Hill Market more than made up for it - a true cinematographic gem worthy of the classification of "classic!"
The chase scene at the end was also magnificent punctuated by Stevie Winwood's "Gimme Some Lovin'" (You gotta admit the his character was DUMB! HellOOOoooo? A woman spends money to buy an ORIGINAL Chagall as a way of saying "Sorry" and you say "NO?" Are you on peyote, man?)
The end was beautiful, I never thought something as simple as a park bench could be so romantic?