Opportunistic and harmless little film

Rating: 1/10 (2 June 1999)

"Notting Hill" is destined to be the hype of the year in Britain and, as usually, what you get is a lot less than all the hype made you expect. The attempt to cash in on "Four Weddings.." is really obvious, but at least the latter had some rhythm. In "Notting Hill", the storyline is just an excuse for yet another artificial joke. Another problem is that the image the fime wants to portray is so clean, that it ends up having no relation to the actual neighbourhood it tries to portray. A total waste of money, which should be compensated by all unwarned movie-goers.