Richard Curtis has got nothing to worry about...

Rating: 1/10 (24 October 2007)

This is really pretty bad. It's a blatant attempt to 'do' a Richard Curtis style romantic comedy. It has all of the twee-ness, all of the schmaltz, all of the 'Englishness' but none of the charm. And, quite importantly, there's no comedy!!! It's faintly amusing in a couple of places but that's all you get.
Jude Law comes across as a simpleton throughout the film with the most incredibly gormless smile plastered across his face. Jack Black is wasted in this. His character is simply making up the foursome. Kate Winslet does her best. Cameron throws herself into it also. But it's just a naff film. The scenes between the developing couples are cringe-making. People don't talk like that! It's so contrived - the awards ceremony for Eli Wallach made me want to vom! Also, we are meant to believe that the Kate Winslet character is a 'leading lady' with 'gumption' yet she lets her ex-boyfriend in London - who cheated on her by the way - continue to walk all over her! And when it is revealed that Jude Law's character is a widower with 2 delightful daughters - Jeez Louise: I was dry-heaving by that stage. Oh, by the way, Cary Grant was not from Surrey - he was from Bristol.
Really, I could pull apart every scene in this film (if not every line) with just how predictable / twee / contrived / boring / clichéd / unrealistic / vom-tastic it all is. But I won't. This is my warning to you.
If these words deter just 1 person from watching this film, then I will have failed miserably!