This is dishonesty in advertising

Rating: 3/10 (11 September 2005)

It wouldn't have bothered me that this movie sucked - under any normal circumstances I wouldn't even have bothered panning it - but what really raised my ire was that this film was advertised as 'from the makers of Bridget Jones Diary, Notting Hill, and Four Weddings and a Funeral', which is kind of true; the production company was the same.
BUT, and it's a big 'but' folks, this film, unlike the aforementioned three, was NOT written by the altogether talented Richard Curtis (y'know, the kiwi that has written just about everything funny to come out of england in the last 20 years).
I go to great pains to point this out for the unsuspecting viewer who might think by renting Wimbledon they are about about to have unleashed upon them something as charming as 'Love Actually' or something as achingly funny as 'Four Weddings', when in fact all they'll get is all the charm and wit of a Zimbabwean politician.
That Richard (Richard III) Loncraine directed this slap-in-the-face-with-a-wet-fish piece of drivel bears mentioning only as a contrast to what the difference between a good script and a bad one can mean to a director.
Yoda says, 'Like the plague you should avoid this'
Ugh.