Movie #60 - Love Actually

Title: Love Actually

Director: Richard Curtis

Release Year: 2003

Plot Summary: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Thoughts: Wasn't bad, but I wasn't particularly impressed, either. While generally I tend to enjoy movies that deal with a great number of not-obviously-related storylines that all tie together in the end (see Magnolia, Crash), I didn't really feel like this one tied together at all. And perhaps that wasn't the point, and most likely it wasn't, but it just ended up feeling like a bunch of stories told in random order.

Some of these stories were quite good - Daniel (Neeson) and his stepson; the Prime Minister (Grant) and a member of his household staff; Billy Mack (Nighy) and his pop music comeback; and Colin (Marshall) and his hilarious plan to go to America to get all the ladies. The rest of them were not particularly impressive to me, especially John & Judy, the movie stand-ins, who seemed completely unrelated to the rest of the characters. And I think that's where it breaks down - I only ended up liking about half the movie, and the half that I didn't like was pretty much randomly interspersed into the half I liked.

Rating (0-10): 5.2

Recomendations: Now this one is definitely a chick-flick. ;)