(rated R)
It’s four weeks before Christmas in London. Hugh Grant is a Tony Blair-style Prime Minister to an arrogant Billy Bob Thorton’s President. Liam Neeson is a recent widower. Colin Firth finds his wife in bed with his brother while Alan Rickman and wife Emma Thompson are a bit shaky. Together the multiple tales weave into a lesson that no matter what age or timing in life, it’s never too late for love. Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and A Funeral, Notting Hill) teams with Grant to lead the pack of lovelorn skits. The one of aging perverted rock star (Bill Nighy) steals the show with attitude like, “Kids, don’t buy drugs – you can get them for free!” While it’s a lot of overjoy and overkill in storylines that come off more as one-liners than a cohesive force, it doesn’t matter. The over the top ending will send you reeling several times over as each plot soars beyond “Pretty Woman” or “Officer And A Gentleman’s” endings. You’ll cry, you’ll laugh and in the end you’ll realize that all that really matters, is love, actually.
It’s four weeks before Christmas in London. Hugh Grant is a Tony Blair-style Prime Minister to an arrogant Billy Bob Thorton’s President. Liam Neeson is a recent widower. Colin Firth finds his wife in bed with his brother while Alan Rickman and wife Emma Thompson are a bit shaky. Together the multiple tales weave into a lesson that no matter what age or timing in life, it’s never too late for love. Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and A Funeral, Notting Hill) teams with Grant to lead the pack of lovelorn skits. The one of aging perverted rock star (Bill Nighy) steals the show with attitude like, “Kids, don’t buy drugs – you can get them for free!” While it’s a lot of overjoy and overkill in storylines that come off more as one-liners than a cohesive force, it doesn’t matter. The over the top ending will send you reeling several times over as each plot soars beyond “Pretty Woman” or “Officer And A Gentleman’s” endings. You’ll cry, you’ll laugh and in the end you’ll realize that all that really matters, is love, actually.