Love Actually

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out.

Appealing and genial with plenty of solid laughs, and worthy of a recommendation for those who appreciate this kind of thing. Just don't expect material that's edgy, dark, or challenging. Consider Love Actually the antidote to "Mystic River."

Provides enough happy endings to make the audience forget that romance and Christmas miracles don't always work out.

Structurally, Love Actually is less like "Four Weddings" than it is "Scary Movie 3." ­Curtis throws every gag he can think of at the screen and the ones that don't stick, he throws again and again.

There were times watching this movie when I felt I was being force-fed 30 pounds of crème brûlée. Which isn’t to say I choked on every minute: I chortled heartily at the thread about the comeback of the washed-up rock star (Bill Nighy).

When he isn't overreaching for absurdity, Curtis can write bouncy patter, but each character gets about 60 seconds before the movie jumps deck to the next love-seeker and the next moony pratfall.

A patchwork of contrived naughtiness and forced pathos...The loose ends are neatly tied up, as they are when you seal a bag of garbage -- or if you prefer, rubbish.

Love Actually is a collection of stories about how these people either fell in love or how sometimes love cannot always be. However, at the end of the day, love always wins and nothing can stop it, even if you speak different languages. Love has no barrier and if you want it you need to go get it, and sometimes that might mean travelling across the world to meet the love of your life. Imagine a film which combines all of the best romance films into one and you have Love Actually. Almost every story in this could be made into its own film as each one is as unique as the other, having their own meaning and emotions. The viewer gets to see every angle, from love across the globe, love you can't get and love you need to go fight for. One of my favourite aspects of the film is the use of music with the scenes. The music is made to be perfect for the emotion, giving me goosebumps. I also just loved every story that is told throughout and that's because of the meaning that each relationship holds, and what it means to the viewer. Love Actually... is all around.

At least half of the stories in this film are quite gross, creepy, or not romantic. Colin's Firth story is very cute. Bill Nighy and Rowan Atkinson save the day with their acting. "Just in cases".

'Love Actually' isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures. The film really captures the spirit of Christmas and Bill Nighy was fun to watch. Nighy has the best story in the movie, in my opinion. Andrew Lincoln, on the other hand, is creepy as hell in this movie. Even Lincoln himself admitted it. Putting aside the creepiness, it's still the most Christmas of all Christmas movies you'll find.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Can't imagine how they convinced so many famous, gifted performers to participate in this moronic, misogynistic, substandard, poorly written, incompetently edited and deeply unfunny movie.