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 Love Actually (2003): Reviews
A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, Love Actually is still nearly as cloying as it is funny…its cheeky wit, impossibly attractive cast and sure-handed professionalism are beguiling.
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.
Ultimately, when Love Actually pulls out all the stops, which it does at least three times during the final smorgasbord of climaxes, it can be well nigh irresistible.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/loveactually   (2013 words)

  
 LOVE ACTUALLY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
"Love Actually" is the kind of movie that tells you love actually works as long as you believe it will, and as long as you have the guts to perform embarrassing acts to that end.
With "Love Actually," however, Curtis seems to be telling us that he still got it, and he got it plenty.
"Love Actually" is the story of a fair few relationships forming and sparking, mostly starting up and involving characters who realise their true love is quite often underneath their nose.
www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/l/loveactually/review.htm   (1754 words)

  
 Love Actually - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Love Actually is a romantic comedy first released in cinemas in October and November 2003.
The soundtrack album for Love Actually has achieved some chart success reaching the top 40 of the US Billboard 200 in 2004 and number 2 on the soundtrack album chart.
Love Actually was the first film to introduce American singer Olivia Olson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Love_Actually   (2662 words)

  
 Love Actually
Love Actually is sentimental sludge with a saccharine coating of carnality, as if the filmmakers—afraid their mawkish melodrama might show too much—spliced nudity and sex throughout so as to trick critics into calling it edgy and artsy.
Love Actually shows them fully nude several times and for lengthy periods while they pretend to have oral sex and intercourse (lower sexual organs are the only things hidden from view).
Love Actually's filmmakers (responsible for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary) take The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" a bit too literally.
www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0001553.cfm   (1112 words)

  
 TheMovieBoy Review - Love Actually (2003)
Keeping a scorecard of all of the characters and their relations with one another would not be a bad idea, although as written and directed by Richard Curtis (2002's "About a Boy") it isn't nearly as confusing as it's about to seem.
"Love Actually" is so sweet, so cheerful, and so eager-to-please in its singular goal to be "the ultimate romantic comedy" that it almost seems wrong to say anything negative about it.
As a Christmas love story, "Love Actually" is, indeed, romantic and jubilant enough to become a holiday mainstay for adults.
www.themovieboy.com /reviews/l/03_loveactually.htm   (700 words)

  
 Movie Review for Love Actually - 2003-11-01
In Love Actually, love triumphs, love fails, love begins, love reaches its end, love is born anew.
Yes, Love Actually is another romantic comedy, but distinguishes itself from the usual rom-com pack by being the first one this year worth seeing.
However, Love Actually's take on the holiday season is an extremely adult one, bringing the world of relationships and adult confrontations into the land of St. Nick.
www.filmhobbit.com /cgi-bin/movies/movies.cgi?action=showreview&review=loveactually   (844 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Love Actually: Video: Chiwetel Ejiofor,Colin Firth,Gregor Fisher,Martin Freeman (II),Jill Freud,Hugh ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Love is shown in its fantastical romantic form, as well as in the form that develops slowly in a relationship where 2 people have grown into it.
Love Actually is a great English romantic comedy full of several different stories going on at the same time, and each engages you in its plot quickly.
This is no exception as she plays Karen, a devoted and loving housewife who must come to terms with the fact that her husband Harry (Alan Rickman) is cheating on her with the office tramp.
www.amazon.ca /Love-Actually-Hugh-Grant/dp/B0001GL3KE   (1754 words)

  
 Cinema Eye: Love Actually
Love Actually is an intentionally overstuffed fruitcake of a holiday movie… but it makes no apologies.
Love Actually is not really a traditional story, but more of a theme piece about love.
Love Actually marks Curtis’ directorial debut, and while the film is hardly ground-breaking cinema, you have to give him credit for juggling dozens of characters and story lines in a manner that keeps everything clear.
www.cinemaeye.com /index/reviews/rev_more/love_actually   (882 words)

  
 Colin Firth - Love Actually
Love Actually is what used to be called a portmanteau film, with Curtis dexterously cutting back and forth between nine sets of loosely linked characters and storylines.
Love Actually glitters with inventiveness—one timid character silently bares his soul to his dream girl with oversized cue cards— and gives us the distinct feeling of snuggling up to someone we love on a perfect winter’s night.
Love Actually glitters with inventiveness—one timid character silently bares his soul to his dream girl with oversized cue cards—and gives us the distinct feeling of snuggling up to someone we love on a perfect winter’s night.
www.firth.com /love.html   (5813 words)

  
 Love Actually - Movie Review
Or maybe Love Actually is just in a universe of its own… one in which the prime minister is inaugurated in November and where an adverb can be used to modify a noun.
Too bad then that Love Actually is so derivative that it ultimately turns into a severe case of déjà vu.
Love Actually is never hard to follow -- because Curtis doesn't even bother to make these stories connect beyond a few irrelevant coincidences -- but it is hard to really care about three dozen main characters, each with eight minutes of screen time.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/loveactually   (696 words)

  
 Love Actually   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Love Actually is emotionally manipulative, but pleasantly so.
Love, Actually” is a bit sluggish at times, the film’s good nature and wit grows on you.
There are no fewer than nine interlocking and overlapping love stories in Richard Curtis' deadly epic sprawl of a romantic comedy, Love Actually.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/love_actually   (997 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Love Actually: Music: Various,Craig Armstrong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Such is the savvy and ingenuity of the team behind Love Actually, the accompanying soundtrack knows its target demographic and seizes it by the throat.
Love Actually is great fun and will undoubtably be a hit at office parties across the land; the only drawback is the conspicuous absence of Robbie Williams.
I loved the film and unlike most Romantic comedies, where the soundtrack often fails to deliever with typical soppy ballads plonked in the movie, this soundtrack does justice to the movie.
www.amazon.co.uk /Love-Actually-Various/dp/B0000V6SOG   (872 words)

  
 LOVE ACTUALLY
Richard Curtis has penned some of the biggest UK-to-US hits in Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral, but Love Actually is his first directorial effort.
Essentially, Actually is about a gaggle of people attempting to overcome various differences in hopes of finding True Holiday Love (herein referred to as THL) during the five weeks leading up to Christmas.
Actually is one of those films you enjoy while you're watching it, then realize how truly empty it is some time later.
www.sick-boy.com /loveactually.htm   (577 words)

  
 Love Actually (2003)
These London lives and loves collide, mingle and climax on Christmas Eve—again and again and again—with romantic, hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love’s spell.
His story addresses the rejuvenative powers of love, as Jamie falls out of love with his unfaithful girlfriend and sequesters himself in the south of France, where he hopes to write a novel and mend his heart.
Most of “Love Actually” is as bright and cheery as a string of Christmas lights.
www.friendsoffirth.com /la/index.html   (3873 words)

  
 Love Actually - Reviews
A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, "Love Actually" is still nearly as cloying as it is funny.
Grandly conceived by contemporary British genre master Richard Curtis as a mosaic of love stories that collectively stress the primacy of amour even in difficult times, this doggedly cheery confection persists in going overboard with smiles, hugs, kisses and musical reassurances that all you need is love.
This Christmas, Love Actually is the perfect end-of-year film, and the most exquisite romantic comedy seen in a decade.
www.firth.com /love_rev.html   (1878 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Love Actually (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Hugh Grant,Liam Neeson,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Colin Firth,Gregor ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
"Love Actually" is just the right mix of romantic comedy and drama to leave you with that warm, fuzzy feeling as you leave the theatre.
I love watching the what the actors DO with this material, and how they manage, with so little time, to invest the viewer in their story.
Love actually is deffinitely one of my favorite romantic movies i have seen in a long time.
www.amazon.com /Love-Actually-Widescreen-Hugh-Grant/dp/B00005JMFQ   (2578 words)

  
 Alan Rickman in Love Actually
Love Actually was Best British Film and Emma Thompson Best British Actress in the Empire Awards 2004.
From the site: http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/article673.html “Love Actually” is smug, childish, clichéd, unrelentingly and sickeningly upbeat, and when Hugh Grant decides to shake his ass to the Pointer Sisters’ “Jump (For My Love),” the picture becomes embarrassingly silly.
There are many varieties of love on offer: unrequited love, inter-class love, love that can't articulate and a love triangle, featuring Makatsch, Rickman and Thompson, which provides some of the more grown-up emotion in the film.
www.rickmanistareview.com /loveactually.html   (1262 words)

  
 The Flick Filosopher | Love Actually   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
So you gotta know that when I tell you not to miss Love Actually, and to bring all your friends, and to tell all the friends you can't take to go on their own, it's gotta be something really special.
Except that this is a film so full of tenderness and longing, of sacrifice and devotion, from the very first moment, that it's overwhelming, and enchantingly so, and the only possible emotional reaction is to have a good, satisfying cry that lasts its entire running time.
The really terrific thing is that Love Actually, while it certainly lives up to its "ultimate romantic comedy" label, is a celebration of all kinds of love -- between siblings, between parents and children, among lifelong friends of all stripes...
www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2003/loveactually.shtml   (427 words)

  
 St Bride's: News section
This central theme of Christianity is particularly evident in the song "Where is the Love", and the film "Love Actually".
The world must be ready for the preaching of love because the film Love Actually also carries the same message.
After seeing Love Actually I thought of how lucky I will be to be with those I love this Christmas.
www.stbrides.com /news/archives/2003/12/love_actually.html   (458 words)

  
 Love Actually
Rather sprawling in its portrayal of several love stories, the film strikes some appeal at times, and misses the mark at others -- all the while somehow managing to present itself in a charming manner.
With not much time to actually get to know the characters, excellent actors come to the call, and in fact, most do a find job there.
With so many little stories of love and love gone sour to tell, the movie gets to be a bit of a mess at times.
www.rossanthony.com /L/loveactually.shtml   (306 words)

  
 Love Actually (2003)
Love Actually opens with Hugh Grant providing a contemplative voice over, pondering the power of love and concluding that it is, actually, all around.
The love stories portrayed are not confined to the standard boy-meets-girl fairy tale.
Unlike the troubled Le Divorce, Love Actually uses all the actors to their full potential.
www.moviepie.com /filmfests/love_actually.htm   (535 words)

  
 3BlackChicks Review™... LOVE ACTUALLY (Bams)
Love Actually features an ensemble cast of characters whose stories all revolve around a theme that gets the Whifflebat treatment here: Love (Actually) Is All Around.
Though that usually implies romantic love, the notion is that love comes when it's least expected, as the Cast Of Thousands discover in eight interweaving stories about first love, new love, familial love, unrequited love, recuperative love...you get the idea.
In any event, I loved every minute Sangster was on-screen; I cringed a bit at some of the words writer/director Richard Curtis put in Sam's mouth, but the shock soon passed.
www.3blackchicks.com /2003reviews/bamsloveactually.html   (807 words)

  
 Love Actually
Sam's also in a funk because he's in love with a girl at school who pays no attention to him and he's desperate to make an impression on her.
Laura Linney is the polar opposite of her character in "Mystic River," as she loves a co-worker but has a family conflict that keeps getting in the way.
Thompson's wrenching discovery leads to a scene between the two characters that is filled with emotion, love, honesty and friendship.
www.reelmoviecritic.com /20037q/id1951.htm   (380 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire | "Love Actually" movie review (2003) "Love Actually" review, Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, ...
And yet, you'd have to be a terrible grump to not like "Love Actually" at least a little.
Some stories are tinged with tribulation (a stale but loving marriage is shaken by a provocative younger woman) and some are thin and played strictly for guffaws (a pathetic pick-up artist moves to America to score with ditzy blonde sexpots he hopes are suckers for an English accent).
"Love Actually" is actually nothing more than a fluffy, synthetically holiday-themed two-plus hours of fairytales for grown-ups (the story of two movie stand-ins chatting their way into mutual adoration while doubling for a sex scene is one of the reasons for the "R" rating).
www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/loveactually.html   (576 words)

  
 Love Actually movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
Love Actually will be released on R2 DVD in the UK on the 22nd March 2004.
Love Actually has had a small scene removed for it's British Airways in flight showings, and all because it mentions September 11th.
Bill Nighy who stars as Billy Mac, a failed musician in Love Actually is releasing a comedy version of the track that will be called Christmas Is All Around, just in time for Christmas.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/l/loveactually.shtm   (1005 words)

  
 JoBlo.com presents Love Actually: Poster, Pictures, Trailer, Synopsis, Cast & More
LOVE ACTUALLY is not a new romantic comedy…it is 10 new romantic films in one.
LOVE ACTUALLY is actually short for "Love Actually Is All Around" and that is the argument of the film - that everywhere you look, love is the driving force in people's lives.
From prime ministers to aging rock stars, from a stony headmistress to a monolingual Portuguese housemaid, the film looks at funny, sad and stupid sides of love in all shapes and sizes.
www.joblo.com /upcomingmovies/2003/loveactually.htm   (281 words)

  
 Love Actually (2003) movie review
While it is not as good as any of those previous films, there is still much in the movie to love.
One of Curtis' recurring motifs in his films has always been that the lead characters are surrounded by a tight-knit group of eccentric friends.
In Love Actually, the film is made up of all friends and no leads.
www.popentertainment.com /loveactually.htm   (125 words)

  
 Love Actually Movie, Review, Cast for Love Actually | TVGuide.com
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 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Love Actually"
Laura Linney and Colin Firth in "Love Actually."
There are no fewer than nine interlocking and overlapping love stories in Richard Curtis' deadly epic sprawl of a romantic comedy, "Love Actually." By the end of the movie, that's nine too many.
This is the kind of flitting and flirting, coupling and uncoupling, that fills "Love Actually" until it can take no more.
archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/11/07/love_actually   (260 words)

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