Director: Richard Curtis
Writer: Richard Curtis
First of all, before I even watch this I'm gonna talk about the short film sequel that definitely won't have Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. The sequel which was announced last week has sparked a hell of a lot of excitement because apparently, this is a damn good film, I've never seen it so once I've done with this little bit I'll watch and talk about it. After the still painfully recent passing of Alan Rickman, (yes I know it's been over a year since but he played Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series which I grew up with, he was a pretty instrumental part in my life and it still pains me that I'll never get to meet one of my absolute favourite characters and that such a talent was lost so early in life, let me take my time to get over this yeah?) there has been some news that Emma Thompson won't be taking part in the short film sequel which will air on March 24th for Red Nose Day. The reason? She says it would be too soon and that anything written for her would most likely be too sad. Quote: "It's too soon. It's absolutely right because it's supposed to be for Comic Relief but there isn't much comic relief in the loss of our dear friend, really, just over a year ago." This is 100% a good decision with that reasoning. There's no way anything funny could be written to soothe the blow of the loss of a character and it would be a pretty big insult if a look-alike was cast in his place or even a damn good impersonator. I've seen people complain about Thompsons and Curtis' choice to not include her in this short film which isn't fair and I honestly hope those people come around to see that this was the best choice for everyone involved. Anyway, I'm now gonna go and make myself a brew and start watching this and making notes. I'll also leave a link to the Guardian article I got that Quote from and you can read more up on this.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/24/emma-thompson-love-actually-sequel-alan-rickman
~2 hours, 16 minutes and two cups of coffee later~
Oh my gosh, why was this so cute and so painfully English? Those two almost never go together and when they do they either result in something terrible or Daniel Radcliffe. This film is one of the best I've seen that deals with the concept of love, from old romance to new romance, hidden love to young love, the love between family and the love between friends. Pretty much everything is covered and it's lovely, it really is just lovely.
Of course, the film has its bad points too, such as Daniel (Liam Neeson) being step-father to Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster). Sam's biological father's whereabouts aren't exactly explained. Neeson is his step-father and his mother's dead. That's about it. Not to say Daniel doesn't love Sam as his own but it'd just be nice to know his dad didn't want anything to do with him or didn't know he existed or anything like that. At one point I even thought I'd misheard Neeson saying he was the step-father but towards the end, he spelt it out for a woman at Sams school and it was confirmed.
Another issue for me was that this had better sex scenes than either of the 50 Shades films and the sex scenes weren't even actual sex. It was either two actors doing test shots for a feature film or something or two actors doing test shots for pornography. I'm not 100% sure, they were pretty short and a lot more like realistic sex than anything in those "erotic" films. I'm not even sure whether this is even a problem or not...
I honestly can't find anything else negative in this aside from Bill Nighy's singing and the fact that, regardless of the fact that Juliet (Keira Knightly) had just gotten married, she runs out and kisses her husband's best friend because he held up some signs telling her how much he loved her. Kinda bullshit, unless she never even loved her husband or just fell for him at that I don't know but...I just don't believe it. Personally, I'd find it a bit weird and have a conversation with my best friend before considering anything else, that's just me though.
Honestly, I don't think I can pinpoint specific golden moments in this film without listing the entire script. I mean...at one point I kinda thought a spinoff short film about that Nativity play was necessary and hopefully, the idea comes about that they end up doing it for the next Comic Relief, or even Children In Need. Everybody's performance in this was just beautiful, and throughout it, I kept thinking about just how nice it all is. I may make notes like I'm about to write up my own version of a Cinema Sins video picking apart every little thing I can find but honestly, I did and the amount of positivity this thing produces is amazing. From how sweet it is to just how British it is.
The last thing I'll say about it is this; if there's any possibility we can get Hugh Grant's character as the PM rather than Teresa May then let it happen, even if it's just Hugh Grant as this character as the face of the politics in office, let it happen, it'd be nice to have a genuinely charming politician in power for once.
This is just my opinion and if you disagree then that's great, I'm open to discussion and I'm always interested to hear you how feel about this film. This is also a critique which is considered "Fair Use" under the Copyright Act 1976. If you like this film then go and support its creators by buying the DVD or Bluray.
Of course, the film has its bad points too, such as Daniel (Liam Neeson) being step-father to Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster). Sam's biological father's whereabouts aren't exactly explained. Neeson is his step-father and his mother's dead. That's about it. Not to say Daniel doesn't love Sam as his own but it'd just be nice to know his dad didn't want anything to do with him or didn't know he existed or anything like that. At one point I even thought I'd misheard Neeson saying he was the step-father but towards the end, he spelt it out for a woman at Sams school and it was confirmed.
Another issue for me was that this had better sex scenes than either of the 50 Shades films and the sex scenes weren't even actual sex. It was either two actors doing test shots for a feature film or something or two actors doing test shots for pornography. I'm not 100% sure, they were pretty short and a lot more like realistic sex than anything in those "erotic" films. I'm not even sure whether this is even a problem or not...
I honestly can't find anything else negative in this aside from Bill Nighy's singing and the fact that, regardless of the fact that Juliet (Keira Knightly) had just gotten married, she runs out and kisses her husband's best friend because he held up some signs telling her how much he loved her. Kinda bullshit, unless she never even loved her husband or just fell for him at that I don't know but...I just don't believe it. Personally, I'd find it a bit weird and have a conversation with my best friend before considering anything else, that's just me though.
Honestly, I don't think I can pinpoint specific golden moments in this film without listing the entire script. I mean...at one point I kinda thought a spinoff short film about that Nativity play was necessary and hopefully, the idea comes about that they end up doing it for the next Comic Relief, or even Children In Need. Everybody's performance in this was just beautiful, and throughout it, I kept thinking about just how nice it all is. I may make notes like I'm about to write up my own version of a Cinema Sins video picking apart every little thing I can find but honestly, I did and the amount of positivity this thing produces is amazing. From how sweet it is to just how British it is.
The last thing I'll say about it is this; if there's any possibility we can get Hugh Grant's character as the PM rather than Teresa May then let it happen, even if it's just Hugh Grant as this character as the face of the politics in office, let it happen, it'd be nice to have a genuinely charming politician in power for once.
This is just my opinion and if you disagree then that's great, I'm open to discussion and I'm always interested to hear you how feel about this film. This is also a critique which is considered "Fair Use" under the Copyright Act 1976. If you like this film then go and support its creators by buying the DVD or Bluray.
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