Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Go see Love Actually when you get a chance, gentle reader, and bring some buddies along when you do so. While Matrix Revolutions may be the very antithesis of schmaltz, I challenge you to walk out of Love Actually and not find it a more enjoyable movie experience.

Now, understand I speak as one who hasn’t tottered over to the artsy theater since Amelie, and die-hard art housers would probably paint that movie as hopelessly mass marketed. I also speak as someone who wishes that good ol’ Sly would tumble down those steps, a defeated husk of a man too wheezy to make a difference.

I’m glad I shared all that with you. So what makes Love so good? There are multiple storylines, for starters, so chances are that at least one of them will strike your fancy. The cast is also as varied as it is fun, and even Bill “I single-handedly sucked the few drops of dignity out of Underworld” Nighy enhanced the experience. Hugh Grant also got his hair cut. That alone is worth seven bucks.