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Love Actually should carry a government health warning: ‘Not Suitable for Diabetics’. It’s so sugary sweet, you can practically taste it, but at the same time it’s a great two-hour escape from the world, worth seeing for Hugh Grant dancing through the rooms of 10 Downing Street if nothing else. It’s his best role in years, but then that’s not saying much.

In fact, it’s worth seeing for the bits where they walk you from the familiar view of the outside of Number 10, through the black door and deep into the house by way of hallways and coridoors. If they didn’t use the real house, it was a pretty impressive scam.

The story itself is huge and runs at quite a pace, dragging along with it pretty much anyone who is anything in British films - Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Marting McCutcheon, and Alan Rickman (in decidedly non-Hans Gruber mode) among others.

The only trouble is, it’s a Richard Curtis‘ Greatest Hits film, so if you didn’t like Four Weddings, Bridget Jones or Notting Hill you certainly won’t like this one, either.

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