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Curtis’s poignant, irreverent, and laugh-out-loud screenplay grossed more than $200 million wordwide and garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. This book includes the complete script, plus scenes that were cut from the film, anecdotes, and observations from the author. Photographs…. More >>
Four Weddings and a Funeral: The Screenplay for the Smash Hit Comedy
#1 by Anonymous on June 2, 2010 - 3:35 am
Deliriously unfunny flick about Dysfunctional British White Trash Set starring that English guy with sticky big tooth grin who can’t stop “acting” as if were 14 years old (O.K. 8 years old). McDowell’s set in granite smile even more putrid as was her ameba like portrayal of worthless All American tramp.
It goes without saying that only the two homosexuals would be portrayed as being half way decent and not altogether mindless.
Film pinned a phony Valentine on characters at the tail end, can’t say why other than to relieve viewers suffering. Actually, couldn’t take more than 40 minutes of it. Didn’t matter because if you only see the first 20 min. that will be sufficient (they didn’t title this one Four Wedding for nothing). Reappeared during the last five to see dumb resolution. Didn’t buy a word of it. Doesn’t matter because NOTHING about these characters mattered. Sickening making. Typical European yuck and snot.
No surprise that it went over big in America.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by robert nt stewart on June 2, 2010 - 5:10 am
Where to begin with this cack? Any film made for ?middle Americans about Britain/the British is going to be heading for the file marked “For the Hard of Thinking”.
Think Friends (in London), think Austin Powers, think Dudley Moore, in fact don’t think. Just leave your brain at the video counter when you rent this.
How this cringing pot-boiler passed the British Board of Censorship is beyond me. No tired cliche is left unturned, no stereotype is not brought from the grave, plotlines don’t turn left or right they chunder onwards to the final scene where even in terms of nauseating feel-good Hollywood endings for the emotionally-challenged they go some. You expect everybody to give each other a PC Telly Tubby-style Big Hug.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a diatribe against American thinking, merely the mince that you get when you cater for the lowest denominator – ie money.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by J. Kazmierski on June 2, 2010 - 7:53 am
If it’s possible for a movie to be any worse, I don’t know how. Oh, that’s right… LOVE ACTUALLY!
This meandering, pointless hodgepodge of unsympathetic and amoral characters in unbelieveable settings is a complete waste of time and film. And what was the ending about, anyway? Hugh and Andie agree to “not be married” for the rest of their lives? So, like, they’re gonna just shack up for life? We all know that works soooooo well… see Hugh’s non-marriage to Liz Hurley for details.
One star, but only because I can’t give it zero.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Gary on June 2, 2010 - 8:02 am
As my mother once had to be cut from a car wreck due to another vehicle’s irresponsible driver, I found the opening to this film less than amusing.
Am I behind the times or did anyone else find the fact that MacDowell’s character was prepared to cheat on her fiance the night before her marriage repellent? Likewise, Grant’s character’s acceptance of this as perfectly normal behaviour? We are meant to go on finding these two promiscuous wretches cute. MacDowell then has the nerve to blame her husband for the failure of her marriage. Cringe.
I also find it odd that a gay man would want to give a speech in church when the ‘good’ book has hardly been welcoming towards homosexuality. The film then gets terribly maudlin over the fact that this man believes his life is no more because he will never meet another fat, loud, hairy man again. Er….
Now, before you say this review smacks of someone whose got out out of the wrong side of the bed this morning and hasn’t had any lurve or sack action since we went decimal, I’d just like to say I have no bed and you can always pay for it. A clergy man in Acton once told me.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on June 2, 2010 - 8:47 am
This movie had a few cute lines in the beginning, but than it dragged. This movie was not worth it.
Rating: 1 / 5