Love Actually Review: I hate romantic comedies. I detest them. You can list the actors I avoid watching: Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Richard Gere, Julia Roberts. Romantic comedies make me cringe and I avoid them like the plague so you can imagine the foul mood I was in when I was forced to watch this film.
And the introductory voice-over by Hugh Grant as we watch an airport full of people hugging made me want to commit an act of violence – either against the people who forced me to watch this film or against myself just to end the torture.
Then the most unbelievably shocking thing happened. Bill Nighy and Gregor Fischer came on screen, mocking one of the most hated love songs in Britain, “Love is all Around” and I found myself getting sucked into the film.