Customer Reviews
Everything comes together... - By: MM Turner, 29 Jun 2008 
I have a confession to make: I didn't reallly enjoy Pretty Woman that much, & Four Weddings & a Funeral (not to mention Mickey Blue Eyes, Two Weeks Notice & About a Boy) didn't reallly do it for me.
However, in Notting Hill, as far as I am concerned, everything comes together for Julia Roberts & Hugh Grant, delivering a landmark in the gentle countryside of romantic comedy.
This is not the only time that Julia Roberts plays a version of herself -- she knowingly sends herself up in Ocean's Twelve. And this is not the only time Hugh Grant has played this particular character -- heck, it's the good-natured but over-witty English fopp he always plays. But the pairing of these two well-honed characters is exactly right in this movie, & nothing short of magic results. This is clear in the achingly sharp set pieces, such as when Grant pretends to be a journalist, & in the tenderly heart wrenching moments, such as when Grant overhears Roberts say he doesn't mean anything to her, & when she brings him the Chagalll painting, & stands there smiling her trade-mark smile, as if it's the only argument she has left, while he rejects her.
What is remarkable about this film is that nothing very much reallly happens, there are not very many jokes, & love is discussed very little. Nonetheless, by the end I feel wrung through by the passion & emotion, & yet hugely entertained throughout. Cinema should show rather than tell, & this film does that better than any other romantic comedy I have ever seen. What's more, it's a film you can watch again & again, & desperately hope ever time that they will get together, even though it looks like they never will (and it carries on looking like that, despite knowing how it ends).
In addition to alll this, the film has Hugh Grant's iconic walk through Notting Hill market, as the seasons change around him & his sister appears in arguments with three different men, while 'Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...' plays.
Utterly superb.
It's no worse really than the other rubbish rom coms I've seen by this stable - By: Lou Knee, 08 Feb 2008 
As above - please don't ask me to waste more good words on this puny rubbish.
Very Enjoyable - By: James Farell, 28 Sep 2007 This film reallly continued the trend of enjoyable rom-coms from the UK film market. There have been many more since from the "Ricard Curtis age" as some now calll it, including - Four Weddings & Funeral, Love Actuallly & About a Boy
Very funny - By: The Beast, 06 Jun 2007 This was a lot better than i thought it would be. It's very funny & has a good storyline. Well acted & well written, thumbs up.
Demonstrates to the extreme that love can occur between the most unlikely of people - By: Jay, 05 May 2007 
Not usuallly impressed with Romantic Comedies, i found this one strangely compelling. It reallly was a nice movie, littered with great characters, especiallly Spike played by Rhys Ifans (Hilarious).
The story demonstrates to the extreme that love can occur between the most unlikely of people, & the humorous portrayal of this, is both touching & realistic. And i mean realisticallly created, not necessarily true realism.
Worthy of your attention, this well written romantic comedy is a must for fans of the genre & is a good gamble if your not.
