Waste of time

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Worth seeing for the various scenes of Camden in the late Nineties. Apart from that I found almost impossible to relate to anything that was happening on the screen. Affairs are started, continued and/or abandoned on a whim. The characters have all the depth of a very shallow puddle and generally are extremely difficult to care for. In a sense, it's understandable they do sleep around: their partners' personalities are so uniform, what makes it possible to discriminate between one or the other?A marginally interesting side is that, watching it today, it has a time capsule aspects. No cell phones, no social media: everything is dealt with in person. I missed that kind of youth by just a handful of years, having come of age slightly later. I envy them a little.

Could just as well have been titled "This Month's Love", the characters here being as fickle as they are. Very early on things get predictable; it's obvious the newly-weds would hook up at the end again, and it was obvious that everyone would get to screw everyone else. There is nothing wrong with a (romantic) comedy/drama of this kind, and a typical 90s British one at that (i.e. not too original), but when it professes to be a movie about love that's when things start to get ridiculous. The cheated-upon groom gives a speech about love at the end that is a scene straight out of the most formulaic Hollywood piece of crap imaginable. He talks about love and forgiveness – but it has nothing to do with the real world! Forgiveness is all well and fine, but how are we supposed to take McCormack's character seriously? She cheats on her man with his best friend/best man, days before the wedding, and we're supposed to root for them to hook up again. Does he really believe such women can be this likable? In what kind of a world of twisted morals does the writer dwell in? Does he engage in orgies? Is he a swinger? It'd be alright if this were an all-out comedy, but there is little to take too seriously here, like McCormack becoming a lesbian (ha-ha…), the absurd transformation of the comic-book nerd (and why the suicide attempt? suddenly it was heavy drama!… huh??), and even the comparatively tiny – but very silly – detail about McCormack being stuck in London because she can't get a cab for Heathrow. (What about the damn subway?! There's a direct line to the friggin' airport!) The acting and dialogues are not bad, the characters are relatively fun, but by half-time the film has used up most of the stuff in its limited bag of tricks, and it even becomes hard to follow who has screwed whom, and who'll be next. (It helps to take notes.) As far as the comedy is concerned, there is barely anything that should have you laughing here. You might grin 2-3 times but that's about it.

found this film by mistake and wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised, a real gem of a movie. Cathy Burke singing was a surprise and she wasn't that bad, The characters were realistic and I know the area well so can attest to this, happy endings were not mandatory in this film which makes it more poignant. Could imagine another film with these characters being made five years down the line and still holding our interest. Dougray Scott was surprisingly attractive even with greasy hair, he showed a good understanding of the character. All in all the actors in this film showed why British film-making is up there with the best.

Well, I have read other comments less than flattering but my wife and I loved it. I don't care about the coincidences and any small contrivances, the characters were so well portrayed that by the end I knew them all personally and could relate them to people in my past. Don't get picky, do you want more of this or more 'You've got Mail'? I know what I prefer.