Rating of
3/4
A enjoyable Romance movie
Matthew Brady - wrote on 01/23/15
Anna Scott: "Here sit down. Have some tea, these lots to see".
Notting Hill is about an unassuming, unimportant bookstore owner in Notting Hill becomes friends with Anna Scott, the world's most-loved actress. But as friendship turns to romance, the fame and attention, not to mention an American actor, threaten to destroy their relationship.
Okay I have to be honest here but Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts never stood out to me in they movies. I don't think they terrible actors or anything like that, it's just that they performance in they movies I never thought it was groundbreaking or pure greatness, just okay and nothing else. And now both of them are in Notting Hill and I can positively say that I thought both did pretty good in this movie.
The chemistry between Grant and Roberts was sweet and well written. Yeah it was cliche and I could predict what was going to happen next and normally I hate it when I could predict the relationship and all the drama in a romance movie, but in this it didn't really bother me that much. Because of the great acting and good character development that stopped me from hating the movie completely.
I actually was surprised how much I laughed during this movie. The side characters or the supporting characters to those people would like to say, but anywhere the side characters were pretty damn funny and give a lot of funny lines. Rhys Ifans in this movie was the true comic relief of this movie. He stole every scene he was in.
For problems there only are some: Has I said before about the romance cliche thing and how Grant and Roberts chemistry stopped me hating this, well towards the end of the movie it went so cliche I won't lie I rolled me eyes. The scene that stuck out to be the stick in the mood cliche is towards the end were Grant and Roberts have this big fall out and you see them feel sad and they missing each other but they don't want to admit it, but one of them finds out that he or she was wrong and goes chasing after the girl or men of he or shes dream. That right there is the biggest cliche that still been used today and I don't know why that cliche has to be the worst.
Notting Hill overall may turn people off by the has I said before those annoying cliche but let's put that a side and look at the movie fully. The movie has some good chemistry and good acting. This isn't like any other romance movie out there, and what I mean is that this movie didn't make me mad and that's so rare for me.
