Havasimy

I saw the movie "Love, Actually" last week. I honestly wasn't expecting too much, but I really liked it. As romantic comedies go, it could turn out to be one of my favorites. Maybe because it didn't concentrate on just the Love-at-first-type love. It does have that, in the plot line involving Hugh Grant as the prime minister of England, but it also has long-time-married love, love between a father and son, a child's puppy love, love-despite-a-language-difference love, lust-love, and the love-that-can-never-happen love, just to name a few (or name most of them, actually). There's more than a few storyline here, some could be done with completely, but are entertaining, so I'm glad they were kept. Those are the small plotlines of two stand-in for porn stars who meet on a adult film set and the englishmen who has no luck getting women in his own country and is convinced he'll have alot better luck with American women. The latter is especially great for it's amazing cameos.
Speaking of cameos, Billy Bob Thorton plays the U.S. President as a perfect mix of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (I'm not kidding. If you can't imagine this, see the movie). His hitting on the girl Hugh Grant has a crush on puts that whole plotline in motion and it goes back into standard romantic comedy auto-pilot once he leaves.
The Emma Thompson/Alan Rickman plotline is the slowest, but it makes sense since it's about love at many years of marriage. Rickman's character is a boss who is being pursued by his very aggressive secretary.
The best scenes in the movie are when the old rock star who has been through to much and is too old to not tell the truth is on screen. His scenes, as well as the scene where the love-that-can-never-happen plotline is resolved, were my favorite scenes.
The movie was kinda long, for a comedy, but I wouldn't have removed any of the scenes, so the length isn't a issue.