Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Jackson Booth-Millard I recognised the poster with the kissed frog, and there were some good people in it, so I wasn't going to dismiss it even if it is not as good as I hoped it would be. Basically a group of thirty-somethings flit around Camden Town swapping partners in search of love, lust and life. The stories include the marriage Danny (Primeval's Douglas Henshall) and Hannah (Catherine McCormack) ending after half an hour when his affair is revealed. Hannah leaves the reception, gets drunk, and beds artist Cameron (Enigma's Dougray Scott). Danny meanwhile is having almost a fling with Cameron's friend, struggling singer Mary (Kathy Burke). There is also the story of the relationship between comic book fan Liam (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone's Ian Hart) and Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), who almost can't seem to get away from each other. Also starring Emily Woof as Alice, Sophie Okonedo as Denise and Goodnight Mister Tom's Annabelle Apsion as the Speed Dating Hostess. For me, this film is interest is mainly with the Burke and Hart characters. Good!

phiggins Compared to its subsequent b****rd offspring ("Elephant Juice" and "Born Romantic") this is a faultless masterpiece. Is it really enough to get a few admittedly very good actors together, get them to do a few mildly funny, mildly touching scenes and then edit it all together? Perhaps it would be if this film didn't have ideas above its station. I'm all for having characters who are f*cked-up and mentally disturbed, but how dare the makers of "This Year's Love" introduce just such a character (Liam, played by Ian Hart) and have him involved with all the main female characters in the movie and then just remove him from the story when they can no longer think of what to do with him? This is insulting and offensive. The balanced, "normal" people are all okay, so that's all that matters. Disgraceful. Liam is the only one of the characters who can't cope with all this bed-hopping, being dumped, falling in and out of love and all the rest of it. Yes, all his girlfriends in this film deserve better, but what about him? Who cares? Clearly not the makers of this half-hearted film.There are pleasures to be had - Dougray Scott is excellent as the serial womaniser and complete git. His scene with Sophie towards the end ("Yes - meeeee!") is great. And Sophie has a superb monologue directed at the hapless Liam ("coming faster than a speeding bullet") which ends with her son waving "Bye Bye" to him. A fine scene. Henshall and McCormack are also good as ever. Though I wish someone would explain to London film-makers that people who work on supermarket tills rarely if ever get taxis from Camden to Heathrow. It would have been much funnier to show her getting on the tube and being endlessly frustrated at delays, crowds, breakdowns, broken escalators. See the end of Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" for details of how this sort of scene can be done. Kathy Burke is, of course, superb. For some inexplicable reason, however, the band she plays in is fronted by the ever-loathsome David Gray. The scene where she takes centre stage is hilarious as Mister Gray fights to hog the limelight, waving his head about and thrashing his acoustic for all it's worth - thankfully the film-makers seem quite aware of how vile he is, and track in to the lovely kathy, forcing him out of the frame. Well done.There are worse ways to spend two hours of your life (actually going to Camden, for example) but this film could have been so much better. Then again, on the evidence of the follow-up, "Born Romantic", they could also do a whole lot worse.

Ronne For me, this film was lifted by the performances of Ian Harte and Kathy Burke. Both of these actors have had interesting careers in which they've not always made the right choices and here the film would be a much slighter thing without them. Ian Harte is absolutely outstanding - you see him disintegrate before your eyes while Kathy Burke's self-hatred must resonate with many women. It makes a change to see a London that a lot of Brits would recognise with geography that makes sense (apart from the taxi to Heathrow from Camden perhaps?). For all I enjoyed films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, it's nice to see the country I actually live in represented more realistically on screen.

Millais 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.