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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
Buy this over the vanilla release...
If you're wanting to buy 4 Weddings on DVD, my advice is buy this one. The picture has been remastered to a level which I didn't think was possible when viewing the old release - extremely impressive. Also the sound has been remastered in 5.1, which although doesn't exploit the rear speakers a lot is a DEFINITE improvement over the vanilla. The extras,...
Published on 22 Nov 2005 by oliraceking
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
"There's a sort of greatness to your lateness"
Four Weddings and a Funeral is an extremely funny film. If the opening sequence doesn't make you laugh, nothing will. And conversely, if Matthew's moving rendition of W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks. . ." poem doesn't leave you close to tears, then you must be truly hard-hearted. Unfortunately though, what could have been an excellent comedy has a major...
Published on 21 Jan 2003 by Jennifer Litchfield
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
Buy this over the vanilla release..., 22 Nov 2005
If you're wanting to buy 4 Weddings on DVD, my advice is buy this one. The picture has been remastered to a level which I didn't think was possible when viewing the old release - extremely impressive. Also the sound has been remastered in 5.1, which although doesn't exploit the rear speakers a lot is a DEFINITE improvement over the vanilla.The extras, too, are impressive. You get an interesting group commentary by director Newell, Producer Kenworthy and writer Curtis. Also included are; 2 documentaries, TV promotions, good deleted scenes etc. There's also the short featurette which appeared on the original DVD - so you're not missing out by upgrading. Because DVDs can be bought so cheaply nowadays, my advice is to spend the extra pound or two and buy this - it's worth a thousand more than the old release.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
British Comedy breaks into Hollywood, 4 May 2007
Very funny film with some superb lines. Hugh Grant can be very amusing, and there was a great cameo from Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling, nervous trainee priest who keeps fluffing his lines during one of the weddings. ("Awful wedded wife", or "Holy Goat" for "Holy Ghost"). I also liked David Bower as Charles's deaf brother David, the late Charlotte Coleman as his impudent younger sister Scarlett and Anna Chancellor as his ex-girlfriend Henrietta (also known as Duckface), whose embarrassing emotional incontinence perhaps explains why Charles is so keen to distance himself from his feelings. I was less impressed by Simon Callow as Gareth, loud, extrovert and excessively hearty (like most characters Callow plays).
To sum up, this was a very good film indeed; proof that the British cinema can produce romantic comedies as good as Hollywood at its best.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
A classic in every way, 8 Aug 2005
To the top notch cast, the humour, the wit the shear class that this film still has, it works on simplicity & is one to watch time and again. For the jokes just keep coming.Both Hugh Grant & John Hannah gave two of there best performances to date & the chemistry and friendship between all the characters was so endearing. Well done to all and this is one of the best British films ever and deserves to be!!1
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4 stars, 9 Sep 2003
Four weddings and a funeral has to go down as one of the most enjoyable and most successful British comedy ever. Written by Richard Curtis (Notting Hill) the film follows hopeless Charles (the extremely adorable Hugh Grant) who is forever going to other people’s weddings but is never actually the groom himself. He takes an interest in Carrie (Andie McDowell) who he meets at yet another wedding and through the course of the film they meet at a no. of social gatherings and the audience is left wondering “will they or won’t they get together.”The casting is superb, Hugh Grant as always is charming and indeed very watchable but we can’t forget the supporting cast who play Charles’ friends. The only slight disappointment is Andie McDowell whose performance wasn’t electrifying in the least but the chemistry between her and Grant makes up for that. Extremely funny and in places very moving, inparticular John Hannah’s emotional speech at the funeral. Along with Bridget Jones’ diary this is British comedy at it’s best.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Five Stars and a Big Cheer !!!, 15 Sep 2007
Nearly every British film that EVER comes out is always given the title 'BEST BRITISH FILM EVER MADE', it's embarrassing! Imagine if every American film that came out was tagged with 'Best American film ever made', so why do we Brits do it ? Most of the time, they are not the Best British Film Ever made!!! We do make great films but we do not need to put a tag on the film!!
HOWEVER...Four Weddings and a Funeral definately deserves the title of 'One of the Best British films ever made'.
It is so beautifully written. The cast are absolutely brilliant. So many classic funny lines. John Hannah's speech at the funeral is outstanding. Hugh Grant is so loveable. Simon Callow (loved him in 'Chance in a Million') dancing at the Scottish wedding is so funny. There are so many funny things to mention. When Hugh is stuck in the cupboard whilst the bride and groom are getting 'jiggy' is hilarious!!
I was so sad to hear that Charlotte Coleman (Scarlett) a very talented actress, sadly passed away so young, and I loved her character in the film. I think every Actor/Actress who appeared in the film or anyone involved with this film should be so proud. In the future, people will still be talking about this film. There is nothing fake about it. It's a film about love, its many forms, and how it will find you!!
It's a truly 'feel good factor' film. Richard Curtis put pen to paper and wrote a beautiful classic comedy that will be loved always. Thank you Mr Curtis.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
"There's a sort of greatness to your lateness", 21 Jan 2003
Four Weddings and a Funeral is an extremely funny film. If the opening sequence doesn't make you laugh, nothing will. And conversely, if Matthew's moving rendition of W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks. . ." poem doesn't leave you close to tears, then you must be truly hard-hearted. Unfortunately though, what could have been an excellent comedy has a major flaw.Charles (Hugh Grant) is a likeable chap whose friends are all getting married, leaving him as a sort of perpetual Best Man. Then American Carrie (Andie MacDowell) enters the picture and causes Charles to reassess his thoughts on marriage. Grant has charisma in spades, but sadly MacDowell does not. In fact, she is perhaps one of the least charismatic actresses ever. Not only that, but the limit of her acting ability seems to be a toothpaste-advertisement-style smile. Fortunately the casting of Charles's motley collection of single friends is excellent, and one can't help thinking he would be better off marrying one of them. The film is almost fly-on-the-wall in its style, which gives it realism and allows it to explore the relationships within the group of friends on an intimate and everyday level. Hence the subtle humour works better than, for example, Rowan Atkinson's very obvious laugh-line attempts as a preacher with a penchant for Spoonerisms. As one character notes, weddings have a habit of blending together in the memory and the director has played on this, creating four weddings that are visually similar and yet distinct. And of one of them is particularly memorable for the fact that it doesn't actually include a marriage ceremony. At its conclusion the film shows that whilst marriage is a noble institution, it is not for everybody.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
My favourite film of all time!, 12 Aug 2002
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This really is my favourite film, which is surprising as I'm not usually one for romantic comedies. Still, I absolutely love this film and would guess that I've watched it about 7 times! Hugh Grant not only looks gorgeous - he is superb in his role as the awkward but entirely lovable Englishman! The rest of the cast is pretty good too, and you can't help but fall in love with the characters of Scarlet (Charlotte Coleman) and Gareth (Simon Callow). Andie MacDowell is the only member of the cast, who I would say was a disappointment - extremely pretty, but her acting was, to put it bluntly, wooden. This, however, is made up for by the rest of the film, which is hilarious at times and very sad at times (the WH Auden poem recital always moves me!)Four Weddings and Funeral is British comedy at it's best - I thouroughly recommend it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A mystery . . ., 26 Oct 2004
I'm very confused that - considering how everyone remembers Four Weddings And A Funeral as such a big film of 1994 - this book seems to be out of print.
On the surface, it just seems like one of those film tie-in reprints of the whole screenplay books you sometimes get but my favourite bits are the little extras. The appendices are great - where else are you going to find out how many different titles they thought up before coming to what you might call the obvious one. I also loved the scripts for the trailers, and the scenes from the cutting room floor.
And to top it all off, there's colour photos everywhere in here. I just can't believe it isn't more readily available.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A cracking British comedy., 3 Feb 2001
This DVD is well worth a look. This film is one of the films of the 90s. And what more it's British.It's a one of those comedies that you can come back to and still find it amusing. Looking back on this film, it is enjoyable and depsite this manages to have a poignant moment with the W H Auden poem in the funeral scene bringing a tear to the eye.Buy this and settle down for a enteraining night.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
As good as the movie, with extra funny bits, 25 April 2001
I've read Richard Curtis's screenplay more times than I've seen the movie and it is easy to see why it was nominated for an academy award. Curtis is one of the few writers whose name on a movie makes it unmissable. Included in this book, subtitled "Three Appendices nad a Screenplay" are inside tales of the evolution of the story and a wonderful rant against Sylvester Stallone (who wrote the screenplay for "Rocky" in only three days). One of the appendices is about the language of the film and how it would need to be changed for American cinemas and American television. This section alone is worth the price of the book, which seems quite reasonable to begin with.
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