Agree. I was invited to watch Love Actually by my wife only recently and hadn’t seen it before. I detested it. Much like Four Weddings & A Funeral and other similar British films, its characters seem utterly soulless, materialistic, and self-absorbed without the self-awareness to embrace those qualities (like a lot of American yuppie snobs or poseur arrivistes will). I came away from it feeling like I’d been bitten by a vampire and had my soul sucked out. Totally dreadful film (IMHO of course…)!

I can’t speak to anything about the way Britain or England are today, having only visited for a couple of days fifteen years ago, and I’m sure the movie is a cartoonish exaggeration, but if it is only a bit accurate, it seems to be a terribly vapid and depressing place, at least for the bourgeoisie, who seem obsessed with carrying on as “proper” well-to-do “English” people from a 1920s Burberry catalog while being constantly reminded that they will never actually in the “the club” of the historical gentry/aristocracy. This movie made me queasy.