Richard Curtis has found a Hugh Grant replicant to star in his daft but sweet film about love and time-travel
Richard Curtis's film is a good-natured fantasy romance of such utterable daftness that it's impossible to dislike. Criticising it is like vivisecting a Labrador puppy. All the traditional Curtis items are in place, including a jolly cast of upper-class folk, a wacky/vulnerable kid sister, characters who go into strange Curtis-speak under pressure ("Oh my arsing God in a box!"), and a Hugh-Grant-replicant leading man: 30-year-old Domhnall Gleeson sounds so much like the young Grant I suspected he'd been dubbed. But there are some nice gags and some ingenious narrative turns in Curtis's well-carpentered screenplay.
Gleeson plays Tim, the shy son of eccentric, well-off parents (Bill Nighy and Lindsay Duncan). At 21, he leaves the family nest in Cornwall to take up his barrister pupillage in London and, yearning for love,...
Richard Curtis's film is a good-natured fantasy romance of such utterable daftness that it's impossible to dislike. Criticising it is like vivisecting a Labrador puppy. All the traditional Curtis items are in place, including a jolly cast of upper-class folk, a wacky/vulnerable kid sister, characters who go into strange Curtis-speak under pressure ("Oh my arsing God in a box!"), and a Hugh-Grant-replicant leading man: 30-year-old Domhnall Gleeson sounds so much like the young Grant I suspected he'd been dubbed. But there are some nice gags and some ingenious narrative turns in Curtis's well-carpentered screenplay.
Gleeson plays Tim, the shy son of eccentric, well-off parents (Bill Nighy and Lindsay Duncan). At 21, he leaves the family nest in Cornwall to take up his barrister pupillage in London and, yearning for love,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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