In the past, writer Richard Curtis proved a brilliant writer of witty dialog. But he's not particularly good at constructing funny situations. And he's terrible at building a passable reality or an interesting fantasy. In this movie, which is under his direction as well as his pen, he also proves to be a poor acting coach, an all-thumbs editor, a tonedeaf musical director, and, overall, just, inept.The movie is endlessly pointless. The characters are engaged in nothing serious or funny -- instead these talented people are acting through a suffocating hollywood-like porridge of boiled-down life-crisis moments. The off-target result just makes you wonder where these non-people came from. The movie is not sweet. It's not funny. It offers such badly drawn cartoons of life, that it achieves no mood at all, nothing of which I could approve or disapprove.