Certainly not one of 2002's best, but among the better ones (yes, I can't really decide which is better - XXX or Mr. Deeds...) for a year that was sorely lacking anything good in the filmscape. I have to admit The Two Towers would have to be my best of the year, mainly because of Gollum/Smeagol.
I've had it with acrid action-packed, shoot 'em up, mindless violence and gratuitous sex movies with shapely "hot" girls and older, super macho men. I've also had it with in-the-not-so-distant future types as well. Perhaps it's just because I don't get to go out and watch too many movies anymore - but that's just as well as there isn't anything worth watching most of the time.
So...About a Boy was not too bad. Here, we have Hugh Grant walking around doing "nothing" AND trying to get the girl through the movie. The whole thing does tend to sound rather hackneyed but read on. It's about people, and people who are alone in the world, and how they really shouldn't be or aren't because "no man is an island" - despite modern day's conveniences - online shopping, banking, and every form of communication you would ever need to do with a human being now no longer needs to be done in the face of a human being when we have the internet.
Really, we all are "a piece of the continent, a part of the main; and "if a clod" such as Will be washed away, then we are less for it. It's a positive take on life and how something like an adolescent boy (played illuminatingly by Nicholas Hoult) can change the passing of time, and can ultimately change the course of many people's lives for the better. Uplifting and funny.
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