On Red Nose Day …

Yesterday was “Red Nose Day”, a day of events and activities organised to raise money for charity and in the UK this day is organised on behalf of the non-profit organisation Comic Relief, which uses comedy to raise money for disadvantaged people. The writer and director of Love Actually (2013), Richard Curtis, is the co-founder of Comic Relief and he decided to get the cast back together to create a fifteen-minute sequel called Red Nose Day Actually, which was aired on NBC – the American broadcast television network – yesterday even if the short-film sequel had already premiered on the BBC on 24^th March , as Red Nose Day is celebrated on different days in both countries. This time the film has premiered on TV and not at the cinema but apparently that´s not the main difference between the 2003 Christmas romcom and Red Nose Day Actually as most reviews seem to point out that the new film is quite weak in comparison with the 2003 box office smash; nevertheless, the goal of this film wasn´t to get laughs but to help people and that is also the point that all reviewers have made.

Did you enjoy watching Love Actually in 2013? Would you like to watch the sequel to the story of Love Actually? How do you feel about sequels in general? What´s good and not so good about them?