FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

lindarctica Honestly, there aren't many movies from my homecountry that i like, and if i hate one genre; it's sappy romances. This romance is however far from sappy! It uses humor, a grounded Dutch view on every topic, a good dose of sillyness and compelling characters to deliver a heartwarming story, full of important messages. Some cliché, some aren't, and some are plain in-your-face. The use of the Dutch famous holiday Sinterklaas makes it a movie that can be enjoyed with the whole family, although it is riddled with (sometimes not so) subtles innuendo's. There are a few things that maybe confuse foreign viewers, like what the Sinterklaas holiday actually is about. (no it's not santa clause) and little references to Dutch celebrity culture here and there.

Cha A wonderful film showing a bunch of crappy characters, a nonsense storyline that tries to imitate Shortcuts, with very easy and convenient relations between the characters, highly improbable, with hints of racism spread a bit everywhere, bathing in this soup of forced laughs and unrealistic events. The writer of this film has probably never lived a love story or lived in the real world at all. This film looks like a mixture of all the Walt Disney movies put together, in high speed, and the result is an absurd shitty movie.First: How nice it is that the man who runs the funeral home where the dead Santa is brought is also the lost son of the new Santa ? And that the young 16 year old guy who works on the parade for the dead Santa is also at the funeral home on the day of the funeral, but for his own dead father, and meets the daughter of dead Santa who's 3 times his age and tells her upfront that he wants to have sex with her ? What on earth did the writer think?? An really, a Prince can stop a plane while it's accelerating to take off ? Cheap humor, unrealistic characters, events, the worst plot ever... 1 star is actually generous.

chrichtonsworld The reviewers that loved this movie must have been involved in making this movie. Because I honestly can say that this is by far the worst Dutch movie I have ever seen! To compare this movie to "Love Actually" is an insult. Only the last 20 minutes had me entertained a bit. There is nothing clever about the script. The different story lines never get interesting. The acting is not bad. But Carice van Houten who was superb in "Zwartboek (Blackbook)" doesn't convince. The actors can't be blamed for this. It is the director who does a poor job. The actors don't get enough screen time to make the scenes interesting. Just when a scene does spark interest the director cuts to another storyline. This way it is really hard to care for the characters. The fact that some characters are likable is purely to their own merit. This movie is supposed to be about relationships. But sometimes it is very hard to make out what the relationships are and what actually the problems are in those relationships. Most of the problems depicted are superficial and never show any depth. I was expecting at least some matters that were recognizable. In my opinion "Alles is liefde" tries too hard to be sophisticated,while it's not. Apart from the last 20 minutes this movie is boring as hell. What on earth were they thinking when they decided to produce a movie like this? Absolute waste of time!

Niels Colorful, touching, and very funny! This can be considered as a Dutch version of Love Actually (even the fonts of the credit titles are similar), which is a big compliment to Love Actually. As the stories and situations here are very Dutch (including gay marriage and a vehicle carefully locked to a bridge), I think this film will move Dutch viewers more than the British version did. I know I wanted to cry at the end, but I was there with my girlfriend. Super performances of the all-star cast, all playing the roles they do best. And the movie shows Amsterdam from its most wonderful side as well! The movie does raise a worrying question though: what will we do when He really dies? My suggestion: we ask Gijs Scholten van Aschat. Any other candidates?Try to avoid the trailer, which spoils some surprises.