Which story lines would you cut?

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Yea the nudes stand ins was the least interesting part do the story. Could've done without.

I would easily cut half of them. Definitely Colin Firth's story - don't remember his character's name, but I thought that was the most contrived and unbelievable, not to mention boring, plotline. I also would cut the body-double couple (don't know their names either, but they added nothing), and Sam (the little boy) chasing after Joanna (the little girl), which was handled in the most predictably cutesy and clichéd manner possible. And thus, since his arc really was only hung on the kids' story, Liam Neeson's story too (I also don't remember his name - note to Richard Curtis: It's a bad sign when someone can't remember your principal characters' names five minutes after watching your movie!). And finally, the Kris Marshall going-to-Wisconsin-to-get-laid story, which seemed like it belonged in a different type of movie altogether.

If Curtis had cut all those plots out, the ones that were left (with Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson/Alan Rickman, and the Keira Knightley triangle), which IMO were the more interesting scenarios, could have been given more screen time and developed with more depth and realism. Although really, I wouldn't have minded if the entire movie had been just about Bill Nighy and his manager, and all the other characters had been eighty-sixed.

Overall I thought this was pretty lame. I really liked the cast, and there were a few moving moments and some genuinely funny lines amid all the dreck, but the end result mostly seemed like brainless and contrived hackwork.

None. In fact I'd work in Francis de la Tour and Anne Reid because they are so great in the out takes.

Colin Firth and Aurealia, Jack & Judy, and Laura Linney and the Brazillian. In that order.