Hugh-mongous

Will decides to attend a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself, he meets lonely, bullied schoolboy Marcus and his depressed, music therapist mother. Marcus soon learns Will's secret and blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. The two soon form an unlikely friendship.

Then, from 2003, comes Love Actually where the who’s who of British actors all flocked together to form a series of separate but intertwined love stories. There's the new Hugh Grant shaped Prime Minister who falls for his personal assistant, his sister who finds out that her husband is attracted to his secretary, an author who flees England to escape his unfaithful girlfriend and then falls for his housekeeper who can’t speak English, a man in love with his best friend’s wife, a little kid in love with his classmate and an airport.

The disappointing sequel Bridget Jones Diary, Bridget Jones - Edge Of Reason came out in 2004. Following on from the ending of the first one everything is going well for Bridget and her Mr Darcy until the big panted one buggers it up and an appearance from the one and only Hugh Grant as scoundrel Daniel Cleaver makes matters worse.

That same year Working Title brought us Wimbledon, the story of a pro tennis player (not Hugh Grant) who loses his ambition and falls down the rankings significantly. That is until he meets a young female player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon but could cost her hers. Perhaps Working title thought two wrongs would make a right in 2004. They were wrong of course and if you do buy the box set this is the song you skip on an album.

For £22.99 that’s just over £3 a film, not a bad bargain. So is it worth it? If you’re a bit of a romantic, most of the films in the collection, are great films you can watch over and over again.

The problem is that you probably already have, apart from the last one which isn’t a great loss.