YMMV / Notting Hill

• Funny Moments:
  • "Hi, guys — oh, holy fuck!!"
  • Bernie not recognizing who Anna is at first.
    Bella: [after Anna's gone into the bathroom] Quickly, quickly, tell us how you got a date with Anna Scott?
    Bernie: Anna Scott? The movie star?
    Max and Bella: Shhh!
    Bernie: Oh, God. Oh, goddy God.
  • All of William's friends screaming after he and Anna have left Honey's birthday party.
    William: [as Anna reacts] Sorry, they always do that when I leave the house. Stupid thing. I hate it.
  • All of Spike's first date t-shirts.
  • "There's something wrong with this yoghurt." "It's not yogurt. It's mayonnaise." "Oh. There we are, then." He continues to eat it.
  • William climbing over the fence.
    • In the above scene, William saying "Whoopsidaises" when he falls and Anna laughing at his word choice.
  • Spike: "Just going to the kitchen to get some food, then I'm going to tell you a story that will make your balls shrink to the size of raisins."
  • Spike encountering the reporters outside his front door and posing for photographs in his underpants, followed by him checking himself over in a mirror.
    Spike: How did I look? Not bad, not at all bad! Well-chosen briefs, I'd say. Chicks love grey. Nice, firm, buttocks!
• Heartwarming Moments: The ending montage showing Anna and Will's lives together after finally getting together.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • So, the child actress William interviews in the movie will grow up to be Marissa Cooper...
  • Clarke Peters is another actor from the film William interviews.
  • Dylan Moran is in a bookshop, only this time he's stealing the books rather than selling them.
• Tear Jerker: The song that bookends the movie - "She", sung here by Elvis Costello.
  She who always seemed so happy in a crowd
  Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
  No one's allowed to see them when they cry
• Values Resonance: The movie gives some insight about how celebrities' lives are treated as fuel for tabloid sales without much consideration for said people's feelings and wish for privacy, and it's particularly telling that it's set in 1999, as the next decade is particularly infamous for celebrity "scandals" that were not said people's fault, nor anyone else's business (Vanessa Hudgens's leaked underage nudes, Britney Spears's mental breakdown, Paris Hilton's sex tape). Also Anna's status as "World's Sexiest Woman" fills her with insecurities because after all she's doesn't feel like a goddess, just an ordinary woman.
• Wheelchair Woobie: Subverted. How Bella got into the wheelchair is a sad story and you feel especially bad for her once you learn she and her husband can't conceive, but she's perfectly self-assured and one of the movie's strongest females.

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