Well, I think "Love Actually" and the ones that came afterwards are "special" movies with like 10 different storylines going on at the same time and most of them not related to each other, and I totally get why people don't really like that...

I loved it, though, even though I have to say I enjoyed "Happy New Year" even more... This one is the one I'm watching every year and it has the better/more interesting characters if you ask me :D