Elvis-Virtus

'Did you hear about the Morgans' is a romantic comedy movie starring Hugh Grant ( Music and Lyrics, Notting Hill, About a boy) and Sarah Jessica Parker ( Sex and the City). The movie is about a recently separated husband and wife who found themselves in trouble and eventually was forced to stay together in a far secluded country and hoping to spark the gone romance between them while hiding from the bad guys. I saw the movie last week, and i really like Hugh Grant's performance in all of his film, also in this one, his acting approach (which is not caring about his character and not going with the 'being in character' approach) is a welcome sight to movie viewers. By avoiding being in love with character, Hugh can be just Hugh, throw a little bit of sarcasm and joke there and people love it. I'm not a fan of the acting of Sarah Jessica Parker to begin with, and somehow i still see the irritating persona of Carrie Bradshaw here in this movie. Overall, the mixture between the two actors is just awkward and unromantic, thrown in a weak plot and you got a not so good movie here. But some quirky humor from Hugh and Sarah Jessica saved the movie from being a total mess, but some jokes that they told in the film were really lame and failed to make the audience to laugh which is another reason that made the movie not that appealing. And finally the plot was weak and so predictable that after watching the trailer below, i bet you can already guess the whole plot of the movie. As a conclusion, the movie failed to capitalize their actor's appeal by throwing them a weak plot and some really dull lines.

PROS: Hugh is still good ol' Hugh, Some lines are comedic

CONS: Dull lines, Weak Plot, Movie was too long for its genre (2 hours)


RATING: out of 5

Eijan says: SKIP IT

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