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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Dreary Hugh Grant romcom poses a question not worth answering
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker as the off again/on again Morgans
The first movie in my experience to feature a Sarah Palin joke lends a glimmer of distinction to Did You Hear About the Morgans?, an otherwise excruciating romcom that finds Hugh Grant in tic-laden overdrive, his genuine charm jettisoned somewhere in the onscreen journey from New York to points west. Sarah Jessica Parker is on hand to trundle out her mightily-aggrieved-lover routine that she long ago patented on Sex and the City, but Marc Lawrence's film is probably best saved for those airplane trips that are now upon us where one isn't allowed to do anything but look at the screen. Sometimes, a blank stare is the best response.
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