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Summary: Sandra Bullock Doesn't Go Unnoticed in "Weeks"
Review: In the new romantic comedy "Two Weeks Notice," Sandra Bullock plays Lucy, a very busy attorney with no free time whatsoever. After getting tired of her self-centered boss George (Hugh Grant), she decides to call it quits. As she searches for her own replacement, George thinks he may have feelings for Lucy. The movie is very funny with witty dialogue and slapstick humor. Sandra Bullock is funny, charming, and very fun to watch. She and Hugh have great chemistry. It's kind of romance-flick, but the frequent humor makes it smooth and successful, and definitely noticeable.
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Summary: What the hell movie did you guys watch?
Review: I dont know what movie you guys watched but it wasnt the the HG/SB version of Two Weeks Notice. This was a great movie. Plot driven? No. But full of clever on liners and a blossoming affection between George and Lucy thats adorable and infectious. My girlfriend and i still do the "I find you...annoying." line once in a while. Just the other day as a matter of fact. I even watch it occasionally when shes not around. Norah Jones does a great cameo and Georges eccentricities, coupled with Lucy's everything is a cause mindset, is great. They're so opposite its wonderful.
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Summary: My GOD!!! Have none of you ever been in love???
Review: I'm shocked by the reviews I'm reading of this film! I must say, anyone who's ever been in love with someone, particularly if that person is your best friend, in addition to being your worst enemy, this film will SPEAK to you.I won't lie that this film falls victim to the formulaic conventions of most romatic-comedies, but the screenwriter presents the characters in such a way that you forgive it all. Both of the primary characters are entirely sympathetic in all aspects, even the rich, handsome, bastardly Grant. At the end, you adore Bullock for much the reason Grant does. Despite her nerosies and non-sense, her heart is in the right place. And while Grant's character is less-sympathetic, you truly regard him as an unwitting villian... one by way of creation, rather than one by way of nature. Ultimately, it's a story for adults and an adult love... the sort that smacks you in the face, just when you think that you're too old to fall victim to emotion versus rationale. The scene where they pick through one another's lunches speaks volumes to any person who's ever loved someone they hated. How could you love someone who loves beets? Maybe because they love beets when you don't. I recommend this film highly for anyone looking for a good laugh and sporadic cry on a Friday night. Overall, lovely, brilliant performances... and a script worth lauding, if for nothing else, because it makes such frustrating characters so entirely human.
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Summary: Much funnier than I expected
Review: I am no fan of nancy-boy Hugh Grant, so the only reason I see his movies is when women get me in a headlock. Having said that, I also must say I found this movie hysterical. Grant's character offers quip after guip; Bullock is also funnier than I expected. Is it anything great? No. But even if you're not a fan of Grant (which means if you're a guy), you'll still find this one very much worth seeing.
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Summary: Serviceable
Review: There's not an ounce of surprise in Two Weeks Notice, and I don't understand how the Amazon reviewer could say otherwise. Two gorgeous people completely ill-suited for each other find love while the rich...(here Amazon has inexplicably censored something I said factually about the plot, in what is perhaps an oversensitive bit of compassion for the pitiful plight of the unimaginably wealthy)...--Hugh Grant in a brilliant bit of casting, who would EVER have thought he could have played this part--gets a lesson in morals from clumsy/feisty/uptight Sandra Bullock--how COULD anyone have ever thought SHE'D play against type like this, having done so much Shakespeare?--while Bullock's frost gets thawed by Grant. If you didn't know by the tenth minute into the film this was coming, you need to check your pulse, you may already be brain dead. Even so, it's not a bad movie, and Bullock and Grant have their charm. But as far as I'm concerned, that charm is the only reason to see the film, which is nothing more or less than serviceable.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I love this movie. It has great chemistry between Sandra and Hugh. The script is witty, with talented actors (especially Hugh) to make it believable. I laughed through the entire movie. I highly recommend this movie if you have never seen it. It's refreshing and fun.
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Summary: A big rip-off of time and money
Review: I like Sandra Bullock and I like Hugh Grant but this movie was TERRIBLE! The makers of this movie should be ashamed of themselves for accepting movie viewers' money. I don't even understand why anyone would bother making a movie with the script they had to work with. It was TERRIBLE!
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Summary: Ok, for a romantic comedy
Review: Let me get a little personal bias out of the way right up front - I don't like romantic comedies as a movie genre. In fact I can't think of a single decent one off hand. They are overwhelmingly unoriginal, unfunny, and unromantic star vehicles that fail to even accomplish their stated goal and contribute nothing to the world of film. So the fact that I don't hate this film says something I suppose.
A movie like this plays heavily on the audiences existing belief that opposites attract in order to make the unlikely romantic connection more plausible. I don't know how true this common belief is in reality - I suspect it is not as successful as the saying would have us believe. Plus it creates plenty of good comedic situations when the two opposites interact.
Hugh Grant is pretty much a lock with female audiences - every punch line he delivered got a strong response from the audience no matter how lame. The film establishes early on that Grant's character is really a good guy deep down but is unduly controlled by his older brother - a convenient excuse.
I find Bullock fairly believable in her slightly novel role as a grittier, career driven leading lady. It first emerged in Miss Congeniality in which Bullock plays a tough as nails FBI agent working undercover as a beauty pageant contestant. However her character creates what I would call a critical plot flaw in Two Weeks. The film would have us believe she is a class leading Harvard lawyer - yet she hesitantly accepts Grants deal to work for him on the condition that his company spare her beloved community center from the wrecking ball. She writes an air tight employment contract that is so strong she cannot find a way out of it when she needs to - and at the same time fails to lock in the only thing she really cares about in the condition that the community center be saved. Have the standards at the vaunted Harvard Law fallen so low?
A little bit of trivia: Coney Island is also the setting of one of my favorite films Requiem for a Dream. Sandra Bullock reminisces about the old neighborhood at one point and mentions an old couple, the Goldfarbs. Sarah Goldfarb was a lead character in Requiem and I'm guessing this is more than just a coincidence. Also in Requiem, director Aronofsky recalls in the director commentary that the famous and historic Thunderbolt rollercoaster was bulldozed in the middle of the night by a wrecking crew on the orders of then mayor Rudy Giuliani during his "cleanin up NY phase" in an attempt to avoid any such protests. It was replaced with a parking garage. This lends some credibility to Bullock's struggle to save the buildings around Coney Island. You will notice the distinct lack of rollercoaster in Two Weeks.
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Summary: Basically, just another rom com
Review:
(Contains one possible spoiler to the end of the movie - but it's so predictable you'll see it coming anyway and it won't spoil the movie. But just in case, you've been forewarned.)
For a short period of time, it looked that Hugh Grant had left behind his usual fumbling, bumbling, floppy-haired Englishman routine. There was "Bridget Jone's Diary", where he showed a darker side. And then "About a Boy", which gave him an edgy role and replaced his floppy-haired look with a cool spikey one. Now, unfortunately, the bumbling fool is back!
As for Sandra Bullock. She is a good actress, and very loveable. Her intelligence held together many weak movies, most notably "The Net". But since her breakthrough in "Speed" back in 1994 almost a decade has passed, and she hasn't changed. She's refusing to extend her range, and continues to pick bad roles in bad movies (the awful "Miss Congeniality" and the dire "Murder by Numbers" to name but a few).
And here we find these two actors joining together for a very formulaic rom com, i.e. romantic comedy, that has no originality or style. This movie has been done several times before - and, sadly, better.
Apart from some changes in character names and basic situations, it is indistinguishable from many others in this genre. Boy meets girl/girl meets boy. They can't stand each other. Then they move apart. Then they realise they're crazy about each other.
Predictable times one hundred, and even the subplot of Alicia Witt's character thrown in to make Bullock realise she loves Grant and is jealous, is too weak to give any bite or spark to the dull proceedings. The same is true of the subplot of the building to be demolished - Grant wants to knock it down, Bullock wants to save it. Sound familiar? Then watch (Tom) Hanks and (Meg) Ryan in "You've Got Mail".
All the usual elements are here, including the end (this is the so-called SPOILER) where Bullock runs after Grant, they make a slight sexual innuendo joke, kiss - the movie's over. The best friend who is married and comforts Bullock. The afformentioned rival (and a very weak one at that) for Grant's affections, Witt. The disapproving parents. The poor versus the rich. And finally the slapstick comedy. I will give the movie credit for having one or two good laughs (but really considering its length that's pretty pathetic) - but that's it. We're supposed to laugh everytime Bullock's clumsy character falls down or walks into something. This particular brand of humour seems to have started with Julia Roberts back in "My Best Friend's Wedding". There's even more, but see for yourself - or rather don't bother...
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Summary: Great Legs!
Review: I would like to see Sandra in a bikini movie! Like a
hawaii movie or something like that. Great movie! Beautiful Eyes! Hott BOD!! Show that BODY Sandra! Me and my mother watch her movies over and over all the time. Marry me Sandra! : )
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