5.0 out of 5 stars
What the hell movie did you guys watch?, July 9 2004
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This review is from: Two Weeks Notice (Widescreen) (DVD)
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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4.0 out of 5 stars
My GOD!!! Have none of you ever been in love???, July 1 2004
This review is from: Two Weeks Notice (Widescreen) (DVD)
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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1.0 out of 5 stars
Shouldn't a comedy be funny?, Jun 3 2004
This review is from: Two Weeks Notice (Widescreen) (DVD)
I am very surprised by all the good reviews here for this film. I sat there waiting for something to happen, but for the entire thing it was just unfunny. I cared nothing about the characters played by Bullock and Grant. I went in hoping that it would be the caliber of writing of someone like Richard Curtis on Notting Hill or Love Actually (two terrific Hugh Grant films), but this was just a complete waste of time where you want those hours of your life back. I noticed Bullock's name as a producer. I hope this doesn't mean she fudged with the script to make it "funny" in her mind. (Anybody remember when actress Kim Basinger complained that the writer of the script for her film Marrying Man had no conception of comedy and she decided to rewrite it? The writer she was complaining about was Neil Simon.)
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