Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

There's nothing very good about the movie, except the jokes. Granted, most of them are based on the "how city folks can't handle the country", so, if you just don't like those kind of jokes, they won't appeal to you. But, if you take them for what they are, they are good.The story, the acting, the directing, the pace... all of it is mostly bland and mediocre. But the jokes, while being mostly single-themed, are very diverse in their set-up, punchline-point, execution.Yes, Hugh Grant does seem to just "go through the motions", "doing his thing", but, in many jokes, his performance is "part of the joke". Similar goes for the rest of the cast, though Sarah Jessica Parker does seem to try to do something somewhat specific for this part - unfortunately, she fails to render an interesting performance.Bottom line, it's quite entertaining and worth a watch - unless you simply don't like making fun of city folks in a country setting.

Once there a hundred reviews of a film, I usually don't add my own. But I'm surprised at how low a rating this film gets from so many viewers. I liked it, and I think it's a pretty average romantic comedy. That's not to say it's a perfect film, however.The one problem I had was that the female lead character as a business woman seems too different than the same character as a wife and lover. There does seem to be a mismatch there.Some say the film is predictable. Yes, it is. Of course, I find most films are fairly predictable. What I liked was the cast. I generally like Hugh Grant, and this film was perfect for his rather deadpan sense of humor. I'm not a fan of Sarah Jessica Parker, but I thought she was good here, and I felt that the split personality of her character was the fault of the screen writers. This was also a good role of Sam Elliott; over the years, he has grown on me. And Mary Steenburgen, as Elliott's wife is quite good, and I think she is an underrated actress. For a while I grew tired of Wilford Brimley, but lately I've enjoyed him more.I won't go over the plot here; you can look that up on Google. But while the general plot is rather predictable, the fun is in how the characters get from the beginning of the story to the ending. It held my attention fairly well.

In 'Two Weeks Notice' and especially 'Music and Lyrics' Marc Lawrence and Hugh Grant collaborated to create two above average romantic comedies. However, third time is not the charm.The issue for me with this film is that the idea of city slickers being forced to live in the country has been done many times before...and better. While there are new ideas within this film you can't help but think with the talent involved a more original idea wouldn't have been better.Full credit though to Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker for making the most of the script they were given. OK so they are playing characters that they've played many times elsewhere but it's what we know them for so are prepared to go along with it. While the film is predictable it is also mildly entertaining and well performed - you can't ask for much more than that.Grant remains the king of rom-coms and Lawrence an adapt writer/director. I look forward to their fourth collaboration.

Some movies make you laugh and cheer and wave little plastic flags. Other movies make you tear off the little flags and use the flagpoles to poke your eyes out. Did you hear about the Morgans is definitely among the latter ones. The likeliness of HG and SJP being a couple would equal that of Dharma & Greg but then when Dharma would only speak Chinese and Greg would be deaf and blind. The story is about as exciting as that one episode of sex and the city when New York was covered in a snowstorm, oh wait that was because my TV broke down. My personal theory is that this movie was made to replace water boarding in Guantanamo.