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Two Weeks Notice

Starring: Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock
Director: Marc Lawrence
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2002
Rating: 2 / 5

Reviewed by Guest Scribe Legend

For a romantic comedy, Two Weeks Notice is wildly short on both romance and comedy. There is very little comedy, simply some moments which are tepidly amusing. Certainly nothing you will talk about once the film ends. Without crowd-pleasers like Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock, this might be simply unsalvageable, but both have an undeniable charisma that carries this thin movie along.

The characters Grant and Bullock play might have been invented in a chemistry lab for all they are worth. Take Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping, add a heavy dose of her character from Miss Congeniality and there you have Lucy Kelson. If you had not guessed — unappreciated, klutzy, yearning, yet endearing. Here she takes on the added trait of being a liberal poverty lawyer with strong convictions, happy with working for Legal Aid despite her Harvard diploma.

And then there’s old Hugh Grant, or is it that guy from Nine Months with two spoons of Notting Hill? Yes, you know him – the foppish British fellow. Here, as George Wade, he’s a lothario billionaire. And, of course, he hires Ms. Kelson as chief counsel of his multi-million dollar corporation, which she accepts in hopes of furthering her political agenda from the inside out.

Besides the predictable romantic tension and some romantic opposition provided by Alicia Witt, whose character is nothing more than a one-dimensional plot device, nothing really happens before the film hits its destined happy ending tied up nice with a bow. Several of Grant’s and Bullock’s movies in a similar vein to this are strikingly better than this, rendering Two Weeks Notice quite pointless. However, it is not a stinker. File this in the rentable category if you wish to be mildly entertained for a few hours.

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Certification: Rated PG-13.
Running Time: 100 minutes.

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