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Two Weeks Notice
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy's time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | Fortis Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Sandra Bullock Hugh Grant Dana Ivey Robert Klein Alicia Witt |
Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Blistering performances.
Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) is a Harvard educated community lawyer who stages protests against neighbourhood redevelopments by big business.When she approaches an aristocrat New York property developer George Wade (Hugh Grant) protesting to him not to tear down a local community centre he ends up hiring her as his attorney. Before long she is promoted to chief counsel but finds that self centred George is incapable of making any decision without Lucy's input, night or day.In a fit of pique Lucy gives her two weeks notice and finds that she needs to hire her own replacement but also realises she has feelings for George.The film has little that is romantic or comedy. I saw little evidence as to why Lucy and Wade would get together. Bullock is reduced to doing pratfalls for laughs because she is to be clumsy and off beat as the reason why she is still single. Grant has to rely on his charm rather than anything relating to a characterisation given to him buy a script.When she Lucy hires a replacement, June Carter you get an inkling she is shallow and self serving almost as she is being set up as a token villain who will get in the way of our couple.Even the ending is flimsy as if the writer needed that he had to somehow contrive our two leads to fall in love.
Here's my feel-good, romance-comedy! :-)I had so many laughs, and it's understandable considering Hugh Grant stars in the movie, he's totally perfect for the "careless spender millionaire" role, and Sandra Bullock is amazing in her role "the perfect and idealized lawyer, not interested in the money, but in the community good"; they are the complete opposites, but they manage to create a "symbiosis" - and at one point even change themselves, in order to become a better version of themselves. Not surprisingly, it seems that in all the good love stories, people have to change - love introduces them to a better way of living. Not surprisingly I said, but I should've think twice before I've said it.
Two Weeks Notice is a conventional story done in an unconventional way. The two characters are total opposite and yet, no real clashes happens. The movie even refrained from doing an over exaggerated introduction of them. They both are presented in strong terms, yes, but not over done.If you can't stand easy witty wordy humor like Hugh Grant so charmingly display in this piece, something he excels at, you better not watch it. It's those dialogs that propel this movie forward. He does it in an unpretentious earnest way, which is why Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) ends up working for him.The story is simple, the photography very good, and nothing is out of place. This film doesn't reinvent the genre, but it's a very well built offspring.See it for good entertainment.
Maybe it's because we know what to expect of the two stars, but this film was a disappointment to me. Fans of Grant will find a lot more to enjoy in 'Four Weddings' or 'Notting Hill'; and Bullock-philes will do far better re-watching the wonderful 'While You Were Sleeping'.It's not a terrible film by any means, just not up to the high standards we expect from these two. It also lacks the energy that SB so often brings to the screen with her manic ditzes; energy that someone like Grant feeds off, in that inimitable bewildered fashion of his, in his best outings.Robert Klein and Dana Ivey are very good as the Jewish 'ma and pa lawyer', and Heather Burns (the wonderful Ms. Rhode Island from 'Miss Congeniality') sparkles in the woefully short time she's given on screen, but it's not enough to save a film that could have been so much more from being merely adequate.OK for a rainy day, but both have done much better. 6/10.