1:30 PM, 27th July, 2003
Basically, this film is exactly the same as any other romantic comedy you've ever seen. Oh ? except this one's got Sandra Bullock in it. Bullock is Lucy Kelson, an idealistic, greenie lawyer with visions of an otherwordly utopia (cough). Her nemesis is her client George Wade (played by that other nobody of the genre, Hugh Grant), who plays an extraordinarily British, feckless, snivelling, bumbling, hyper-irritating... Hugh Grant. Oh, and when they first meet they hate each other. And I think there was a plot there somewhere. When Wade drives Kelson to quit her job, and he hires the ravishing June Carter (Witt), Kelson has seconds thought about her job, and about Wade. There isn't a Nobel Prize for guessing how this works out. So why should you come and see this? The movie isn't really that bad. There are some really big laughs here, people. Come see for the better-than-you'd-expect dialogue, and the lolling sense of plot familiarity that you can only get with a romantic comedy. With the biggest stars and all the right ingredients, it's an absolute must for all the rom-com devotees out there. This is cinematic comfort food, as pure as it comes.
Manuela Tortellini