Did You Hear About The Morgans? (3/10)

Sometimes I try to be forgiving by checking back on what genre a movie was categorised in just in case by some unknown force that I should be wrong even when it was blatantly clear. Ten minutes into this one, I was contemplating on running into the next screen to watch Universal Soldier: Regeneration.Throughout the hour and a half, I laughed twice, chuckled three times and smiled six times. But the fact that I bothered to count said it all.Hugh Grant used to be charmingly funny. But he's gone from that to weirdly eccentric. His jokes here were lame and unfunny. Most of the time they fell flat. It's as if he couldn't make it work. Sarah Jessica Parker cannot be the star of a movie outside Sex And The City, she just seemed to lack that likeability factor. And there were no chemistry at all between the pair. It started out with Grant looking overly weird and trying too hard, and they never looked like they just got separated three months ago.The director was bad, the writing was bad; but in this case it was both counts to Marc Lawrence. Lawrence, who also wrote and directed Two Weeks Notice and Music And Lyrics; both of which showcased Grant in much better light, seemed to have lost that rapport with Grant. Or perhaps it's Grant who's getting old and redundant? But the editing was also appalling, so much so that the actors looked amateurish. Or perhaps this could be due to the shortcomings of Parker.So, as a romantic comedy, there's very little comedy and barely any romance. Fail on both counts.