Did You Hear About The Morgans? D

At this point in their careers Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker can sleepwalk through roles and they often appear to be doing just that in the romantic comedy "Did you hear about the morgans?"

We've seen Grant play the witty english cad, and Parker play the shrill urbane new yorker more times than we can mention. Here they're a highly successful couple that's been separated because of an infidelity and they're on the outs. That is until they witness a murder and are thrust back together into the witness protection program in what seems like the blink of an eye.
You don't go into the movie expecting plausibility. They're soon swooped away, by private jet (hey aren't we in a recession?), to the tiny town of ray wyoming. And we're treated to an endless stream of warmed over smugness and big city folk in the country hijinks. Oh and there's a contract killer out to get them, but that part of the story seems lazy even by these low standards. Hmm, I wonder if there will be a rodeo involved?

The film literally seems to lurch from one Hugh Grant self depricating punchline to the next, and stands there waiting agonizingly for laughs that almost never come. A few of them made me smile, but the silence in the theater was deafening. You know it's bad when you compare a film to "The Great Outdoors" and "The Great Outdoors" starts to look not quite so bad.

"Did You Hear About The Morgans?" D