Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Continuing with my romantic comedy theme, I also spent time watching Did You Hear About the Morgans with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker this weekend. Unfortunately this movie wasn't very good at all. I was disappointed because I like Hugh Grant, but the main problem with this movie lies in the fact that he and Parker weren't really believable as a couple. There wasn't really any chemistry between them and I didn't believe that they were ever really a married couple. As a result you are not really invested in their story and by the end don't really care if they end up together. The plot itself is pretty weak. The busy New York ex-couple witnesses murder and they must soon be placed under the witness protection program, sending them to a small town in Wyoming. Here we are introduced to a multitude of stereotypical small town characters. They are all simple, gun toting republicans who directly contrast to the city couple. Most of the humor in the movie is supposed to come from the contrast between the Grant and Parker couple and the rest of the small town characters such as the married couple they live with. Parker is a member of PETA and a vegetarian, while the woman they live with loves to hunt and makes hearty them a hearty breakfast will sausage and bacon. This Manhattan couple is also alarmed by the clean air, nature, and stars in this small town. The whole theme of the city folk trying to deal with living in the small town has been done before and in this movie its not really effective. I could tell the scenes and lines that were supposed to be funny, but they didn't really work. I do appreciate the fact that Hugh Grant plays the same character in every movie as he just sits there being charming and makes sarcastic comments throughout every scene.