Trust me you don’t want to.

This movie was badly written. There’s not much else to tell. I came home and saw that metacritic had a score of 27 for it. The wonder is the one or two positive reviews it seems to have picked up. Some reviewers’ lines are quoted below. Check out the metacritic page for the gory list of quotes. Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker try to do their jobs even though they have no lines for half their screen time. It looks like someone took a TV episode and stretched it out to fill a feature length film.

Selected quotes from reviews:

When the material gets really bad, as it does in the dismal Did You Hear About The Morgans?, Grant’s pinched facial expressions become an inadvertent commentary on the movie he’s making, as if he plainly realizes that his one-liners are tanking. (Onion AV Club)

The editor responsible for the trailer is clearly a genius. (Globe and Mail)

Grant and Parker stand around as if they’re waiting for someone to yell, “Cut.’’ (Boston Globe)

PS. The first line of this post is from the Washington Post review.

PPS. Pay attention: the trailer editor is a genius. There are no lines in the movie outside the trailer. It is not a sampler. It is the movie.