Did You Hear About the Morgans?

General feeling:

Pure and total crap.

I understand some people watch stupid romcoms and enjoy them. I know for some people it's a total guilty pleasure for them to turn off their brain and watch a cliché ridden formulaic piece of crap... who am I to judge? I like ninja movies.

I gave up on romcoms for good after trying to watch Sandra Bullock's "The Proposal" because a friend (you know who you are) suggested it. It was a mess: there was the Mexican character who was the stripper, the dude who worked at the store, AND the Priest (that craaazy Mexican!), the eagle that flies down and takes her cellphone, then the eagle steals the dog... hilarity ensues. I promised myself no more, but I actually felt like it would be silly for me to do a blog on female representation in movies and avoid the romcoms (movies made for  sold to women) so I cued up a free one online (I'm not paying for this shit) and watched it one lazy night while Mr. Reviewer played XBOX.

"Did You Hear About the Morgans?" a movie where Sarah Jessica Parker plays Carrie Bradshaw Meryl Morgan and Hugh Grant plays Hugh Grant Paul Morgan.

 
Female Representation:

Meryl is neurotic, she's baby crazy, successful, and a huge over-sharer who loves New York.
I was happy to see Peggy from Mad Men [Elisabeth Moss] playing Jackie Drake. Jackie, Meryl's assistant, is also, unsurprisingly, a neurotic character who's incredibly bossy.

Meryl is completely incapable of remaining calm and must be placated by her soon to be ex husband Paul. Seeing as Paul is played by Hugh Grant he obviously has a charming forced and annoying quip at the end of every frickin sentence. But he's the one who convinces Meryl to leave New York instead of being murdered. Thank goodness he does though, otherwise Meryl would be completely incapable of doing anything without freaking out... oh wait, she spends most of the movie freaking out. Luckily there's some rednecks cowboys to help them out in their new quaint and stupid town.
Unfortunately Jackie's character does something stupid and almost gets the Morgan's killed but luckily Paul bravely saves them both with help from the cowboy's. sigh... it really is that bad.

Weirdly there's also a character who does three jobs like the craaaazy Mexican in "The Proposal" but she's a dumb blond instead of a craaazy Mexican.

I realize this Carrie Bradshaw type character is a type of female who exists out there in the world, the high maintenance hot mess (the romcom regular), but where are all the leads that reflect the rest of the women (the low-medium maintenance folks). I guess chicks like me don't make as many opportunities for easy gags... if only I found those gags funny.

To be fair this movie makes EVERYONE look stupid.

Grade: facepalm