Shockingly bad, Shockingly Sexist

Rating: 3/10 (28 August 2018)

I have always heard good things about this film but I just watched it today. It's one of the most grating and unfunny romantic comedies I have seen. I don't know if it is a British thing or what but the entire film revolves around Jones embarrassing herself again and again to diminishing returns. I started to cringe at the jokes 5 minutes in and I didn't stop until the film ended.
Romantic comedies are usually vaguely sexist but the office "romance" stuff was appalling. Every woman character is harassed and the subplot with the mother comes across like the harassment is just desserts. I'm aware the Hugh Grant's character isn't meant to be likable per se and they made meta jokes about it being harassment but post #metoo a lot of this crap cross into the not funny because awful behavior department. This movie has aged very, very poorly.
I don't recommend this film to anyone.