Horrible watch. (if you really want to see if, wait for it to go cable)

Rating: 3/10 (2 March 2007)

I went to this movie with extremely high expectations. I'm a big romcom buff and I loved hugh's movies in general. I was expecting a really big comeback. This movie, I think is safe to say, one of the worst written movies in Hollywood history. What started out as an insanely clever idea of an 80's icon trying to make a return, suffered incredible horrid writing. Lots of weird things like, why she was acting weird at the beginning of the movie, her being a germ-o-phobe, why she didn't confront that guy she hated, in addition to many other problem and plot loopholes, completely destroyed what could've become a brilliant romcom. Drew Berrymore is a horrible actress who should stick to silly kung-fu movies. She was cute at the beginning of her career but is just getting progressively worse in each and every movie she does. Plus, I think that everybody's willing to give her second chances given her ET role and she's using that. I think hugh grant's performance was really good, but he needed a good supporting actress to complement his own acting. You cant build a movie around one single event except if you know how it'll progress, and in this movie, they don't know how it progress, they just fill it with lame jokes and sentences like..."that song was dinner"..oh god! what kind of writing is this? I personally was compelled to leave the movie after half an hour but stayed to watch how they'll completely ruin a movie that I really was hoping could cheer me up.
Finally, I just have to say that I thought the songs were really really good. This is the only upside of the movie...the soundtrack!