Utterly Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2007)

You know in a Hugh grant movie in the first 30 seconds whether he believes in the script or is just going through the motions to make money. In this film he is clearly doing the latter.
Not only is the premise lame (don't we think that an 80's pop star is a little unlikely to be Oxford Educated, eloquent, witty, well read, bright and if he was....that his only career after music would be....oh, singing his old songs at an amusement park ?), but the script and acting are dreadful.
The editing is also a joke. In 2 separate scenes the microphone was clearly visible in the top of the frame. People in the cinema were laughing because as Drew and Hugh walk down a Manhattan street there is a grey fluffy microphone between them pointing at whoever was speaking.
I think the editor realizing this was a bust gave up and could not be bothered to edit out the errors......what a pity that Hugh Grant didn't take a similar path and avoid this miserable excuse for a movie.