WORST romantic comedy I've ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (14 February 2007)

For goodness sakes. I guess there's this memo out that says when an actor really 'makes it', he or she can cease making an effort to make a nominally-decent script work. Hugh and Drew, who I normally love, just didn't have clearly developed or devised characters, and heck, they didn't seem to care about it. Sophie (played by Drew) was supposed to be a New York neurotic-cum-brilliant writer, but I soo didn't buy it. Hugh, as Alex Fletcher, was meant to be the usual doddering, stuttering English guy (think Notting Hill, Love, Actually) but in those films he had additional characteristics which made him lovable. In this one, you can't be sure who and what he's meant to be (is he nice? is he mean? WHAT'S Going' ON HERE??). He was just so freaking average, as was she, that it was just plain implausible that one could actually be enamored of the other. Also, their jokes, which were already weak, were poorly timed! Not all blame is on the actors, however. The director, editor, and script-writers certainly played a part. Editing was in general poorly done, ruining the fluidity of each scene, ruining further those already-horrible gag lines. And the director could've made a couple suggestions to his actors, like, for instance, telling them to ACT! Also, these possible villains were introduced (Sloane for Sophie's character, Colin for Hugh's) but were put to little or no use. Last, the movie was ABOUT music and lyrics, but the music and lyrics devised for the movie were impossibly un-catchy, impossibly BAD! The movie's only saving grace, if I am to be kind, is that '3rd-rock from the sun' actress. And perhaps that Pop-Up video homage at the end. But remember-- that means you have to sit through the whole thing to see a two minute golden nugget. In a nutshell, people-- don't see this film, unless you want to waste your money and be supremely disappointed! Doesn't work as a V-day flick or couple-thing or formulaic cutesy film or anything at all! Me and my boyfriend wasted our date and 25 pounds (think fifty dollars) on this crud.