DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?

“DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?” (Hugh Grant & Sarah Jessica Parker)
Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking – this was a bone thrown to my wife for Valentine’s Day – she went to see ‘The Wolfman’ for me, so I suffered thru this for her.
It wasn’t as awful as the trailer made it appear due to one thing – I hadn’t seen Hugh Grant for a while & so his style of comedic acting didn’t bother me that much, in fact, he was clearly the funniest in the cast. SJP, on the hand, simply needs to stop trying to be funny... she isn’t. Nothing she did or said was even smirk-worthy.

Going thru divorce proceedings because he cheated on her, Mr. Morgan (Grant) is trying to get together with his estranged wife (Parker) to beg her forgiveness & to give their marriage a second chance. After agreeing to have dinner with the cad, the Morgans witness a murder & the killer sees that they’ve seen.
The Morgans are put into the Witness Protection Program & are whisked off to Ray, Wyoming where they bunk up with a husband & wife quartet of Marshalls (Sam Shepherd, his moustache, Mary Steenbergen & her annoying voice)
Then everything you expect to have happen happens. The end.
Like I said, Grant saved this from being horrible by delivering a few funny lines, but I wish someone would tell him that by constantly looking away from the person he’s talking to, his style becomes annoying after a while. But for a guy who peaked several years ago with “About A Boy”, Hugh was a welcomed sign of relief in this particularly bad movie... or maybe it was due to the fact that he seemed humorous because Parker was So Not Funny.
What we have here is another fish(es)-out-of-water story where you just wish the fish get flushed down the toilet as quickly as possible, but then some jerk picks them up & throws them back into the aquarium...