If you cast Hugh Grant as a bumbling, awkward Englishman, and Sarah Jessica Parker as a sassy, fashionable New Yorker, your job's half-done, right? Wrong.
Marc Lawrence's third outing with Hugh Grant (the other two being Music & Lyrics and Two Weeks' Notice) is so utterly unfunny and devoid of any charm that it becomes the fish-out-of-water comedy more literally than hoped for. It sputters, gasps, flails, and then lies there dead.
That you have to sit there and watch this corpse of a film for 100 plus minutes is exactly why you don't let middling directors take free reig....