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Two Weeks Notice (2002)

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Reviews Counted:118

Fresh:49

Rotten:69

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: Though Two Weeks Notice has nothing new to add to the crowded genre, Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock make the movie a pleasant, if predictable, sit.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $93,241,161

Synopsis: Millionaire George Wade (HUGH GRANT) doesn’t make a move without Lucy Kelson (SANDRA BULLOCK), his multi-tasking Chief Counsel at the Wade Corporation. A brilliant attorney with a strategic mind,... Millionaire George Wade (HUGH GRANT) doesn’t make a move without Lucy Kelson (SANDRA BULLOCK), his multi-tasking Chief Counsel at the Wade Corporation. A brilliant attorney with a strategic mind, she also has an ulcer and doesn’t get much sleep. It’s not the job that’s getting to her. It’s George. Smart, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard-trained lawyer – and can barely choose a tie without her help. Now, after five years of calling the shots, on everything from his clothes to his divorce settlements, Lucy Kelson is giving her two weeks notice. Although George makes it difficult for Lucy to leave the Wade Corporation, he finally agrees to let her go – but only if she finds her own replacement. After a challenging search, she hires an ambitious young lawyer (ALICIA WITT) with an obvious eye on her wealthy new boss. Finally free of George and his 24-hour requests, Lucy is ready to change course and join her devoted boyfriend (MARK FEUERSTEIN) on an adventure at sea. Or is she? Confronted with the fact that Lucy is literally sailing out of his life, George faces a decision of his own: is it ever too late to say “I love you”? -- © 2002 Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey

Starring: Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Heather Burns, David Haig

Director: Marc Lawrence

Director: Marc Lawrence
Screenwriter: Marc Lawrence
Producer: Sandra Bullock
Composer: John Powell
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Bad news: Donald Trump is in Two Weeks Notice, and he's not even the most annoying thing in the movie.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
12/20/02
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Some day, Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant will make a perfectly charming romantic comedy together. Until then, we have Two Weeks Notice, to remind us that bad things can happen to good ideas.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
12/20/02
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

Decent, but innocuous and offering nary a surprise or unexpected plot or character development, this romantic comedy doesn't possess enough of either obligatory element to appeal to anyone beyond diehard aficionados of the genre.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
12/20/02
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

wo Weeks Notice is very much a movie that rides on its co-stars, but it rides nicely.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/20/02
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

The film is more perky than actually funny.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
12/20/02
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Two Weeks Notice isn't a bad movie; it's just such an automatic, cruise-control flick that it's hard to generate excitement.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
12/20/02
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

The laughs don't come fast and furious; they drop in like long-lost relatives.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
12/20/02
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

It's so muddily written, you'll get lost in silly jokes about building projects and tofu cheesecake.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
12/20/02
Kim Morgan
Kim Morgan
Oregonian

The romance is shoehorned into the final 20 minutes, as if it were a contractual obligation.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
12/20/02
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

Feels like three. But Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock have some wonderful moments together, as the airhead boss and the drudge who becomes a swan.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
12/20/02
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

A romantic comedy so vague and sadly undernourished that it makes one of Nora Ephron's low-cal strawberry sodas seem as tempting as a Philip Barry feast.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
12/20/02
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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What seems like a dream team on paper is more of a tedious nightmare on celluloid, where Bullock and Grant are trapped with their well-worn screen personas in a dumb, ultra-predictable movie.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
12/20/02
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

The resulting film has warmth rather than spark, but that ultimately doesn't matter. Two Weeks Notice is an enjoyable bit -- fluffy, silly and fine for the season.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
12/20/02
Jackie Loohauis
Jackie Loohauis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Not even Grant's shoulders are broad enough to lift a scattershot script that defies explanation in any sort of linear way.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
12/20/02
Connie Ogle
Connie Ogle
Miami Herald

A romantic comedy that's both funny and warmhearted.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
12/20/02
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

While the ending is a foregone conclusion, the journey is more clever than cute.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
12/20/02
David Frese
David Frese
Kansas City Star

Bullock and Grant are such masters of romantic comedy, they make falling in love with them, if not their characters, effortless, fun and rewarding.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
12/20/02
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Jam! Movies

Bullock and Grant are perfectly paired in Two Weeks Notice. The script allows the two actors to be at their comedic best, even though the film as a whole is amateurish in many ways.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
12/20/02
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

Though Bullock and Grant more than pass their chemistry test, Two Weeks Notice isn't much of a movie.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
12/20/02
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail

I'd watch these two together again in a New York minute.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
12/20/02
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
 
 
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