DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? (2009) ** Sarah Jessica Parker's incredible popular success with her Sex in the City character has pretty much turned me against her. I never liked her much, and I can't stand either the show or the character. Just awful. And having it in the same screen as Hugh Grant (whose amiable awkwardness is most often amusing, but damn near never enough to carry things on its own)...I went in well aware of the extraordinary potential for disaster. But that disaster never happened, largely because Sarah plays closer to the cutesy, oh-so-happy danciness that can be at least somewhat appealing, and Hugh's relatively understated...I mean, they both play the hopelessly overstated character that's the only one I've ever seen either of them play effectively, but they never suggest that they're under any delusion that they're making art for the ages to rival Casablanca or Goodfellas, or even The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie. If they ever get to be a little too much-and they do, I mean that's an integral part of it-Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen are there to ground things in some good ol' Wyoming, gun-lovin' n' totin' common sense. I would have preferred a film about Sam & Mary, most likely, but I know most people wouldn't. In fact, I suspect that Sarah n' Hugh's biggest fans (and I think it's probably the same group-women who want to take care of him, and want to be as much like her as possible whilst they do it) might be disappointed that she didn't orgasm about her clothes and apartment enough or often enough, and his saccharine is a bit on the diluted side. Not me, I was relieved, and I have to say that I enjoyed it.
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