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25 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
Refreshingly Non-Mushy Romantic Comedy, 7 January 2005

Author: Bill Slocum (slokes@optonline.net) from Norwalk, CT USA

Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant hearken back to classic screwball comedies in a very engaging if somewhat shallow romantic film that accentuates laughter above sentiment and succeeds wonderfully - even when it's not especially witty or gut-busting.

Bullock plays Lucy Kelson, a committed left-wing attorney with an immaculate Ivy League background who fights the good fight against the heartless developers of lower Manhattan and the outer boroughs. Complications ensue when she finds herself working for one such figure, George Wade (Grant) in exchange for his preserving a Coney Island landmark near her childhood home. Wade's not a bad guy, but he's frightfully dependent on Lucy for everything. When it seems possible she might at last get clear of him, she begins to have second thoughts about letting him go.

Two things I really, really like about this movie. One is the chemistry of Grant and Bullock. Bullock takes to being the butt of assorted slapstick with a gusto rare for a gorgeous screen star. She seems to have inherited the Doris Day mantle from Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, though in a better way than either of those two screen stars. It's a pity she's since shown no interest in maintaining it. Grant plays off her very well in a role he could perform in his sleep - and sometimes seems to do just that, albeit in a good way. He has a casual way with a line that reminds me of Roger Moore or David Niven at their best, and shows he is growing comfortably into a solid on-screen presence after years of coasting on looks and charm. If IMDb.com is correct, he got paid $12.5 million for this, which if true is way too high, but he is probably the one guy who could make Wade so enjoyable, to the point where you're happy at his shenanigans for keeping Lucy by his side.

The other thing is the NYC backdrop. There's some eye-popping visuals courtesy of legendary cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, like the bridges lit up like Christmas trees in the background while Bullock has a drunk moment with Grant aboard his yacht. Another scene features a helicopter shot of Manhattan by the Hudson, with a nice nod at 9/11 that doesn't impose itself on the viewer but is there for the noticing. (This was the first film shot in the city after the tragedy.) You can compare "Two Weeks Notice" with classic romantic comedies like "What's Up Doc?" or "Bringing Up Baby." Not that it's as good, but the goal is similar in that it strives to entertain more than play with one's heartstrings.

Alright, the story is shallow. We never really get a sense of Kelson's duties with Wade except when it comes to being pulled out of weddings to pick out ties. Her absentee boyfriend is barely established. The supporting cast is not well developed, except Robert Klein and Dana Ivey as Lucy's parents. (Klein especially is wonderful.) Alicia Witt is spellbindingly gorgeous as Kelton's would-be replacement, and she plays wonderfully off the main pair, but she's suddenly thrust into the role of the heavy simply for plot convenience, and it's jarring. Too many other secondary roles are like that, too.

The script, by director Marc Lawrence, has its share of lame one-liners, but it keeps a steady, merry tempo that distracts from the film's shortcomings at least somewhat while focusing on its key strengths, Bullock and Grant. Lawrence's direction is similarly solid. I like the little bits of business between Bullock and Grant, like when they pick off each others' plates at Fraunces Tavern, or when she refuses his offer of a sidewalk kebob, calling it a "flesh popsicle." The scene that sticks out most is of her at an outdoor party, wearing a lovely tulle gown and a clown nose. This is one film that makes a serious point of being goofy and glamorous all at once, and it works. If all romantic comedies were so committed to being entertaining, it would be a lot easier for us guys to sit through them.

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An enjoyable comedy love story., 14 July 2004
Author: Scaramouche2004 from Coventry, England

I am sick of defending romantic comedies on this site. Every time a new one hits our screens IMDb is absolutely inundated with reviews containing the words, boring and predictable.

Most of the time these reviews are written by people who are just annoyed that nobody was killed or nobody fired a gun or blew up a building or whatever. GROW UP.

This is the last time I'm going to say this but romantic comedies work to a successful formula which have worked well for seventy odd years and that is why they are successful, they are not going to change them and we certainly hope they don't so everyone please stop moaning for heavens sake. Maybe your action movies are a bit "same ol' same ol'" but do we slag them off to you? NO. So CAN IT.

Now my little rant and rave is over onto the film in question.

Sandra Bullock is in my opinion the greatest living comedy actress alive today. She is sexy and gifted and has the perfect talent and timing to easily take over the mantle of stars like Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Katherine Hepburn, Doris Day and more recently Meg Ryan as a true queen of Rom-Com.

It's my opinion that in fifty years time Sandra Bullock will be regarded as a screen great like the great actresses mentioned above. She has the ability to adapt between comedic and dramatic roles with perfect ease making us cry or laugh with equal vigour. I suppose she is almost like a female version of Cary Grant in that respect.

In Two Weeks Notice she is given so much chance to make us laugh and she fails to miss one of them. I especially like the part when she says she can also speak German and Japanese and then turns down an offer using both, followed by one of her rye giggles....hilarious and clever.

Hugh Grant, never really strays too far away from Hugh Grant but again as in the case of Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler this persona is what has made him a star and that is what he successfully does. It seems however that in this film he does it better than in any other film before.

It's a love story between a radical left wing lawyer (Bullock) and a capitalist, heartless tycoon (Grant).

He's been using her for her intellect and she has been using him and his money for her own charitable organizations, but when she decides to quit, the last two weeks sees their relationship change into something neither of them seem to want to part with.

The script is funny and fast paced and both are handed good comedy material to sink their teeth into. Hugh Grant is surrounded by beautiful women throughout the film giving him the opportunity to work his English charm school act, and with another sexy secretary in the picture, Bullock is given her opportunity to spar in her own inimitable way. The schoolyard type fight over the stapler is a great example and gut-wrenchingly funny.

An enjoyable film and one deserving pride of place on any DVD shelf. Incidentally check out the feature commentary between Bullock, Grant and Marc Lawrence. It's very funny and shows that the magic between them poured right off the film and leaked into real life.

As for one of the previous reviewers who referred to Sandra Bullock as FAT, I lay my gauntlet at your feet sir and it's pistols at ten. You may like her acting or loathe her, but fat she ain't.

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Cute!, 1 May 2003

Author: George Parker from Orange County, CA USA

"Two Weeks Notice" tells of the romantic misadventures of a playboy tycoon (Grant) and a "greenie" attorney (Bullock) who can't seem to get along until they finally realize what they can't get along without is each other. On the downside, the film is the usual romcom fare with nothing in particular to distinguish it from a panoply of peers. On the up side, the flick is chock full of Lawrence's humor which made "Miss Congeniality" and "Forces of Nature" so enjoyable. Entertaining stuff worth a look for Bullock or Grant fans and romcom junkies. (B-)

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25 out of 41 people found the following comment useful :-
Very good movie - contrary to other OPINIONS, 17 April 2004

Author: dondoss

I read with amusement the comments of others. I bought this movie on DVD and have got it in my normal rotation (along with others I like). I thought that the pairing of Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock worked very well. I did not enjoy this movie for it's social significance, that's not what I watch movies for. If you enjoy adult humor and can appreciate the nuances then you will find this quite enjoyable. It is Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant at their best. Some of my favorite scenes include the one where Sandra Bullock has eaten too much and has to go to the bathroom while they are stuck on a bridge in New York City. Adding the music "Taking Care Of Business" was really a stroke of genius. The "Bobcat Pretzel" scene was equally funny. The interjection of the appropriate music adds much to the results.

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Just what I expected, and this is a good thing!, 22 December 2002
Author: diswiz from Los Angeles

When you go to see a film like Two Weeks Notice, you shouldn't expect a brilliant academy award worthy story, nor a action packed thriller, or scary horror movie. You expected a, well, chick flick... I use that term as I lack a better one.

With that said, Two Weeks Notice delivers what is expected of it. It has it's one liners, Sandra and Hugh both give good preformances, and its an overall "awww, aint that cute" film.

I do appreciate the atmosphere of Two Weeks Notice, and also state that it is worth the 9.00 dollars to see it, if you know what your looking for... I mean, come on... This is not the next Bond film here!!!

Overall, well made! I'm glad to be able to give this little sucker a:

B+

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surprisingly heartwarming, despite somewhat "formulaic", 31 August 2004

Author: Andre Benas from San Jose, California

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I got this after checking IMDb for the description and did not realize at the time that I had seen it once before. The description on IMDb does not really intimate that there is a romance involved between Bullock and Grant but I'm glad there was, because that was a major point in favor of the movie. You have to admit, someone quitting their job because their boss is treating them like a nanny doesn't exactly sound very interesting.

Bullock has the ability to act a geek very well, but she can also come off like a stone fox; she surprises me. I also noticed in Miss Congeniality how her character was a definite 180 from the standard bimbo routine, and she gave even a more convincing performance in that one. Here, she's very high-strung and if not for her great looks, only somewhat appealing, but then on the boat, in the evening dress, totally charming and graceful.

If you hadn't seen it before, you would never really know that the (two totally opposite) characters were eventually going to fall for each other. I liked that about it.

I really liked the way they used great motown and other music in this movie; it definitely added a lot to its appeal. Each song was relevant to the scene in a cute way too.

The speech that Grant "runs by" her, was great. Don't want to say anything more about it, to avoid a spoiler.

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19 out of 34 people found the following comment useful :-
Charming..., 8 June 2004
Author: SeanSmith from United States

Two Weeks Notice is a charming romantic comedy. Hugh Grant and Sandra

Bullock are perfect for each other. It's about this lawyer who fights for what she believes in. Then she's hired by the very people she is fighting against. This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The writing is wonderful... Using lines like "You are the most selfish person on the planet!!!" "Now that's just silly, have you met everyone on the planet?" Also "Do you know what I like even

better than chess?" "Pokemon?" Those are lines that have such unexpected

answers you can't help but laugh! Best romantic comedy I've seen in a long

time!!

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Screwball romantic comedy isn't dead yet, 23 December 2002
Author: george.schmidt (george.schmidt@hbo.com) from fairview, nj

TWO WEEKS NOTICE (2002) *** Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Dorian Missick, Heather Burns, Jason Antoon. Charming screwball romantic comedy with Bullock as an A-type/neo-hippie cum grass-roots lawyer who finds herself employed by wealthy conglomerate merger type businessman Grant and after attempting to get him to change his ways gives her titular ultimatum only to discover – you got it – they are really meant for one another. The film may be formulaic but its stars have that special, instant and utterly natural chemistry together helped with a crackling zingerfest screenplay by its director Marc Lawrence who manages to make the creaky device work even if its last act is by rote and Witt as Bullock's replacement (in more ways than one) is a pallid shadow of `All About Eve' .

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16 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
Great Notice, 3 January 2003

Author: cochiai-1 (cochiai@wwdb.org) from Pearl City, HI

Writer and first time Director, Marc Lawrence's "Two Weeks Notice" is a charming, smart, and genuinely funny romantic comedy with terrific performances by Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant. This a great movie. Inherent in romantic comedies is a degree of predictibility. "Two Weeks Notice" follows formula, but Lawrence orchestrates enough curves, character insight, and human resonance to make it more than just formula. He also has the great chemistry of Bullock and Grant-- this is their medium.

Sandra Bullock plays Lucy Kelson, a Harvard educated activist lawyer, who is hired by George Wade (Hugh Grant)a handsome, charming, and seemingly shallow multi-millionaire developer. George hires Lucy as chief legal counsel for Wade Corp., for $250 K, because his brother Howard (David Haig), the true captain of Wade Corp., requested George hire an attorney who did not attend Bimbo U. Lucy swallows her idealism and... poverty, because George also promises to protect her parents' community center. Lucy is smart and "not intentionally funny", and soon becomes George's right and left arm-- he can't to anything without her consult. This only amplifies that Lucy has no life or rather any relationships of merit... other than with George. Lucy gives George her Two Weeks Notice. Credit Lawrence and company, when George finally accepts Lucy's resignation, it is crystal regarding the unspoken relationship of the two. Wink. Wink. "Two Weeks" never insults our intelligence, however, it makes us await for an hour and a half.

Along with wit and humor Lawrence, Bullock, and Grant provide a a very human touch that resonates throughout the movie. In a very well done scene on the rooftop of Lucy's parent's New York apartment, Lucy shares with George that she never lived upto her mother's expectations. George says that is different from people "having no expectations". This is where movie transforms beyond the opposites attract story. It makes sense of Lucy's need to be perfect, and the man that George could be that he is well aware of. In it's own light hearted way, "Two Weeks" looks at where you sell out, where do you become a whore (but in a nice way), and where do you take a stand. And taking a stand is never easy... even in a romantic comedy, though it sometimes takes longer.

Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant are magic together. They are both smart and their characters' are also. Grant as George is charming, witty, and playing someone who has honor and substance that are dimissed by all except Lucy (Bullock). Grant is masterful at hinting at a depth of character. Sandra Bullock is beautiful, smart, and funny as Lucy. She also stretches herself when Lucy drunkenly braggs about her sexual prowess-- "bobcat... pretsel thing." Bullock lends compassion and a whacky sensibilty to Lucy who scares men off by being too smart and too perfect, but still not good enough for her mother. Her Lucy only gets a clue when she hires her replacement (a good Alicia Witt)-- she is in love with George. The exchanges between Grant and Bullock are so natural... like conversation, spoken and unspoken.

At one point in the movie, Lucy has a breakfast conversation with her Dad (a goofy and wise Robert Klein). She asks him "What if people don't change?" The point is they will or they don't. Kind of like loving someone is accepting them for who they are and for who they are not. Be open to surprises. Marc Lawrence's "Two Weeks Notice" is an excellent surprise. He along with Bullock and Grant have made a classic romantic comedy and more.

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Two Weeks Notice Deserves two thumbs up, 2 April 2007

Author: mspiggy2010 from United States

If you're looking for a great chick flick to watch while snuggle up to your boyfriend or girlfriend, or just hanging out with the girls, "Two Week Notice" is the perfect movie to watch. The movie keeps you laughing from the witty remarks made every few seconds. It's part mushy chick flick, part comedy, a great combination.

The Movie "Two Weeks Notice" stares Saundra Bullock and Hugh Grant premiered in December of 2002. The movie follows a mix match relationship between a strong willed, "save the community" lawyer named Lucy Kelson, played by Sandra Bullock, and a high status business man, George Wade, played by Hugh Grant. The two in the beginning seem completely different but when Lucy goes to work for George, to keep him from knocking down the neighborhood community center, she realizes how needy he was, and how much she couldn't stand it. When Lucy gives George two weeks notice, George realizes that she is an asset to his company. After much arguing she finally gets out and then they both realize that they've fallen in love with each other. Since they were too stubborn to admit it, it took a huge argument in the employee lounge to get them to let their guards down.

I have seen many movies in my lifetime, but this one is definitely in my top 10. The plot of the movie is easy to follow, and there are no boring scenes due to the wit of both Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant combined.

"Two Weeks Notice" is a great movie to watch when taking a break from life. The movie will keep you laughing, while still being very heart warming. Two Weeks Notice will cause you to want to watch two times over.

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