I wasn't going to see this one. A truly amazing number of people who saw it said things like how nasty Hugh Grant was in it, how different this role was for him, how emotionally wrenching and sad it was, etc. etc.

I passed over it twice in quest of a good light flick to watch during apheresis...but then, last Monday, there I was at the Red Cross, two hours with needles in my arms and I had had no time to get to a video store for a movie...and out of two cabinets of videos, there was only one that I hadn't seen that I had any interest in at all. Yup, you guessed it. So I decided that it was meant to be, bit the bullet and picked it.

And they were all wrong.

This is a typical Hugh Grant movie: footloose and fancy free womanizing batchelor grows up and gets a life, not to mention the woman of his dreams. This one is a little different because he is forced into befriending an extremely outcast 12 year old boy.

That was the only part of the movie that was hard to watch...I was pretty much as wierd as the 12 year old when I was that age, and just as much of an outcast, except that I didn't snap out of it til I hit 16, so he was actually better off than I was. Kinda scary, seeing that.

Otherwise, it's a fun and cute movie, some good supporting actors, not a lot of depth. Oh, and total babe honey Rachel Weisz is in it, very nice eye candy for the last quarter of the film. But this is nothing new for ol' Hugh, pretty much the same as all of his other movies to date.

I did laugh a lot though, many amusing lines and Grant is a pretty funny guy within the limits of 'gormless cutie', which is what he does best.

A pleasant and undemanding evening's entertainment.