Morning Glory? No, Boring Glory.

 

Oh how many times shall we explore the difficulties of being a woman with a big  job in a big city who meets a handsome man to intended comedic effect?

I guess they were trying to make a comedy here. It isn’t funny. It isn’t clever. It’s paint by numbers with finger paints and two colors. Rachel McAdams is the lead. I’ve never thought of her as any great actress and her obnoxious overacting in this didn’t improve my impression. McAdams plays the earnest and hard-working (oh she knows how to blow up her bangs and shuffle through a news room!) Becky Fuller, hired to captain a sinking ship of a morning show on the IBS network. IBS? I’m sure the writers thought of Irritable Bowel Syndrome at some point in the process and then made the choice to stick with this for their fictional network. Interesting choice.

Harrison Ford the actor accepted millions to appear in an inane movie where he plays a veteran news anchor who assumes a position as a host of an inane morning show in order to receive millions of dollars. Talk about art imitating life. His performance is a one-note grumbling and if I had this script to work with I’d be grumbling too. His co-host is played by Diane Keaton. To call her character one-dimensional is too generous by half. The problem with the film really is two-fold; it lacks any sense of comedic timing and isn’t a bit honest. It doesn’t even try to be interesting. The “editor” of this pic must have been drunk, it drones on and on and on.

I went with my wife and mother-in-law, two women who usually eat up rom-com pablum by the shovelfuls. They too were bored to death.

It opened in 5th place at the box office, about a $15 million cumulative take so far. It cost $40 million plus. I hope this discourages future Morning Glories, but I’m afraid this brand of excrement will be around as long as the little light flickers in the back of a dark room.

The preview below  is dreadful, but not nearly as bad as the movie because it doesn’t kill two hours of your life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9lWUqraDoU