Starring: Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant.

Written and Directed by: Marc Lawrence

Story; Lucy Kelson (Bullock) is an attorney who has strong ideals. Raised by left wing parents, legal people themselves, Lucy has been fighting environmental issues, for people’s rights and for almost any cause you can name. She graduated from Harvard Law and does “Pro Bono” work. Her greatest adversary at the beginning of the film is the “Wade Corporation”, who plan to build a large condominium/hotel complex at Coney Island, Brooklyn, which is of course where Lucy lives. She is fighting to save the local community centre from destruction. The community centre is of course alongside the proposed building site. Enter George Wade (Grant), who is of course a billionaire, playboy and the exact opposite of our heroine, Lucy. George has been accused by his brother of fouling several property deals, because he only highs Lawyers whom he would sleep with.

Lucy accosts George in the street, protesting about the threatened community centre, but says she will guarantee George wins the site permits for the building proposal, so long as he promises the community centre does not get knocked down. He agrees so long as Lucy comes to work for him. Tough choice for Lucy as she despises everything George stands for, but needless to say in the course of true romantic comedy she does. They work together for a considerable length of time, until George steps on her toes once too often and Lucy gives him two weeks notice.

There is nothing surprising in this script, but romantic comedy is not meant to have bewildering plot twists, it is there for pure entertainment value. Two Weeks Notice is a perfect example of the genre. Some may call this lightweight fluff, but many others will see this as exactly what they need after a hard days work, no thinking required, just sit down and be entertained, not challenged.

Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant would have to be two of the top people doing romatic comedy today. The only others who I think cary this genre of so well would be Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. Mind you Two Weeks Notice is not as cheesy as a lot of romantic comedies I have seen, which is a blessing. I love this lightweight stuff at the right time, and got to see this after storms lost us some roofing and a third of the power to our house. Believe me this was the kind of fluff I needed.

Extras:

There is quite a gamut of features on this disc.

The Audio Commentary: With Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant and Marc Lawrence. Must say this started out as the usual commentary fare. In jokes, pointing out locations and talking about deleted scenes that aren’t included in the deleted scenes, presumably because they were so bad that there was no way we’d get to see them. When the comment came from Hugh Grant that he wondered who watched this stuff and why, I thought “Yep, why?” and switched it off.

Docementary: This is “The Making of Two Weeks Notice”. Not bad as far as this goes and quite a good interview with Sandra Bullock split throught this on the evolvement of the character Lucy and the actual film.

Deleted Scenes: Two scenes deleted from the movie, and whilst they were nice to watch it was fairly obvious why they were cut.

Two Bleeps Notice: This is the blooper reel and consists mostly of Bullock and Grant laughing at the expense of each other. Some of this was even quite funny.

Cast & Crew: The usual credits of the stars and the Direct, together with a list of the other main actors.

Theatrical Trailer: Self explanatory actually.

Overall:

Two Weeks Notice is Romantic Comedy at its best. Lightweight fun from Sandra Bullock (playing Lucy, the Harvard educated lawyer) and Hugh Grant (as George Wade, the property developer billionaire, with no conscience). Just a straight down the line script for romantic comedy, where two people cannot see that the love the person they are closest to.