Are all movie critics leopard lovers or have they simply been copying each others homework recently. The question arises because without fail each and every film review of Two Weeks Notice includes the phrase "it's hardly Bringing Up Bay" in reference to the Howard Hawk's classic about a man, a woman and a pet leopard called Baby. I've even done it here. However since Two Weeks Notice features no big cats of any description and has a plot so different to Bringing Up Baby that even a topologist would struggle to find similarities why is the comparison made? Time for Mulder and Scully perhaps.
Two Weeks Notice follows the protracted romantic beginnings of the relationship between rich developer airhead Hugh Grant and committed lawyer and moral rights campaigner Sandra Bullock as circumstances end up making them the unlikiest couple since, well, the last romantic comedy you saw. Hugh Grant has lost the floppy fringe and Sandra Bullock dresses as a hippy for half the film, but apart from that it is business as usual for the two stars.
Despite execution so flawless the film could have been produced by laser surgery there simply aren't enough good jokes to sustain Two Weeks Notice. Everyone involved clearly saw the script as the kind of film that they ought to be doing for their careers right now, like Grant and Bullock have great indie credentials anyway, but no-one seems to have taken responsibility for actually making the film amusing for a viewer to watch.
Fans of Grant and Bullock will doubtless enjoy themselves and there is enough charm, style and good looks to fill out a years worth of fashion magazines. However the end results are more diverting than engaging. Maybe all the reviewers out there are right, it's good but it is hardly Bringing Up Baby. Now if an angry lion suddenly appeared half way through the film...