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the most surpising thing about watching this movie was the absolute hysterics that it sent my father and friend (male, 40s) into. they found it thoroughly amusing, while I sat staring at the screen with a blank, seen-it-all-before look on my face. Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore doing romantic comedy - nothing new. young ingenue spoiled pop star - seen it done better (Anna Farris in Lost in Translation, Michelle Trachtenberg as Celeste on Six Feet Under). tv actors as sidekicks agent and sister cheapened the whole thing. Campbell Scott provided an all-too-brief flash of real acting. the movie wasn't really painful, but it wasn't much of anything else either.