McAdams is as obnoxiously perky as the title suggests.
Sigh… I entered this romantic comedy hopeful. I loved Ms. McAdams in WEDDING CRASHERS and MEAN GIRLS – she plays charmingly adorable and Queen Bitch equally well. And MORNING GLORY features acting gods Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton as crusty news folk -- kinda fun, right? Yet in the end, almost nothing works in the film: it now joins the towering trash heap that is Hollywood’s endless litany of generic, corporatized, paint-by-the-numbers “meet cute” pop vehicles.
Rachel McAdams plays the annoyingly perky (much like the film’s title) TV producer Becky Fuller, new top dog for “Daybreak,” the country’s fourth-place national morning news show. As one of her many ratings-booster brainstorms, she hires august anchor Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) to host alongside longtime hostess-diva Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton). But the two instantly go for the other’s jugular off camera, the new format fails to gain ground and ratings plummet even further. So Becky goes into an over-caffeinated tizzy: a Tasmanian Devil whirlwind of madly talking to herself and ripping doorknobs off doors, all intended to charm us, I think. And as she attempts to single-handedly save the show, she must also save her budding romance with another TV producer, hunky Adam Bennett (Patrick Wilson).
McAdams unfortunately does not convince as the executive-producer-of-a-national-morning-show type, whatever that may be. She is just not it. And her utterly irritating persona makes for a weak protagonist to root for. You know her type:- every other rom com features her nowadays: the single, neurotic career woman who, despite being drop dead gorgeous, can’t get a date if her life (or career) depends on it. She’s kinda clumsy and will quickly, desperately fall head over heels (if not literally) for the first man to find her quirks charming. The first time they have sex (after the requisite, contrived obstacle course) causes her to let her hair down both metaphorically and literally. Her clothes become more feminine. Her obsession about her job lessens. This is the way women should be, right? And finding a man was all she needed! Katherine Heigl, Jennifer Aniston, and Drew Barrymore have beamed this lesson at us via the big screen time and again.
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