Morning Glory (critiqued by yours truly)

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Morning Glory is about an aspiring girl, Becky Fuller (McAdams) who lands a job at the fourth best morning show in the country (apparently that's bad). So the show's ratings are falling and this girl comes along and, despite a negative crew including Colleen Peck (Keaton), hires Mike Pomeroy (Ford), the best news anchor ever, to pull everything together.

The trailer makes me happy. It's extremely well put together and timed. I just like it.

The movie, however, was kind of like a movie being made from a commercial. The first half is extremely slow, with a few good moments, but overall molasses-like. About halfway through it turns into what that trailer advertises. It's pretty clear that the writers had planned out this perfect ending, and just couldn't think of the right A to B path.

Oh, and the relationship of the movie? They go through a rough patch in the middle, and if you miss that two minute scene, I'm not kidding, you will not realize that they've broken up. In the next scene, she doesn't appear phased at all, and it happens so suddenly that it hurt my teeth. And that doesn't even make sense.

But, towards the end, there are a few scenes that I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. And the ending is sweet. So, this was not at all a bad movie, but I think it should've been released later...after some more thought on the buildup story.

Rachel McAdams, who is one of my favorites, did great in this one. Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton star in it too, and they're just funny as a duo. They felt real. And I guess that's the best description.

This movie felt real. So there are moments when you want to fall asleep because it's going so slow. There are moments when you laugh so hard that you don't make noise. There are moments when you cry. And there are moments when you have to think about what just happened because it hit you in the face so fast that you can't recall details.

Overall, as a Cheez-It, this movie is 75% Real Cheese. If you're able to walk in at the middle, do that. If you have to leave in the middle, don't go.