Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 18, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
27
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
19
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostKyle Smith
As for Grant, who hasn't been this sharp since "Love Actually" six years ago, he is once again the prime minister of cute comedy. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
It's a thoroughly delightful throwaway--the kind of movie for which cable television was made, from the maker of "Music & Lyrics" (Marc Lawrence), who knows his way 'round a snappy tune. Read full review
60
VarietyJohn Anderson
But the charm of the film is that it resists turning people into cliches and lets Parker and Grant work their particular magic -- before they get to Wyoming, their performances are as stressed out as their characters, and while it's a dubious conceit that going cowboy is a cure-all, they put the notion across as convincingly as possible. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly Richards
Neither good nor bad. Scales dizzying new heights of okay. Aims for mediocrity... and nails it. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Not even the estimable comic chops of Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker can lift it above the level of ordinary. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are supposed to pass for a married couple, but they have all the chemistry of two actors who just met and shook hands moments before the cameras rolled. They don't even seem to like each other much. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
You should hear instead about Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen, who whip up cowboy fun as married U.S. marshals assigned to protect the pair in Wyoming. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
There are barely enough titter-worthy one-liners in Marc Lawrence's good-natured romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? to prevent it from sinking under the weight of its clichés. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
While the movie isn't "Witness," you know that comic scenes of target practice are going to make sense around the bend. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
What possible reason was there for anyone to make Did You Hear About the Morgans? Or should I say "remake," because this movie has been made and over and over again, and oh, so much better. Read full review
38
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Grant and Parker's talents are wasted on a boring, made-for-TV story punctuated by a contrived, throwaway third act. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Here is a movie with everything going for it and nothing working. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Did You Hear about the Morgans? Yes and, to be perfectly frank, I wish I had been spared the experience. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Given the creator and the cast, "Morgans" is as drearily predictable as a plague of locusts. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Everything about this fish-out-of-water romp is tired. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
The movie's a fish-out-of-water romantic-comedy thriller that forgets to be romantic, comedic or thrilling. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Soporific comedy. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Grant has never been less charming and Parker never less fashionable or more grating than they are as Paul and Meryl Morgan. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
The movie is like a car wreck in which no one is injured but the onlookers. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Grant and Parker stand around as if they're waiting for someone to yell, "Cut.'' He's in one movie. She's in another. Neither is any good. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Sometimes it's unpleasant, sometimes it's insincere, and for long stretches it's boring. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
If you are expecting a pleasant evening of escapism, you will be cruelly fooled. The editor responsible for the trailer is clearly a genius. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
When the material gets really bad, as it does in the dismal Did You Hear About The Morgans?, Grant's pinched facial expressions become an inadvertent commentary on the movie he's making, as if he plainly realizes that his one-liners are tanking. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Did you hear about the Morgans? Trust me, you don't want to. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
A forgettable and lackluster fish-out-of-water rom-com. Read full review
10
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The loping pace, inconsistent tone and lack of imagination are all deadly. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
It's not just the sound of crickets you hear watching this movie. It's the sound of dead crickets. Read full review
0
SalonMary Elizabeth Williams
"Morgans" does bear the distinction of boasting the sourest cast ever assembled outside of a Lars Von Trier production. Read full review
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