Morning Glory, 3 stars

I am very proud of myself. This is my 8th daily post. Another lovely day in Chicago. I met my friend JB for lunch. We went to an Indian restaurant and ordered the lunch special. Dozens of dishes came and even though we were both hungry and ate heartily, at the end it looked like an anorexic had barely touched the meal.

Afterwards I went to the cinema. Usually I go to the cinema once or twice a week but with my recent travel plans that has not been possible (cue the violins – I didn’t go to the cinema for 3 weeks while I was in Spain). I went to see Morning Glory. I really wanted to like the film – the last film I really liked was Departures a Japanese movie from 2008 but only playing in Cork recently. Morning Glory stars Rachel McAdams as a morning TV show producer who after being fired from her job, gets a new job where Diane Keaton and later Harrison Ford are anchors. It was supposed to be funny and entertaining. I really like Rachel McAdams and have been eagerly watching out for her since her double whammy of The Family Stone and Red Eye – very different movies in which she was really good. She was good as was the rest of the cast. The script was OK but somehow the whole was less than the sum of the parts.

Rachel McAdam’s wardrobe seriously annoyed me – far too often they had her in short tight skirts but this was not as bad as the strapless peach dress she wore to the interview to her dream job. Really, even in the entertainment business nobody is wearing a strappy dress with a cardigan to a job interview.

For the first time since going to see the opera in the cinema, I was the youngest in the cinema by a mile. The cinema was full of pensioners taking advantage of discounted tickets.

I’m giving the move 3 stars out of 5 – not hideous but not brilliant either.