Like a low-rent breakfast TV presenter, Michell’s latest has a sunny disposition but little behind the eyes. Ford is fine, but it may leave you as irascible as his old-timer.
Aline Brosh McKenna's script isn't a million miles away from her previous career girl story, The Devil Wears Prada
Every one of its cues might be tele-prompted, but this is an assured, likable comedy. Ford is as good as he’s been in ages, but the stand-out is McAdams. If there were any justice, the movie would send her stellar.
It’s the fiery chemistry between Ford and McAdams that is most effective, as these two talented comic performers get a rare opportunity to cut loose.
The film and miss [McAdams] stumble along like mutts taken for a run on a quagmired field.
Dumbed-down vision of TV.
We know where it's all going, of course, but McAdams has never been better while Ford displays excellent comedy timing.
Morning Glory has bags of sardonic charm, a good number of laughs and a great blend of the spiky and the fluffy.
Nothing about the chemistry works here.
While the script wears carpet slippers where it might have been better wielding stilettos, and you can set your watch by how it all plays out, it’s a nicely packaged watch.
Roger Michell's comedy of TV manners seems at first a satire on a dumbed-down medium, then gradually – gruesomely – reveals itself as a celebration of it.
Entertainingly self-aware though Ford's performance is, then, it can't help but leave a bitter aftertaste.
Morning Glory stays firmly on the launchpad, doing increasingly desperate run-ups, but collapsing in a gawky heap whenever it tries to take off.
Instead of a plot, we're given repeated scenes of McAdams's peppiness versus Ford's grumpiness, and a tacked-on romance with a smarmy Patrick Wilson, who acts as if he's doing McAdams a favour by sleeping with her. The film is still a jolly evening out – but you might not remember it the next morning.
Deeply dislikable comedy of embarrassment.
Harrison Ford interview for Morning Glory
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