If you're thinking this all sounds a little predictable, you're right. Screenwriter/director Marc Lawrence and the two stars try to recreate the days of screwball comedy a la Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson/Doris Day or Cary Grant/any number of leading ladies, but it never quite comes together. There are plenty of funny scenes in Two Weeks Notice (such as Lucy's gastric distress in a traffic jam, or her drunken stupor on Wade's yacht), but it's all a little too familiar and episodic to click all the way. Bullock has developed a gift for physical comedy over the years, and it unfortunately doesn't get utilized to full advantage in Two Weeks Notice. The movie's peripheral characters are barely developed at all, lest they take away from the terms that Bullock and Grant operate on.

Among the special features are outtakes that are imbedded in the film (click on a pink heart icon in the corner of the screen to view them) and show a spontaneity that would have been welcome over the movie?s by-the-numbers approach. There are also two deleted scenes (including an alternate ending that would have been fairly extraneous), a mini-documentary, the trailer and giggly commentary by Lawrence, and Grant and Bullock themselves.

Two Weeks Notice is Lawrence's feature-length directorial debut, having written the Bullock vehicle Miss Congeniality and other comedy fare such as the 1999 remake of The-out-of-Towners and Forces of Nature, and TV series like Family Ties. Bullock, on the other hand, has proven to be a fairly shrewd manager of her own career and a dedicated actress; she checked herself into a rehab clinic to bone up for the l2-step drama/comedy 28 Days. Despite a couple of flop movies (The Net, Speed 2: Cruise Control), she has formed her own production company and has been in the producer's chair for several of her own films (including Two Weeks Notice) and currently is executive producer for TV's The George Lopez Show.

Bullock's love affair with Central Texas led her to buy a house in Austin and shoot l998's Hope Floats in the Texas Hill Country (while dating then-boyfriend and Austin musician Bob Schneider).

If a fairly lightweight romantic-comedy vehicle is what you're looking for, Two Weeks Notice should fill the bill nicely. Hugh Grant is undeniably charming in a role that isn't much of a stretch, and Sandra Bullock is a good comic foil. The film's just not earth-shatteringly brilliant, though, or particularly memorable (beyond, perhaps, two weeks).