Admittedly I've only seen it once, so my memory's fuzzy on it, but the thing I found very annoying is that the fact he finds her so irresistible seems so imposed; it's not organic at all. It's so clearly an assignment -- Hugh, go be in love with Andy -- and while he does his best there just doesn't seem to be anything there. It seemed to me to be this blatant flattery of Americans -- we're so irresistible and unconventional that handsome English men are always going to fall in love with us.
Michael Palin's American Friends did it much better.
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Date: 2007-07-12 02:57 pm (UTC)Michael Palin's American Friends did it much better.