Number Rolled: 75
Movie Name/Year: How
to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Length: 115
minutes
Rating: PG-13
Director: Donald
Petrie
Writer: Michele
Alexander, Jeannie Long, Kristen Buckley, Brian Regan, Burr Steers
Actors: Kate
Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas
Lennon, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow, Robert Klein, Bebe Neuwirth
I hate when this happens. On Wednesday I watched and blogged
on “She’s All That.” And, look, I’ve randomly rolled for it again! Ok, so “How
to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” is pretty much the same movie, without the ugly
duckling part, for a slightly older audience and with different actors.
This movie stars Kate Hudson as Andie Anderson, a writer who
wants more than the ‘How To’ column she’s writing, for a fashion magazine.
After witnessing a friend go through a very predictable break-up, she pitches
the idea to write a story on how to lose a guy in ten days. Meanwhile, Matthew
McConaughey, playing Ben Barry, is trying to land a huge diamond deal at his
advertising agency and he’ll get the deal if he can make a girl fall in love
with him by the day of his company’s party.
If you don’t already know the ending to this movie from the
above blurb, then you’ve never watched a chick flick in your life.
It’s got nearly the EXACT recipe of “She’s All That,” but I
feel like they accomplished the goal a touch better. Seemed a little less
forced, or maybe it was because it was aimed at my demographic and I ate it up,
whichever.
I am a fan of Kate Hudson and I don’t outright hate Matthew
McConaughey. However, I do have the same problem with McConaughey that I have
with Katherine Heigl. As well as he does it, most of the time, he has only one
character. He’ll play in a hundred different movies, but it’s really the same
character over and over and over again. I’m not saying he’s a terrible actor,
but he’s definitely a specialist and it keeps me from being over impressed with
any of his work.
Overall Opinion – 3/5
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