“How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days” (Paramount Pictures)
Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey make the perfect romantic couple in the new romantic comedy “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.” The plot of the movie is pretty silly but when the leads are this charming, who cares! You can go to this movie, sit back and let your brain operate on idle and still have a good time.
In the film Andie Anderson (Hudson) is the “how to” girl at “Composure Magazine.” To please her editor (Bebe Neuwirth) she agrees to write a column in “How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days.” This means she has to pick a guy and be so obnoxious and clingy that he will tell her to get lost before ten days are up.
The guy she picks is Benjamin Barry (McConaughey), an advertising man who has just made a wager with his boss (Robert Klein) that he can get any girl to fall in love with him in ten days. So without knowing about each other’s bet and deal, these two beautiful people start their campaigns.
This is where Hudson gets a chance to show she is truly Goldie Hawn’s daughter. She affects that giggly, slightly dumb persona that Hawn has naturally. Knowing that she is doing it as part of her plan to turn off this guy makes Andie all the more appealing to the audience.
As Barry, McConaughey has never been more charming. He has every woman in the audience wanting to be in Kate Hudson’s shoes. He looks better than ever and acts with a composed assurance he has not shown in any other film.
The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity and sexual situations.
“How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days” is not a heavy film in any sense of the word. It is pure fluff but fluff well done. It makes “Two Weeks Notice” and “A Guy Thing” look like watered down romance films, which they are. They were just a buildup to the arrival of this little jewel.
Don’t expect too much and you won’t be disappointed. Just go for the charms of Hudson and McConaughey and you will float through the film on a cushion of love and laughs. This film taught me “how to be won over by a movie in two hours.”
I scored “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days” a found 6 out of 10.
©2003 Jackie K. Cooper
