How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
Review by Clint Morris
 We’ve
seen the one about the guy who makes a bet that he can make
anyone into that year’s prom queen while ultimately falling
for his target.
And we’ve seen the one about the guy that pays the school’s
prize catch into going out with him in an effort to boost
his popularity.
But you haven’t seen the one that How to Lose a Guy
in Ten Days has to offer.
Andie (Kate Hudson, looking ever so like her mum Goldie Hawn)
is a columnist for a woman's magazine who is assigned to write
a first-person account of "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
She's to select a guy and then do all the things women do
that hypothetically turn guys off - call him continually,
overwhelm him, re-do his apartment, crash his poker games,
make him leave a basketball game just before the end of the
last quarter and give his member an off-puttingly girly name.
Ben (Matthew McConaughey) is a slick advertising executive,
convinced that he can make any woman fall in love with him.
To prove it he accepts a bet from his boss (Robert Klein)
that within ten days he can make a new acquaintance fall head
over heels for his charms, and in exchange his superior will
hand him a lucrative new account to handle.
Not surprisingly, Andie and Ben come together. And, even
though it starts under false pretences, it actually leads
to true-blue, gooey, ardent, want-to-grow-old-with-you love.
A modest romantic comedy, which puts a new spin on those
'Bet' comedies, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days is an
absolute delight.
From its opening chat-up line to its final win-me-over speech,
it combines the tried and tested (and formulaic) rom-com template
with some new-fangled twists, turns and even side-splitting
laughs. It’s the fact that it’s different though,
that’ll win the sceptics over.
Hudson gives a riotous – not unlike Goldie Hawn –
performance as the determined-to-be annoying Andie, while
McConaughey has the charming hunk role personalised throughout.
Together they generate some luminous chemistry, and not to
mention some grand comical moments.
With its bubbly cutout, enigmatic performers and colourfully
enjoyable soundtrack, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
might just be the best new romantic comedy in some time.
3.5 out of 5
How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
Australian release: Thursday April 17th
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael
Michele, Shalom Harlow, Robert Klein, Bebe Neuwirth.
Director: Donald Petrie.
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