Once the eye candy value wears off, there's precious little left to salvage from this awkward and only mildly diverting genre bender
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02/04/08
Fool's Gold (2008)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:14
Rotten:124
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: With little chemistry among the performers, humorless gags, and a predictable storyline, Fool's Gold fails on every level.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $70,158,206
Synopsis: Having proven themselves a magnetic pair in 2003's HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey team up once again as two fun-loving, bickering exes in this action-packed,... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner
Director: Andy Tennant
Reviews for Fool's Gold
Top CriticFool's gold, indeed.
02/08/08
Top CriticI can't think of anything positive to say about this badly written, over directed adventure in which unbelievable characters move heaven and earth to find long lost treasure.
02/04/08
Top Criticalong the lines of Romancing the Stone or Six Days, Seven Nights... without the old man macking on the lesbian
02/08/08
Fool's Gold really pushes the violence level way out of proportion. It also pushes our level of tolerance for exposition.
02/07/08
A goofy romantic comedy and a clumsy action-adventure collide at sea.
02/15/08
My favorite stars spent three months in a tropical paradise and all I got was this lousy movie.
02/12/08
A bad movie, bad in almost every respect, bad as adventure and bad as romance and bad as comedy. It's really completely bad.
02/12/08
There's more continuity in an episode of Teletubbies.
02/07/08
The film exec who apparently thought that these two were the next Tracy and Hepburn was sadly mistaken. Heck, Matthew and Kate aren't even the new Frankie and Annette.
02/07/08
The tone of Fool's Gold often feels as if Tennant & Co. were straining to create a live-action version of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, from the slapsticky physical humor to the constantly jaunty score.
02/05/08
... the two likable leads sink together in Fool's Gold, a leaden action adventure about treasure hunters.
03/27/08
A movie that manages to be everything -- romantic comedy, adventure film, family melodrama, farce, gangster movie, and history lesson -- and absolutely nothing all at once.
02/07/08
Fool's Gold is a disposable beach paperback of a movie, easy to digest and even easier to forget.
02/07/08
Screen couplings that work are things to be treasured. In that sense, Fool's Gold is as close to the real thing as we've come in a while.
02/08/08
After this bomb, McConaughey's next project should be a reality show called "Pimp My Abs."
02/09/08
Like Tess and Finn, the makers of Fool's Gold are motivated by lucre, not love.
04/18/08
Like its namesake, this one is all glitter.
02/07/08
When I was bored watching it (which is to say often) I thought about admiring the hard work McConaughey did for this picture and how all that work appears to have gone into his abs.
02/08/08
Alas, the nautical romantic comedy constitutes a missed opportunity—a voyage to Red Lobster in a dinghy—mostly thanks to mediocre directing.
02/08/08
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