Like watching blond eight-year-olds play a game of Clue, Fool’s Gold will have you seriously wondering if it was a film made for adults.
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02/07/08
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
It's going to be dragged through the critical mud because it's not "Atonement."
02/06/08
It would be nice to say that Hudson and McConaughey connect the same way they did in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, but the fitful chemistry from that film has all but evaporated here.
02/06/08
Let's just say that enjoyment, even trashy enjoyment, is not to be sneered at. Boredom, on the other hand, is -- and that's the real crime committed by the dead-in-the-water Fool's Gold.
02/06/08
An unfunny and overlong sea romp.
02/06/08
The movie lost me right from the beginning, when I couldn’t accept any of its plot premises and didn’t believe in any of its characters.
02/06/08
It may glitter, but this certainly isn't gold.
02/06/08
A lumpy, leaden mixture of romantic comedy and adventure that never takes wing.
02/06/08
Aspiring to the effortless fun of a classic screwball comedy, the movie--a showcase for the narcissitic McConaughey and slightly more modest Hudson--is so light, diffuse, and shallow that it literally floats away.
02/06/08
Get ready to heat up February and prepare for another love struck film.
02/06/08
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
This has nothing to offer that we haven't seen before, making it one of those winter offerings that will be long forgotten by the summer.
02/05/08
There is very little chemistry between McConaughey and Hudson, and yet they make another movie together.
02/05/08
Fool's Gold offers small compensation -- a listless romantic comedy that, almost out of desperation, turns a little more violent than necessary near the end.
02/05/08
Top CriticCould have been called How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes.
02/05/08
Ought to come with a warning sign posted in the lobby: no shirt, no shoes, no laughs.
02/04/08
McConaughey's sexy beach bum feeds his obsession for 40 lost chests of gold, while Kate smacks around lots of big, burly men who pretend to be terrified, in this snoozer treasure hunt travelogue.
02/03/08
A trifling slice of winter season counter-programming.
02/03/08
Seek cinematic gold elsewhere.
02/02/08
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