How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 85
Good premise, dull execution.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 23
Good premise, dull execution.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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Two New Yorkers fight the battle of the sexes to a standstill (without entirely realizing it) in this romantic comedy. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, but in the meantime she finds herself writing for a women's magazine called Composure, where her editor Lana Jong (Bebe Neuwirth) has her writing a fluffy advice column. After hearing of the latest dating laments of her relationship-challenged friend Michelle (Kathryn Hahn), Andie sells Lana on the
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Cast
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Kate Hudson
Andie Anderson -
Matthew McConaughey
Benjamin Barry -
Adam Goldberg
Tony -
Michael Michele
Spears -
Shalom Harlow
Green -
Bebe Neuwirth
Lana Jong -
Robert Klein
Phillip Warren -
Kathryn Hahn
Michelle -
Thomas Lennon
Thayer -
Annie Parisse
Jeannie -
Tony Longo
Sensitive Moviegoer -
Liliane Montevecchi
Mrs. DeLauer -
Celia Weston
Glenda -
James Mainprize
Mr. DeLauer -
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All Critics (160) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (89) | DVD (32)
More an exercise in how to lose an audience in 10 minutes.
Top CriticBoth lovers are duplicitous creeps -- in a perverse way they're made for each other.
When a chick flick goes wrong -- and this one hits a dead end in hell -- it's a wipeout.
This tortured premise to get them together and the things they go through, every minute of it just lies flat on the screen.
Isn't as bad as it looks.
Resorts to the kinds of cliches that were so yesterday two weeks ago.
The biggest problem I had with this film was the set-up and premise. It works on paper, but most of the movie is spent with the characters being simply awful.
Battle of the sexes romcom with mature content.
A modest but bubbly comedy of manners. [Blu-ray]
If anything, the extras on this deluxe edition of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days provide further evidence of the links between reading trashy women's magazines and the pursuit of plastic surgery.
...there are a few scenes that are quite charming. It's the in-between stretches that may concern you. (Blu-ray Edition)
...despite reservations about the goofy plot and the cocky characters, the movie proceeds pleasantly enough.
The movie appears to be stocked with nine to five giggly runway models wearing $2,000 outfits, rather than your usual office drudges.
Has just enough substance beneath the surface throw the romantic comedy some much needed freshness.
[McConaughey] and Hudson make the premise, even in its shakier moments, vibrate with a sense of fun.
It's hard to believe that this drivel was based on a book... but Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson make it somewhat tolerable at least.
Kate Hudson's impressive comic flair almost saves this implausible romantic comedy.
Offers nothing new to the genre, but for those who like light tales of meet-cute and happily-ever-after, it'll probably be as welcome as a tub of double-fudge ice cream.
By Cosmo girls, for Cosmo girls. For anyone not living in a material world, chuck this one in the nearest trash receptacle.
Audience Reviews for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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- Andie Anderson: I'm going to make you wish you were dead.
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- Jeannie: Drama, drama, drama.
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- Andie Anderson: l miss you, Benny boo-boo, boo-boo-boo.
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- Andie Anderson: No I didn't Ben, cause you can't lose something you never had!
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This is a typical rom com that offers nothing really new, and is just one of a countless number of films that rehashes cliches, predictability, and fleeting entertainment.
The set up is that we get a woman journalist stuck writing a fluffy advice column who thinks she can write an article about the ways women alienate and drive away the men they love. She sets out to prove this by winning over then losing the heart of a man in a mere ten days.
Meanwhile, we get a businessman competing for an account who tells his boss he's the man for the job because he can understand what makes the fairer sex tick, and sets out to prove this by winning over a lady's heart in less than two weeks.
As you'd expect, these two people cross paths and target one another for their perspective projects...and the results end up going in a completely surprise free direction.
The thing is, I think the initial premise, while flawed, is actually kind of interesting, and in the hands of talented writers and directors, could be done extremely well. Woody Allen (for example) could probably have knocked this out of the park. Unfortunately that doesn't happen, and the result is just typical generic crap.
There's some laughs, but ultimately this is dull, not that funny, and rather forgettable. It sucks that they also got talented people to cash in and squander their abilities, but, considering my knowledge of film, I probably shouldn't be all that shocked.
If you have a thing for mediocre rom coms you'll probably like it. If not, I'd stick with something else.