Something Borrowed (2011)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 96
In spite of solid performances from Kate Hudson and John Krasinski, Something Borrowed is an unpleasant misfire that lives down to its title.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 32
In spite of solid performances from Kate Hudson and John Krasinski, Something Borrowed is an unpleasant misfire that lives down to its title.
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Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a talented attorney at a top New York law firm, a generous and loyal friend, and, unhappily, still single-as her engaged best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson) is constantly reminding her. But after celebrating her 30th birthday, perpetual good girl Rachel unexpectedly ends up in the arms of the guy she's had a crush on since law school, Dex (Colin Egglesfield)...who just happens to be Darcy's fiancé. As one thing leads to another in the frantic weeks leading up to Darcy's
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Cast
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Kate Hudson
Darcy -
Ginnifer Goodwin
Rachel -
John Krasinski
Ethan -
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Steve Howey
Marcus -
Ashley Williams
Claire -
Geoffrey Pierson
Dexter Thaler Sr. -
Jill Eikenberry
Bridget Thaler -
Jonathan Epstein
Professor Zigman -
Leia Thompson
Bridal Consultant -
Sarah Baldwin
June -
Mark Lamura
Marcus's Dad -
Lindsay Ryan
Salesgirl -
Kirsten Day
Pretty Brunette -
Christopher Peuler
Husband -
Herb Lieberz
Cabbie #1 -
Jimmy Palumbo
Cabbie #2 -
Mary O'Rourke
Fallen Angel -
Marina Hirschfeld
Club Girl -
Tim Dunavant
Bartender -
Neil Poyner
NYU Law Student -
P.T. Walkley
Lead Singer -
Scott Hollingsworth
Band Member -
Nicky Kulund
Band Member -
Jared Schlemovitz
Band Member
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All Critics (113) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (96) | DVD (4)
The movie is merely a joke-stoked soap opera; its bare-bones plot leaves the characters unrealized and the situations undefined.
Top CriticThe film seems to think that we will find something entertaining about Darcy just because she's played by Kate Hudson. It's hard to imagine a worse miscalculation.
The movie strains far too hard to make what Rachel and Dex have done all right, as if their guilty anguish - and the movie's saccharine score - frees us to root for them.
In Something Borrowed, Kate Hudson looks exhausted, as if she is as tired of wading through another one of her feckless duds as we are of watching them.
"Something Borrowed" is something ... ew.
Even if you've got a soft spot for silly rom-coms, know that this one is as empty-headed as it gets.
Chemistry-free casting (Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski) and a flawed premise, not the recipe for a great romance
The work of the lead trio keeps the movie from ever becoming something blue.
No romantic drama has ever been so misguided and eager for you to root against its characters. This tacky, morally abhorrent film is unbearable.
While Something Borrowed obviously wants to explore themes of competitiveness and betrayal in female friendships, it seems to feel compelled to hit pre-programmed chick flick beats at regular intervals.
It's neither romantic nor comedic. Sort of defeats the whole point of the exercise, you know?
You'd have a lot more fun sharing a few Heinekens than wasting your time on this movie in which lies build upon lies until the whole plot comes crashing down.
Prepare to leave feeling something blue.
...a passable romcom that just barely gets the job done...
An intoxicated condition might be the best one in which to watch this terrible movie.
The book was good but the movie is not. Too many unlikable characters without any softening.
It should have borrowed some charm.
As a wedding drama which feels like we've seen it 1,000 times before, Something Borrowed certainly lives up to the 'seen-it-all-before' title.
It's the Transformers of chick-flicks, a brain-stabbing hundred minutes of brutal hurtness.
I was grasping at straws to find anyone in the film that acted like a normal human being with a moral center.
Even though it's chick-flicky with men who are either girly men or brutish clods, Goodwin and Krasinsky (in the Tony Randall role) give good performances.
If you met any of these people in real life, you'd head for the hills; here, we're trapped with them for the duration, and it feels like a season in hell.
Some of the most utterly unlikable characters you've ever met. The exception is Kate Hudson's Darcy, who is completely detestable.
Spineless people slowly falling in love is painless to watch. 'Something Borrowed' now stands as proof of this.
The genre always assumes we'll sympathize with ugly, soulless, personality-free women doing terrible things... But even grading on that rom-com curve, this is a disgusting movie...
It never quite comes together because the appalling behaviour of the three main characters doesn't translate well from page to screen.
Audience Reviews for Something Borrowed
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- Rachel: Wait, don't be nacked.
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- Darcy: If people fell in love based on their similarities, then two of you would be couple.
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- Ethan: I liked you until he came in the picture, I liked you even more!
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- Rachel: The idea of life without him is not only un-bearable , it's un-imaginable.
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- Rachel: Your an a**hole!
- Ethan: Yeah maybe I am. But I am the only a**hole here that gives a s**t about you.
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- Rachel: I just didn't think someone like you could ever like someone like me.
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Decent story and not silly as some of these movies can be , even in spite of Kate Hudson's over the top Darcy.