Should be retitled How to Lose a Movie in 10 Minutes.
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02/07/03
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:63
Rotten:83
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Good premise, dull execution.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), Composure Magazine's "How-To" columnist, has a very unusual assignment and a quick deadline. She has to write a firsthand account of all the things that women do to... [More]
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Thomas Lennon, Adam Goldberg
Director: Donald Petrie
Reviews for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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02/07/03
A modest Hawn-like romance for a new generation.
02/07/03
A funny premise in search of a movie.
02/07/03
A shrill, unfunny litany of single-folk stereotypes that insults men and women with equal abandon.
02/07/03
Guys, if the gal in your life insists that you take her to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, don't panic. If she really wanted to dump you, she'd insist on Deliver Us From Eva.
02/07/03
A formulaic romantic comedy that percolates slightly with caustic wit before devolving into idiocy, it's potty humor.
02/07/03
Trite, contrived, but often entertaining.
02/07/03
How to Lose a Guy shows that Hudson's Oscar-nominated performance in 2000's Almost Famous wasn't a fluke.
02/07/03
This material requires a great deal more suspension of disbelief than even this hokey genre normally demands.
02/07/03
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days may have tinkered with the rules, but it's still playing the same old game.
02/07/03
Has enough laughs and silly subplots to keep you looking, but in the end it's the work done by the two leads that saves the film.
02/07/03
McConaughey is an actor of limited range, but this time he has a film that fits firmly into his abilities.
02/07/03
After a frothy start, How to Lose (an apt abbreviation) becomes a one-joke comedy of slapstick suffering.
02/07/03
A sure delight for both guys and gals.
02/07/03
You not only have to be seriously testosterone- deprived to survive this film without embarrassment, you have to buy a romantic premise so ridiculously contrived that even Dr. Ruth might suspect someone was pulling her little leg.
02/07/03
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is not unpleasant. It's just dull.
02/07/03
Lackluster.
02/07/03
The movie grows formulaic and clumsy in its last third, but what you feel, sitting in a packed theater, is the spark between Hudson and the audience.
02/07/03
It goes on too long and is trapped by too many cliches.
02/07/03
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