What it's like to date an actor/actress

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2005)

That's what the film should've been called. I'm glad that audiences can see what's it's like for two totally selfish people try and pretend that love can be played around for the sake of their careers. OK enough of that...
This movie is a typical romance film with the cliché curveballs and the overwhelming plot of "how is this going to end up." How quickly we forget how evil both of them are and how manipulating they were. Ah, romance movies. For those who do not know, Kate Hudson plays a writer for a "Cosmopolitan"-like magazine and Matthew McConaughey plays an advertising exec. They are both put to the challenge to fall in love, but the circumstances differ for each person. McConaughey has to keep a girl in love with him (for the sake of his confidence going to his head, and proclaiming that he can make any woman LOVE him), and Hudson has to write about how exactly to lose a man in 10 days (from the start of their relationship until it ends...it was more of a "what NOT to do" story).
To break it to audiences everywhere who like this film, it was OK. That's all. All the music was pretty standard, the shots were all pretty standard, and although Kate did a pretty good switch of character in the middle of the film, the acting was pretty bland and boring. A good date movie, but I don't think it has any depth or revelations that we didn't see coming. 5/10