How to Lose Your Lunch In 10 Minutes

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2003)

Summary: Walked Out
It is interesting to speculate how long a super-hyped actress with almost no talent, like Kate Hudson, will continue to get big parts. Andie McDowell managed a pretty good career taking similar roles, and without much acting ability, but she had a great nose for a script (or else the best agent in Hollywood). Hudson, on the other hand, stumbled into one big winner, which she managed not to ruin, and has since been dead weight in sinking ships. How To Lose A Guy may not be as simply awful as Four Feathers, but it stinks.
Matthew McConnoughey, who is a pretty decent actor, is miserably miscast both as a high-tension Madison Avenue adman -- a part that sits badly with his down-home everyman charm -- and as a fluffy romantic lead. Bebe Neuwerth is a cartoon.
The inviting premise falls apart after five minutes. The acting is poor and the script and directing are, if possible, worse. Hudson's actions in her quest to get a man to dump her are unimaginative, haphazard, and childish.