Not bad for a chick flick...

Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2003)

After dragging my wife to see LOTR (both of them), she was quite adamant that I "owed" her a chick flick. So I took her to see "How To Lose...". Matthew McConaughey is her "honey", and I figured I could stand to look at Kate Hudson for two hours, so it was worth the risk.
I was quite pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable the movie turned out to be. Easy to predict, perhaps not very original in plot, but the chemistry between McConaughey and Hudson was really nice. Hudson in particular showed some great comedic talent, far surpassing her mother at the same stage in her career.
What made the movie for me, though, was the "Bull****" scene with "Ben's" parents. I really had to laugh... that game was a favorite of my parent's, and we used to play all the time. Seeing it in the movie, and the underlying meaning of it in the whole movie, was nice.
8 out of 10... would have been higher but Ben's two friends really bugged me, as did the friend of Andie's whose relationship problems started the whole thing rolling. And the darn dog was ugly.