Formula hokum

Rating: 5/10 (10 February 2003)

A fair romantic comedy with Kate Hudson as a collumnist for some cheasy girls mag who has to find a guy and get him to dump her in 10 days by doing the obnoxious things that girls do (her words, not mine). Of course she chooses Matthew McConaughey who plays an obnoxious advertising guy who has just made a bet to find a girl and make her fall in love with him in 10 days. It's a battle of the wills in this silly piece of hookum. Hudson is cute and perky even when she's being crazy and McConaughey is such a cocky womanizer that you find yourself thinking that she could do so much better.. when they inevitably do get together at the end, in one of those cheesy and done a zillion times movie endings that I'm getting sick of.. Still, as pleasant enough time waster of a romantic comedy its ok.. though the ending coulda been somewhat more creative. GRADE: C