How To Lose A Movie In 100 Minutes

Rating: 6/10 (14 September 2012)

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a romantic comedy film that stars Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It is loosely based on the self-help book of the same name (subtitled The Universal Don't of Dating) written by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.The movie was directed by Donald Petrie.
Andie (Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, but in the meantime she finds herself writing for a women's magazine called Composure, where her editor Lana Jong has her writing a fluffy advice column. After hearing of the latest dating laments of her relationship-challenged friend Michelle, Andie sells Lana on the idea of writing a piece on the things women do to alienate the men they love, which she'll demonstrate by winning and then driving away a man in a mere ten days.
Meanwhile, Ben (McConaughey) is an advertising man who wants to land a prestige diamond account at his firm. Ben is competing with his pals, Spears and Green, for the assignment, so Ben tells his boss Phillip Warren that he's the man for the job because he understands the fair sex so well he can make any woman fall for him in less than two weeks.
As fate would have it, Andie and Ben end up choosing one another for their mutual assignments, with neither knowing about each other's secret agenda as Ben strives to hold on to Andie while she does everything in her power to annoy him.
The bad thing about this movie is that it is far from realistic.Both Ben and Andie tried to be awful with one another and yet they fall for each other.Why?What's the reason for them to fall for each other when they were certainly creeps with one another for most part - 100 minutes - of the film? The only reason I could think of is the requirements of the plot especially for a chick flick and a romantic comedy at that.
Also,the premise looks good on the screenplay but it was poorly executed in the movie as it looks absolutely implausible.Also,there was an apparent lack of chemistry between the lead stars - Hudson and McConaughey.The only good thing about them is that they are pleasing to the eye and good to look at in the entire movie.
And most of all,it relied heavily on clichés and contrivances that are preeminent on romantic comedies.It should have relied on jokes and laughs for it to be more effective instead of the reason stated in the previous sentence.
Finally,the game of "Bullsh*t" was played towards the end of the movie.Instead of that crude humor being used for them to get together,the writers should have been a little more creative than that.The conclusion just looked empty and fabricated in the end.