A great romantic comedy with two great leads (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (DVD))

Member Name: emmajt81

Product:	How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (DVD)
Date:	20/08/09 (11 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Leads are great on screen together, clever humour, very funny

Disadvantages: None

Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) is a journalist for a top fashion magazine. Desperate to write about something other than handbags and shoes, Andie wants to write about the things that matter. When friend and colleague Michelle is dumped by her boyfriend, her boss seizes the opportunity to get some column inches out of it and suggests one of the team writes a piece about it. Andie takes on the challenge and agrees with her boss that if she does it right, she'll be able to write about what she wants to write about in the future. Andie decides to write a piece on 'how to lose a guy in ten days' - she will act out the silly dating mistakes so many girls make (like her friend Michelle) with a guy, document it and see if he will dump her in ten days. She picks a guy at a bar for the experiment - Ben (Matthew McConaughey) but unbeknown to her, Ben has an ulterior motive.

Ben is an advertising jock, and he wants to secure the campaign for a very large diamond commercial. He bets his boss he can get a girl to fall in love with him in ten days and if he does, he gets the job. So he goes to a bar, yes, the same bar, and picks Andie. While Andie is doing everything she can to repel him, Ben is doing everything he can to get her to love him. But we all know what it really means when a boy and a girl are mean to each don't we?!

This is quite an original story and makes a pleasant change. It's great to see the two characters both acting out their devious plans, plotting against each other. Both Kate and Matthew are great actors of their generation and are both made for roles like this. They have the chemistry that makes it work and both are good at comedy, making one particular singing scene both cringeworthy and hilarious. Kate turns on the bunny boiling psychotic in her for this role and through the laughter you wonder how on earth someone like Ben in real life would keep his side of the bet going when she's behaving like such a nutter! Matthew is great to watch, both for his acting abilities and his looks, and his comfort zone is playing the charmer. A role he's played many a time very well and no exception here.

The film is funny, over the top in parts, romantic and surprising too. The support from those who play Ben and Andies colleagues are well placed - especially during the marriage counselling scene. The clever humour is just part of an overall well written script and perhaps we can all see ourselves a little bit in both characters - the silly things we do that drive our other halves mad and the bravado we pull in front of our friends.

It's a film that's not too taxing on the brain, and a bit of an escape. Great for chilling out one evening. It's light, it's funny and well acted and actually a rather good film.

Summary: A great romantic comedy with two great leads that you could watch time and time again!