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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Based on 44 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Kristen Buckley
Brian Regan
Burr Steers
Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long (book)
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 7, 2003
DVD: July 1, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sex-related material
Starring Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow, Thomas Lennon, Kathryn Hahn, and Bebe Neuwirth
A ladies man just bet his friends that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. In a twist of fate, his target is a magazine columnist writing about (and practicing) all the things women do to drive men away.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
McConaughey and (especially) Hudson manage to make it all work, maintaining their likability even in situations where they inevitably end up acting like jerks.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey don't simply star in this movie; they tag-team it out of the Freddie Prinze Jr. --Julia Stiles puppy-love ghetto.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's about as close to French farce as romantic comedies get, and the closer the better.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
At least it's a pleasant walk, with attractive people and nice conversation
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Playful, predictable and more than a little precious, this entertaining if slight romantic farce makes it's hard not to mourn the loss of the adult romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Eventually loses its cheerful goofiness and its momentum, climaxing with a lengthy and embarrassing showdown scene at a big party. But it gets worse.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
What's missing? Simple: the romance. This movie is so intent upon getting cheap laughs and putting the protagonists in uncomfortable situations that it forgets they're supposed to be falling in love.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
The picture is actually watchable. What's more, as romance comedies go, it's something of a novelty.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
There's a pleasantly malevolent ridiculousness hovering around How to Lose a Guy. But the movie would have been so much better if it had jumped into its mean-spiritedness with gusto and passion, instead of just splashing around in it halfheartedly.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The plot contrivances that bring them together to torture each other are so deftly handled that I almost bought them, and the two leads are charming and funny enough to offset the characters' obnoxious motives.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
As her character resorts to increasingly cruel and devious pranks, Hudson only seems funnier and more endearing.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
It's totally implausible, and yet it gets at something unnervingly real: the way that people can blow a budding relationship by being too honest with each other.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
With its ungainly double-deception premise, How to Lose a Guy feels like it was made out of two connect-the-dots drawings laid haphazardly on top of one another.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
There is no shape or pacing to Daniel Petrie's movie. It's like a bottle of soda left uncapped. So thus a story that promised effervescence ends up being flat.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Some of the scenarios are funny. But they're uniformly overplayed.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Both lead players are appealing and attractive enough to make an otherwise tepid movie at least un-excruciating.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Though something less than a masterpiece of the genre, this good-natured skirmish in the war between men and women benefits from Hudson's thoroughly charming performance.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Laura Sinagra
With a premise this screwy, nobody has any choice but to follow the savvy lead of Bebe Neuwirth, who, as Hudson's "Composure" editor, hams her queen-bitch-mother-hen role to glazed perfection.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
How to lose an audience in 10 minutes: Cobble together a predictable and forced romantic comedy that should have been funnier.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The few chuckles the film affords come early, and too often the script desperately tries to repeat them. By the end, it's not funny or happy -- just over. And you're glad for it, the one true emotion you feel in the whole two hours.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
In the end, we know Andie and Ben will kiss and make up - how could too alliteratively aligned pretty people not? - but first we must wade through the protracted and wholly unwarranted period in which both huffs about the others deceptions.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A concept, no matter how promising, is not a movie, and this picture has the bad luck to illustrate the difference.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The movie isn't all bad, and it's sure to succeed with its target audience.
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
I can't think of much that might happen on a date evening that could be more annoying than this movie.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
I am just about ready to write off movies in which people make bets about whether they will, or will not, fall in love.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Large chunks of the film seem like a record played at the wrong speed: The tempo of the dialogue as delivered doesn't match the lines as written, and the filmmakers are too lazy or too inept to make their convoluted premise jibe with any recognizable idea of human nature.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
This is the kind of movie that was doomed on the page, both by an inherently problematic premise and ill-conceived character motivations.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
When a chick flick goes wrong -- and this one hits a dead end in hell -- it's a wipeout.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Directed by Donald Petrie ("Miss Congeniality") with about as much substance and style as a ham sandwich. It's a heavy hand that damps down such airy creatures as Hudson and McConaughey.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
All in all, the only lesson here is how to irritate. This is a stupid movie for stupid people. If you're a stupid person, knock yourself out. Please
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 44 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Stefanie D. gave it a 10:
The whole movie was hilarious. I went to the movies 3 times to see it because I just couldnt get enough. It doesnt matter if the movie is predictable or doesnt teach you anything the thing that matters is that it kept you laughing the whole movie.
Stephanie P. gave it a 10:
The whole movie was hilarious and it doesnt have to be realistic to be funny.
Pat C. gave it a 4:
I don't know, I wouldn't pay money to see it, but if you're caught up on your cable bill, why not. It's full of cliches. Not movie cliches but relationship cliches, which it makes fun of. Too bad it can't go on forever, but the principals start to like each other. Yea, that could happen.
Gabor A. gave it a 2:
In the first ten minutes this movie sets itself up for a potentially funny movie. The backdrop is interesting and the characters seem funny. After that nothing happens. Not a single gag was funny nor did i understand how they could be concived as funny. I guess the movie tries to balance itself on the same peg as many similar sitcoms: cute is funny. I fail to see the connection.
CJ gave it a 10:
For the professional critics who claim that the movie wasn't intellectually stimulating, perhaps it wasn't necessarily meant to be. Instead "How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days" was a delightfully charming flick that will be enjoyed time and time again. Hudson and McConaughey have such a presence on the screen that this avid movie goer would love to see them co-star another film. Intellectually stimulating films have their place as I fully enjoy them, however on occasion we all need a sweet feel good movie like this one. Go, go see this movie!
Carrie T. gave it a 10:
This is my favorite movie of all time! You can call me lame or stupid or whatever you want for liking this movie..but you cant judge a person because of their favorite movie! This movie is hilarious, cute, romantic and just wonderful...I have seen the movie over 40 times and i still laugh! i think its a must see!
Yori D. gave it a 10:
Saccharrine sometimes is good for you.yes all predictable but sometimes that's not a bad thing.adorable kate rules the movie.i saw it twice and enjoyed it both times.it's a great "date" movie with a great BIG ol' heart.shut up,eat your popcorn and smile.
