How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days: Critic Reviews

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.

If the movie provides no new insight into the contrasting behavior of men and women or the perils of postmodern urban dating, falling well shy of the not-too-high standard set by 'Sex and the City' on both fronts, it does have its tart, fizzy moments.

Too light on laughs and too heavy on predictable moments.

Resorts to the kinds of cliches that were so yesterday two weeks ago.

Isn't as bad as it looks.

The hottest couple to come down the pike recently has been Frodo and Sam. Hudson and McConaughey rate higher on the spark-o-meter.

After a frothy start, How to Lose (an apt abbreviation) becomes a one-joke comedy of slapstick suffering.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days will test your cuteness tolerance level.

Lackluster.

I am just about ready to write off movies in which people make bets about whether they will, or will not, fall in love.

There may be some way to make this nonsense amusing, but writers Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan haven't even figured out a reasonable setup for getting the two together.

Both lovers are duplicitous creeps -- in a perverse way they're made for each other.

Despite a few clever insights and twists, it's neither good nor distinctive enough to rise above the level of generic romantic comedy.

A sure delight for both guys and gals.

More an exercise in how to lose an audience in 10 minutes.

This is the kind of movie that was doomed on the page, both by an inherently problematic premise and ill-conceived character motivations.

Clumsy, overlong.

Guys, if the gal in your life insists that you take her to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, don't panic. If she really wanted to dump you, she'd insist on Deliver Us From Eva.

For once, here's a screen couple that easily adds up.

The picture is actually watchable.

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.

The picture is entertaining, and it will probably be a big hit, but it's an opportunity wasted.