Fool’s Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, mines the same adventure-comedy territory that stranded McConaughey in the desert in the misbegotten Sahara. The story here is just about as unlikely, but more entertaining.
Reteamed from How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, the stars are engaging as a soon-to-be-divorced couple who wind up on a treasure hunt at sea, thanks to a cache of jewels secretly hidden and/or lost by Spanish royalty. I wasn’t really interested enough to try to follow all the clues that tell them where to look for everything (mostly around the Florida Keys), but there are some fun scenes as they try to evade some mob types he’s gotten in trouble with, beat rivals to the treasure, and get assistance from a wealthy sailor (Donald Sutherland) whose shallow daughter winds up in deep water with everyone else. I wouldn’t call it a romantic comedy, but there are some aspects of that in the plot and some scenes. It will probably appeal to people who enjoyed the mixture of genres in National Treasure, although in terms of quality it’s only about as good as the sequel.
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viewed 2/9/08; reviewed 2/14/08
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