JamesG
05-06-2011, 08:06 PM
Movie Reviews: Something Borrowed
Several critics are expressing sympathy for Kate Hudson for having had to make the most of a role in a dreadful wedding-day movie.
The movie received not a single positive review from a major newspaper critic.
Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe writes:
“If it weren’t so sad watching her pick away at this skimpy, overlong romantic lie, she might be entertaining.”
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times argues:
“One of the curious problems with Something Borrowed is that Kate Hudson’s performance is too effective.”
He explains that Hudson plays her role:
“so well that she almost forces the film apart at the seams; her character is too strong for it.”
Claudia Puig is USA Today remarks that Hudson’s:
“obnoxious bridezilla roles make no use of the gently ditzy comic talent she displayed more than a decade ago in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous.”
But A.O. Scott comments in the New York Times:
“Liberated from the role of ingénue, Ms. Hudson is a whirlwind of brassy vulgarity, but her good-humored, unembarrassed energy only highlights the dire timidity of the movie itself. She acts almost as if this were a real comedy.”
-IMDB News
Several critics are expressing sympathy for Kate Hudson for having had to make the most of a role in a dreadful wedding-day movie.
The movie received not a single positive review from a major newspaper critic.
Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe writes:
“If it weren’t so sad watching her pick away at this skimpy, overlong romantic lie, she might be entertaining.”
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times argues:
“One of the curious problems with Something Borrowed is that Kate Hudson’s performance is too effective.”
He explains that Hudson plays her role:
“so well that she almost forces the film apart at the seams; her character is too strong for it.”
Claudia Puig is USA Today remarks that Hudson’s:
“obnoxious bridezilla roles make no use of the gently ditzy comic talent she displayed more than a decade ago in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous.”
But A.O. Scott comments in the New York Times:
“Liberated from the role of ingénue, Ms. Hudson is a whirlwind of brassy vulgarity, but her good-humored, unembarrassed energy only highlights the dire timidity of the movie itself. She acts almost as if this were a real comedy.”
-IMDB News