Movie Reviews: "Something Borrowed"

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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.”

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