Let us pray: pray that Kate Hudson isn’t turning into her mother, Goldie Hawn. Not that there’s anything wrong with Goldie Hawn’s movies, but let’s face it, they did settle into a pretty downward slope after Bird on a Wire. Kate Hudson is a much much better actress than Hawn, Almost Famous showed that, and movies like this aren’t doing her any favours. I got through the movie and it has its moments, but it’s just too simple and unoriginal. I don’t understand Matthew McConaughey’s presence here, either – this is the kind of movie he would’ve done between A Time to Kill and Contact, when he was the new ‘It’ guy. He just seems too old for this role, too old to be a romantic interest for Hudson. Maybe it’s just me that’s old, I don’t know. All I know is that this movie struck me as shallow as She’s All That, turning reality into a game, love into something fleeting and insignificant (how Hudson can do this after working with Cameron Crowe, I don’t know). Put simply, not my kind of movie.

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