Fool's Gold

In Fool's Gold, an unabashedly goofy, over-the-top romantic adventure-comedy, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson have the spar-flirt formula down pat.

Engaging though flimsy, lively though occasionally tone-deaf, it's a movie that thrives on the strength of its affable co-stars.

The fact that I left Fool's Gold feeling cheery is a sign of how depressing the dumping grounds of January and February are for movie critics.

Fool's Gold is a decently charming movie, not a bad couple of hours diversion (once anyway) especially if you come across it while channel surfing, but not much more.

Fool's Gold is a disposable beach paperback of a movie, easy to digest and even easier to forget.

Sometime between Matthew McConaughey's third shirtless scene -- which is to say, his third scene -- and Kate Hudson's first, Fool's Gold picks up an unsightly case of the dulls.

The clues are so incomprehensible and the search so poorly plotted that Fool's Gold offers no fun at all as an intellect-teasing treasure hunt.

Fool's Gold is a movie that keeps reminding you of its antecedents, all the way back to 1984 and the comic adventure Romancing the Stone.

The aptly titled Fool's Gold is a retread of a retread – an attempt to cash in on such movies as the National Treasure series, which in turn were rip-offs of Indiana Jones, which, as it happens, is being revived this summer. And so it goes.

Like the far superior Romancing the Stone, the movie doles out comedy, lovey-doviness and action-adventure in more or less equal measure.

Whatever you call the wintry version of the "dog days of summer," we know we're deep into it when Matthew McConaughey arrives in multiplexes with his latest movie.

This movie is a lot like going on vacation and only eating at chain restaurants: familiar and bland, despite the beautiful surroundings.

Fool's Gold isn't so much a film as an opportunity to pay homage to Matthew McConaughey's impressive physique.

For all its action-comedy churning, Fool's Gold feels dead in the water long before the cruise is over.

It's too long, and the accent is on occasionally violent action that doesn't mix well with romance or comedy.

Director Andy Tennant (Hitch) manages a few nice underwater scenes, but beware his "action" sequences -- for the most part, cartoon villains and heroes knocking each other out with bats, shovels and frying pans.

Fool's Gold is an inert, heavy mass of relatively little worth, sometimes mistaken for something precious because of its deceptively shiny surfaces. So is the movie named after it.

It's not easy to make a treasure hunt boring, but any sense of adventure is buried under endless speeches about the 18th-century Spanish shipwreck.

Fool's Gold is really just as the title suggests: physically attractive on the outside, but lacking any legitimate substance.

Fool's Gold, which aspires to be a wet & wild romantic comedy, is just foolish.

Don’t bother trying to follow the convoluted plot, it eventually becomes clear that the movie is nothing but a flimsy excuse for McConaughey to spend half of his screen time shirtless.

This is a romantic adventure that is all plot and no character, a treasure-hunting comedy that is more worried about the treasure than the comedy.

Give this to Fool's Gold: The title says it all. Only a complete fool is going to think this movie is golden.

Fool's Gold is the sort of knockabout ''romp'' in which folks clunk each other over the head with shovels.

Unfunny, overlong and mind-numbingly mediocre, it's the sort of movie that makes you want to storm the box office and demand your money back.

The movie may have only three credited screenwriters, including director Andy Tennant, but is surprisingly overwritten.

Fool's Gold is a disappointing second effort from rom-com darlings Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, despite the fact the two look so darn cute together.

Fool's Gold boasts two real attractions: the sun-kissed blues and greens of Don Burgess's gleaming cinematography, which was actually shot in mostly Australia; and Hudson.

Fool's Gold doesn't aim for much, so the fact that it falls short of its modest goals says a lot.

An "as-if" romantic adventure reunites How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days lovebirds Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson in a sun-soaked treasure hunt that squanders everybody's time, including yours.

Fool's Gold, a leaden action-adventure, stars the perennially shirtless Matthew McConaughey and the peculiarly mirthless Kate Hudson as a couple whose marriage, like the film, is in the doldrums.

This movie feels very generic and very, very long; after it's over, you might need a little sunscreen for your brain.

The forgettable Fool's Gold is the near-definition of mechanically going through the motions.

There are several dazzlingly pretty but profoundly dumb characters in Fool's Gold, characteristics they share with the film itself.

Fool's Gold begins with a boat sinking and ends with a plane sinking, and in between, you'll be the one with that sinking feeling.

Director Andy Tennant (Hitch) and his co-screenwriters Daniel Zelman and John Claflin found a way to make comedy without laughs and drama without tension.

A surprising amount of violence -- including a revolting geyser of blood and seawater -- leering camera angles and the strictly tourists' eye view of the Caribbean only add to the spoiled aftertaste.

Not only do we not care about the lost treasure, their characters aren't developed enough for us to give a hoot, so nothing about this story strikes gold.

Fool's Gold plays like a product that began life as one thing in the Hollywood cannery and wound up something else.

Fool's Gold, the new supposed romantic comedy action flick with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, is neither funny nor romantic.

The title of the excrucia tingly lame and laughless romantic comedy/adventure Fool's Gold surely deserves some kind of an award for truth in advertising.

If there was ever a film that fit the definition of shallow, it's Fool's Gold.

Director Andy Tennant (Hitch) tries for a mix of screwball comedy and laid-back island adventure, but his tone is uneven.

Fool's Gold is a romantic comedy and an adventure story, but in this case that just means it bombs in two distinct ways.

This is the kind of movie in which a character will be smacked viciously in the head, yet the bruises and blood will magically disappear in the following scene.

Fool’s Gold is the latest romantic comedy from Tennant, who is very possibly the worst director working in Hollywood today.

Hudson and McConaughey coast on what little chemistry they have, something which has long since been proven in other movies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Andy Tennant’s film is ugly, lazy and charmless -- as if a film starring the ever-brittle Kate Hudson could be expected to be charming.

Fool's Gold is about as bad as big movies get, precisely because it pretends to know what audiences want without really asking them.

This is a movie for people who felt that the National Treasure films had become too dense and impenetrable.

Fool's Gold bores you so breathless you want to take names and exact punishment.