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The People's Reviews
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8 ratings and 8 reviews
A disappointing adaptation...
Fun for a Sunday afternoon girls outing but it was a bit of a miss. I love Emily Giffin's books so had been looking forward to this release. What annoyed me the most was the way Kate Hudson played Darcy - so irritating and a character made very hard to relate to. Rachel was played too righteously and that isn't how the books were written. I hope they make a better job of the sequel 'Something Blue' which follows Darcy as she bolts to London to escape her life and live with Ethan. It will be hard to watch the movie at all though if Darcy is played out as she was here.
classic chick flick
you have your standard formula for a chick flick, has all the laughs and tears all other girly movies have. I enjoyed it, it had the end i was hoping for which i predicted it would so that was a nice surprise for me
straight to DVD?
Story can be predicted from trailer. Kate Hudson is pretty but annoying (like in Bride Wars)
Aaaaaverage...
A bit of a miss. A formulaic rom com that was simply too long. The characters were ultimately unlikeable and I simply didn't care what happened to them. The film is also too long, by the end of it I was really ready to go home. There's a few one liners but ultimately none of them are funny enough to save this one.
Chick flick
I got dragged to this by The Mrs. I can't remember what I did wrong to deserve this punishment...
I've been along to a few chick flicks in the past. Some were tolerable, and some were even funny. I didn't find this one to be either of those.
I spent the whole movie wondering about (and commenting on, much to the annoyance of The Mrs) how much Dex (Colin Egglesfield) looks like Tom Cruise.
This is a good movie for the girls. Guys: stay at home with a beer and let her go to this one with her friends.
Chris.
Average to say the least!
I am a HUGE Kate Hudson fan and I watch every movie of hers but I have to say this was not one of her best!
It was OK... But I found that Kates character Darcy was was slightly annoying and her fiancee was just plain annoying!
I loved the book and I kinda wish I had not watched movie as it is so bad compared to the book - does not do it justice at all!
I enjoyed Rachel, I think she was the saving grace in the movie.
Probably would not recommend this movie.
Got hooked but wish I didn;t
I sat there to the end to see what happened but really didn't want to know. Not into movies about cheating and affairs and that was the story line.Bit of a sad story really
Sigh...
What is it about romance, one of the most well-defined genres in film and literature, that seems so hard to get right? Each year, countless vapid love stories flood the cinema (or more often the DVD shelf), polluting our screens with their noxious, saccharine presence. In 2011, Something Borrowed is perhaps the most offensive example; a pointless, over-long mess populated with unlikable characters and underdeveloped plots.
Something Borrowed is a love triangle of sorts, beginning with our 'heroine' Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) sleeping with her best friend Darcy's (Kate Hudson) husband-to-be Dex (Colin Egglesfield). Floating around in the background is old college pal Ethan (John Krasinski), the only decent person in the whole film, who unfortunately has no bearing on the plot and serves only as a shoddy bait-and-switch device, dropping out of the conclusion completely and with no explanation. Hudson, who seems to have the lame romantic comedy market sewn up at this point, is the worst offender, and Darcy is so wholly despicable that it's almost impossible to believe that any of the surrounding characters would put up with her self-obsessed demeanour for as long as they have. At times it feels as if the filmmakers are attempting to shake up the formula a little, yet none of it comes together in anything resembling a satisfying conclusion, and ironically a more predictable climax to this story might have redeemed the film at least a little. None of the character arcs are believable or interesting, and at almost two hours, Something Borrowed outstays its welcome by at least 30 minutes.
How films like Something Borrowed continue to get made is understandable; the audience for this nonsense are nothing if not easily amused. However, it's hard to believe that even the most dedicated romantic comedy fan will find much to enjoy in this film. It is a scar on the face of romance, and doesn't deserve to be seen by anyone. And for the love of all that's holy, please stop giving Kate Hudson these scripts.
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