Fool's Gold (Widescreen Edition)

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Actor: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Fool's Gold (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: Fun Movie
Summary: 4 Stars

Sometimes it is just fun to be able to watch a movie that is not "R" rated. It's a good movie for lighter moments.

DVD Review: So so bad
Summary: 1 Stars

I went to see this because my husband wanted to because he loves treasure hunting movies. Well this is hardly a treasure hunting movie. It was just ridiculous. He thought it would be like National Treasure or something but it is just so dumb. The acting is horrid in this and I know that Matthew and Kate are better in other movies. The whole story line is dumb and predictable. All I could think about after we left the theatre was "WOW did I really just spend 25 dollars to see that garbage?"

DVD Review: dreadful romantic adventure film
Summary: 2 Stars

The appropriately titled "Fool's Gold" is a lame, thoroughly hopeless romantic comedy whose sole purpose for existence is to allow us to watch a couple of impossibly beautiful people (Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson) romping around in an impossibly beautiful setting (the Caribbean Sea).

McConaughey, in another of his increasingly frivolous roles (there was a time when he seemed to have an ambition to be an actual actor), plays a down-on-his-luck treasure salvager who believes he's uncovered the whereabouts of a vast fortune - the Queen of Spain's dowry to be exact - that was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Florida in the early 1700s. Hudson plays his longsuffering wife who fancies herself an intellectual and therefore has filed for divorce from a man who is all brawn and no brains and who is always off chasing rainbows when he should be at home with the woman he loves.

To say that "Fool's Gold" lands on the screen with a resounding thud would be to minimize its awfulness. McConaughey and Hudson, both highly attractive performers under other circumstances, are here reduced to flailing around like mad and mugging for the camera just to cover up for the fact that there is not a single clever or witty line in a screenplay that takes a full one-hour-and-fifty-two minutes to play itself out - a screenplay, incidentally, in which every single black character is either a rap star, an armed-to-the-teeth cutthroat or both (the gays don`t fare much better, come to think of it, as they`re all portrayed as ninnies and cowards). In supporting roles, Donald Sutherland and Malcolm-Jamal Warner also wind up getting trapped in the wreckage.

Unfortunately, for all those involved in "Fool`s Gold," the boats aren't the only things sinking in this film.

DVD Review: Fools Gold
Summary: 5 Stars

Item was in great condition - didn't take too long to get it. thanks

DVD Review: If You're In The Mood, It Might Fit Your Needs...
Summary: 3 Stars

Before film fans ream me a new one for rating FOOL'S GOLD as an adequate movie, let me explain why I did.

It was a loooong day at work. Really long. One of those days where your body feels like a freight train ran it over and your brain's a bowl of oatmeal. You've probably had those days. You just want to come home, unwind, sip a cool one, and sit back in a mindless haze for a while. Ahh!

Normally I like films that are bit more visceral and cerebral. But not this day. My mind needed the minimal amount of energy expended in order to ingest something, and Fool's Gold met that need.

Yes, we certainly get to see Matthew McConaughey (Tropic Thunder) without his shirt on more times than you can shake a stick at. And Kate Hudson looks mighty nice in those tight fitting clothes and bikini. The ease with which I fell into the story was exactly what I needed to end this rather rough day. And so it goes...

Benjamin Finnegan (McConaughey) is an underwater treasure hunter, but he's hit some rough waters. His wife Tess (Hudson) is divorcing him. His boat that's financed by a meanspirited, island-owning rapper has just sunk. And his partner Alfonz (Ewen Bremner, Death at a Funeral) has no qualms about leaving him when things are tough. He's been searching nearly his entire life for something known as The Queen's Dowry, a fortune in treasure that sunk aboard a ship in 1715. While hunting for this treasure, though, Benjamin must battle financial woes, a wife who still loves him but can't stand his antics (so much so that she's divorcing him), and the dangers being associated with a rapper/murderer who simply wants the benjamins.

The outlandish nature of just about everything makes the entire production minimally cerebral at best. Examples are 300-year-old canons resting at the bottom of the ocean but we're still able to read what's written on them. Explosions that knock divers out of the water but don't harm them in any way. A bimbo richese daughter who knows nothing about ...well ...anything. And the list goes on.

But even so, I was in the mood for all of this nonsense. And if you've had a rough day and need something mindless, this one will certainly fit your needs. But if you're looking for anything approaching story depth, you might want to pass.

Description of Fool's Gold (Widescreen Edition)

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson go for the gold (and the diamonds, emeralds and rubies) as a just-divorced couple who bicker and banter their way through an adventure- and laugh-packed undersea treasure hunt. McConaughey is Finn, in love with his ex (Hudson) and in deep with gangster Bigg Bunny. After eight years of searching, Finn gets a clue to the whereabouts of the Queen's Dowry, a fabulous fortune that mysteriously disappeared in the Caribbean in 1715. Now all he has to do is get the gold, get the girl and get going before Bigg Bunny gets him. Directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch), Fool's Gold glitters with danger, action, romance, comedy, great one-liners - and a great time to be had by all!

The "gold" of the title refers to an elusive pirate's booty, but it just as easily could mean the sun-washed glistening shores of Florida, or the sumptuously tanned bodies of its appealing stars, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. The whole film is awash in golden highlights, and the scenery and cinematography make the experience akin to taking a tropical holiday. Hudson and McConaughey reprise the chemistry they first exhibited in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, sparking and tangling and kvetching, while all the while the audience knows, of course, they adore each other and are perfect for each other. McConaughey is a dreamer, on the trail of a sunken pirate's treasure, and Hudson his now-ex-wife, a historian who prefers life to be a little more sedate. McConaughey, as Finn, delivers impassioned speeches to Hudson, as Tess, saying, "You want history? It's in the ocean, lady!" Before you can say Romancing the Stone, Tess and Finn are grudgingly reunited in search of the booty. If the plot doesn't contain many surprises, the froth of the stars' chemistry is amiable and makes for a perfect date movie. Scuba divers may find McConaughey's antics below the surface to be wildly unbelievable and usually fatal, but in the end viewers will root for him to surface, and recapture the heart of his lady love. --A.T. Hurley

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