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“For some unfathomable reason,” said Time Out, “I succumbed to the very occasional charms of this slight, good-natured romcom adventure, and left the screening in quite a good mood.”

Though Fool’s Gold will hardly change your life, this romantic comedy is a perfectly enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours.

Matthew McConaughey (pictured above) plays Ben Finnegan, a surfer bum turned treasure hunter who’s obsessed with finding the legendary 18th century Queen’s Dowry.

With perhaps more money than sense, he’s sunk everything he has, including his marriage, into this seemingly impossible quest.

But unfortunately Ben isn’t the only one after the treasure.

“The director keeps his extravagantly stupid new comedy breezing along affably on the strength of photogenic locales, obscenely beautiful stars, a laid-back soundtrack and a wholesale unwillingness to take itself the least bit seriously,” suggested the American news website The Onion.

But not everyone proved receptive to its charms.

“A two-hour explosion of rubbishness,” exclaimed the Guardian.

And though the Independent considered co-star Kate Hudson “just about bearable”, it decided that “the very sight of McConaughey nowadays is a sort of guarantee for how to lose an audience in ten minutes.”

The Baltimore Sun was ultimately more forgiving.

“Engaging though flimsy, lively though occasionally tone deaf, this is a movie that thrives on the strength of its affable stars and a sense of adventure.”

2008 | Comedy | Warner Bros | 112 minutes

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