When a movie has to outright come out and say that the two actors are both charming, have wicked awesome chemistry, and they're also contemporary stars, it leaves a little bit of wanting in me. I hate McConaughey. I've liked him in exactly one movie that I can think of, and that was Tropic Thunder. I liked that he was able to mock himself. I feel ashamed that Kate Hudson is the breed of Goldie Hawn. I like Goldie Hawn a lot. Maybe because of the association
with Kurt Russell, but good god does Kate Hudson annoy the shit out of me.

So that's two strikes on the front cover right there.

At times it felt like a third-rate porno and at others a third-rate Disney animated cartoon. It made no sense and it was all over the place. As were the other secondary characters. Like Kevin Hart (who was hilarious in the last two Scary Movies and a few other roles) who gets relegated to being the hardass rapper who shoots and kills people but is still a pussy. Or his crew (one of whom is Theo Huxtable). The daughter of Donald Sutherland's character is outright annoying and boring and slutty and an idiot and very Paris Hilton-esque all at once, and it grates on you. And Sutherland seems like he strapped on a daintier version of his voice from the recent Pride and Prejudice bile he was in (my wife made me watch it and I soundly feel asleep during that piece).

It's just actors going through the motions. When people complain that Ocean's Twelve was just a reason to give the cast a vacation, I will hold this movie, tight in my grip, and say no. This movie is the vacation movie. All MMac does is walk around with his shirt off, swim, hit on girls, and tan. That right there just smacks you in the face while trying to watch this movie. You're left thinking, people actually paid money to see this?

And again, all Hudson and MMac do is mug for the camera. Throw around their "chemistry" as if they were this generation's Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and instead are just awful. If they make a movie close in line to War of the Roses next, I might be inclined to watch it. But I doubt it.