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Something Borrowed (12A)

2 / 10

Director: Luke Greenfield
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin Eggleston, Kate Hudson, John Krasinski

Rachel (Goodwin) is a successful, single lawyer. She's always been in love with Dex (Egglesfield), although the problem is that he is engaged to her best friend Darcy (Hudson). As the couple's wedding looms, will Dex admit that he's also been in love with Rachel all along...?

Something Borrowed is yet another low cost American rom-com. Considering that the vast majority of romantic comedies are terrible (even when they have big stars like Natalie Portman or Ashton Kucher in them), a Hollywood comedy featuring a bunch of relative nobodies based on a bestselling chick-lit novel was, I suppose, always destined to be terrible.

And terrible it is. The two lead characters are so meek and feeble that they deserve to be single, whilst Hudson's character is so dislikeable that you don't give a monkeys what happens to her. There are no jokes, there's no chemistry and the 'will they/won't they' intrigue (such as it is) goes on way, way too long. By the end you just want to bash the pair of them over the head with a frying pan and tell them to man up.

Something Borrowed is long, dreary, unfunny and fluffier than a fat man's belly button. For your own well being, avoid at all costs.