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Review: Say ‘I don’t’ to ‘Something Borrowed’
Roswell Daily Record
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
CHRISTY LEMIRE AP MOVIE CRITIC
“Something Borrowed” poses the question: What happens when you realize you’re in love with your best friend’s fiance? But the characters are either so ill-defined or unlikable, it’s hard to care whether they get out of this tricky situation with their emotions and relationships intact. And that’s odd, and unfortunate, because “Something Borrowed” stars the ordinarily adorable Ginnifer Goodwin as a New York attorney who finds herself in that predicament. Directed by Luke Greenfield (”The Girl Next Door”) and based on the novel by Emily Gif fin, “Something Borrowed” introduces us to Goodwin’s character, Rachel, on the night of her 30th birthday. She’s quietly freaking out about the passage of time because she’s still hopelessly single, the clichid trademark of so many chick-lit heroines. Meanwhile, her closest pal since childhood, the blonde party girl Darcy (Kate Hudson), is about to marry Dex (Colin Egglesfield), Rachel’s good friend from law school. Rachel introduced the two of them six years ago and encouraged them to get together, even though she was secretly in love with Dex. (And Egglesfield, a former soap opera star in his first major film role, is traditionally handsome in a young-T omCruise sort of way.) But after a few drinks at her surprise party, she and Dex end up sleeping together — and that inspires them to revisit feelings they’d both suppressed. Clearly, they’re meant
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In this publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Ginnifer Goodwin, left, and Colin Egglesfield are shown in a scene from, "Something Borrowed."
for each other, but each feels a responsibility toward Darcy — which makes no sense, because Darcy only feels a responsibility toward herself. As Hudson describes her own character in the film’s production notes, “Darcy is all about Darcy.” And as Hudson plays her, she is rampantly narcissistic; the script from Jennie Snyder Ur man renders her in such one-dimensional fashion, it’s hard to figure out what she does besides drink and shop. She may not even have a job. So it’s baf fling that Rachel and Dex, two intelligent, ostensibly decenthearted people, have cho-
sen to spend any time with her at all, much less made her one of the most important people in their lives. It’s also obvious that Dex’s old-money parents would be happier with the sweet and proper Rachel rather than the flamboyant and obnoxious Darcy. And so the majority of “Something Borrowed” features Rachel and Dex hemming and hawing over how to handle their burgeoning relationship, as the threat of the big day draws ever closer. Much of this takes place over dull weekends at Darcy’s Hamptons beach house with a cadre of supporting players.
Directed by Luke Greenfield (”The Girl Next Door”) and based on the novel by Emily Giffin, “Something Borrowed” introduces us to Goodwin’s character, Rachel, on the night of her 30th birthday. She’s quietly freaking out about the passage of time because she’s still hopelessly single, the clichid trademark of so many chick-lit heroines. Meanwhile, her closest pal since childhood, the blonde party girl Darcy (Kate Hudson), is about to marry Dex (Colin Egglesfield), Rachel’s good friend from law school.
John Krasinski co-stars as Rachel and Darcy’s childhood friend, Ethan, who mainly exists for cutaway reaction shots and sarcastic remarks (he does get a few amusing lines); Steve Howey plays Marcus, a gleeful womanizer whom Darcy insists Rachel should hook up with, which shows how little Darcy really knows
or cares about Rachel; and Ashley Williams as the clingy Claire, with whom Ethan had a onenight stand he regrets. He is so desperate to avoid her, he pretends to be gay. That’s how horrible all these people are. Many melodramatic revelations come to light in the film’s third act, then they’re just as quickly
resolved. But don’t feel daunted: You’ll probably have checked out mentally and emotionally long before any of this anyway. “Something Borrowed,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, and some drug material. Running time: 113 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
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