FOOL'S GOLD

HEADLINE: ** Lots of Adventure and Romance, but a Shallow Dive **
TITLE: FOOL'S GOLD
Quality: * * Acceptability: -2
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: NN

RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 8, 2008
TIME: 112 minutes
STARRING: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Donald Sutherland, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Alexis Dziena, and Ray Winstone
DIRECTOR: Andy Tennant
PRODUCERS: Donald De Line, Bernie Goldmann and Jon Klane
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jim Dyer and Wink Mordaunt
WRITERS: John Claflin, Daniel Zelman and Andy Tennant
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Pictures

CONTENT: (Pa, B, C, Ho, PC, LLL, VV, S, NN, MM) Light mixed pagan worldview with some elements of morality and good versus evil with marriage seen in a positive light and divorce seen as a bad thing and mention of religious freedom seen in a positive light, but two homosexual characters seen in a positive light and one of them says, "I thank God" for his homosexual relationship; 24 obscenities and 22 light profanities ("Oh my God," etc.); violence includes a lot of adventure violence from gunfire, punching, chase sequences, explosions, people being hit in the head a lot in comic way, bad guys get shot in foot and ear, man gets killed in ocean current up against rock and the audience sees bloody water shoot up on the rocks, and man shot in thigh with harpoon; implied sex in a church by separated married couple although woman makes comment about being struck by lightning because she just had sex in the basement of a church, some kissing, one person makes a comment that lady married a man for sex, sex sounds between married couples heard in the background, and two homosexual characters shown in a positive light; brief upper female nudity as girl in boat flashes guy, brief rear male nudity, a lot of naturalistic upper male nudity, women in bikinis, and sword lands between young woman's legs; no alcohol use; no smoking or drugs; and, miscellaneous immorality includes trespassing, deceit, blackmail, etc.

GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

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SUMMARY: FOOL'S GOLD, starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, is an adventurous romantic comedy about an estranged married couple, who come together one last time to find a lost treasure they have spent years hunting. FOOL'S GOLD has its entertaining moments, but a bad script with flat characters and too many long scenes of exposition, as well as a pagan worldview with foul language and homosexual elements, are off-putting.

IN BRIEF:

FOOL'S GOLD, starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, is an adventurous romantic comedy about an estranged married couple that comes together one last time to find a lost treasure they have spent years hunting. Absent-minded and always late, Finn barely makes it to his own divorce trial from Tess. Finn discovers new evidence in their long-time quest to find 40 chests of priceless Spanish treasure that was lost at sea in 1715. He convinces her new billionaire boss to finance one more campaign to find the treasure. Begrudgingly, Tess can't resist the idea, but they are not the only ones after the treasure.

FOOL'S GOLD is a fun, but improbable and uneven, movie that feels like a mixture of many other romantic adventure comedies. Though often entertaining, the movie is not very well made. The script misses several plot points and contains very flat characters, including a bad English accent from Donald Sutherland playing Kate Hudson's boss. The movie also has huge boring sequences of expository dialogue. Finally, the story's somewhat mixed pagan worldview, sexual elements, foul language, and two glorified homosexual characters will drive away people of faith and values.