Fool's Gold

From: Seven Days | Date: February 13, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Fool's Gold **

LOOK, MA, NO SHIRT!

McConaughey shows off his bronzed assets in Andy Tennanfs soggy romantic comedy.

"Dying is easy, comedy is hard," said Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (quoting the last words of another thespian). And there's nothing like a railed comedy to remind us just how hard. Whether the writer's going for refined satire, frat-boy belly laughs or a frothy romantic soufflé, the sound of setups falling flat is always the same.

That sound is heard often in Fool's Gold, which aspires to the sexy silliness of classic screwball comedies. In its opening scene, set aboard ...

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