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Predictability reigns in How to Lose a Guy...

Emilee Chaffin, Associate Editor

Movies today tend to have the same plot. One that has been used over and over again. They change the characters names and maybe add in a slightly different twist so the movie will not be completely like all the rest.

Critics went insane when How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days came to theaters because of the movie’s worn out story line.

I decided to see for myself if this movie was truly as bad as the critics claimed.

First you meet Andie Anderson, played by Kate Hudson, who writes a very informative “how to” column in Composure magazine.

She is very knowledgeable in how to make the new colors of summer work for you and how to get out of a traffic ticket. She seems to have every aspect of her life worked out.

Andie’s friends are not so lucky. After her friend shares a tragic breakup story during their brain-storming session, Andie is assigned to write an article explaining everything girls do wrong in relationships. She and her friends go out to find the test subject for the article.

At a bar, they meet Ben Barry (Matthew McConehey), who has recently made a bet that he can make any woman fall in love with him in just ten days in order to win an account at his advertising firm.

The two meet and inevitably go back to his place. Soon after, Andie starts in with things no girl should ever do to any human soul, much less a love interest.

She does everything from leaving his bathroom filled with feminine hygiene products to ruining his poker game with their disgusting little rat-looking dog with a hair-growing problem to buying him a “love fern.”

Through out all of this, all Ben wants is out of the relationship, but he can not lose the bet with his fellow coworkers.

Eventually, the tables turn and they end up falling in love, as we all guessed. At the big banquet for his advertising firm, Andie is informed of the bet Ben made to win his account, just as Ben is informed of the article Andie is using him to write her column.

Neither are too happy and end that night on a rather rough note, singing their version of “You’re So Vain.”

As you can probably guess, the ending is the same as all other movie endings since the beginning of the big screen. With the slight twist needed for a somewhat different story line, this movie fits the classic “Will the guy redeem himself?” plot that all good movies are made of.