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Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey
Star in No-Brainer "Fool's Gold"

The premise of Fool's Gold is sweet: rekindling a love for your passions.

There are love scenes, action scenes, and dramatic screaming scenes. The two main pieces of eye candy, I mean stars, of this wanna be version of National Treasure are Tess (Kate Hudson) and Finn (Matthew McConaughey) who are about to be divorced but are still in love with each other. These two shared chemistry in "How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days" and are back together again.

When Tess threw in the towel in on her marraige, she also gave up on her other love, recovering a long lost mysterious treasure. Finn is an unemployed, irresponsible, obsessed treasure hunter willing to risk everything for this big discovery. Regardless of how much debt or how many relationships it costs him, it's all worth it just to pull something valuable from the sand with his own two hands. For years, Tess and Finn shared this dream and they worked together tirelessly on a special project. Until Tess finally decided that it was a lost cause and left him and the project to go back to grad school.

Now working on the yacht of richer-than-rich Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland) she has accepted her new life and is trying to move on. Finn finds a piece of the treasure that has alluded them and on the day their divorce becomes final Finn tells her all about his latest discovery. Finn loves Tess and, although she won't admit it, Tess loves Finn. She just doesn't want to get sucked in again so she refuses to help him. One way or another Finn gets connected to Nigel, which Tess knew would happen somehow, and Tess ends up getting wrapped up in the whole rigamarole once again.

There are people that Finn owes money, lots of money, one of them being the owner of the island Finn thinks the treasure is on, famous rapper/criminal Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart). Finn worked out a deal with him to get the resources to keep searching for the treasure. After not much progress Bigg Bunny is fed up and wants Finn gone.

Another element to this crazy movie is the violence. The measures that are taken to eliminate Finn are graphic and should not be seen by young children. Not to mention the sexual situations that are woven throughout the scenes. The PG-13 rating should be closely followed. This is a no-brainer kind of film that is great if you want to give your mind a rest and just relax while appreciating some finer specimens of the human body.

Elsewhere on the Web:

Fool's Gold Official Site

Smartcine Review Fool's Gold

New York Times Review Fool's Gold

About the Author
Katrina Cramer-Diaz is one of Chiff.com's Toy Reviewers. She is a working mom with four kids and lots of additional experience in kids' movies and entertainment!