DVDs of the week, June 17

Rocky Mountain News

Published June 16, 2008 at 6 p.m.

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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson portray a flaky treasure hunter and his ex-wife reunited when he turns up a clue to the location of a treasure they'd sought for years.

UP Fool's Gold

Rated: PG-13, 112 minutes, Warner Home Video

Grade: D+

Fool's Gold is a romantic comedy that's neither romantic nor comic, says Associated Press critic Christy Lemire. Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson are reunited as a flaky treasure hunter and his ex-wife, who's persuaded to rejoin him when he turns up a clue to the location of a treasure they'd sought for years.

Although McConaughey and Hudson look great traipsing around the Caribbean, the movie is "painfully lifeless and lame," needing a boost in pacing and chemistry, a 20-minute trim, "something," Lemire says.

Under the Same Moon

Rated: PG-13, 110 minutes, $29.99, 20th Century Fox

Grade: B+

Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) tells the story of a Mexican boy whose mother cleans houses for wealthy people in Los Angeles and sends money back to him and his grandmother. When the grandmother dies, the 9-year-old goes in search of his mother, braving the illegal border crossing by himself.

San Francisco Chronicle critic Ruthe Stein praises the acting of Adrian Alonso, who plays the boy, and Kate del Castillo, who portrays his mother. Though it's fiction, Stein says, "it has the feel of truth and is a vivid reminder of the hell Mexicans put themselves through to live in the United States, even illegally."

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