Fool's Gold

with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson

Rated PG-13

(Personal Rating: R)

Tess and Finnigan are a young married couple who are in the process of getting divorced. Finn is a treasure hunter who is looking for a lost Spanish treasure and Tess has gotten involved as well. After their divorce if final, they are able to get connected with a wealthy older man who is also interested in finding this treasure...but they must do it before the competition, who is only interested in the monetary value of the treasure, not the history. Of course they fall back in love in the process! Chick-flick!

We watched this movie last night and were totally flabbergasted by the language that was involved! (Hence my "personal rating" of R!) This movie should have been rated R due to the language alone. The violence and the nature of the movie (treasure hunting) was nothing to steer kids away from. But the language was. We were truly bothered by it. McConaughey and Hudson, however, were wonderful in this movie. They make a great pair! My kids didn't particularly like the part at the end with the 'kissing' LOL but I've determined that ALL movies are chick-flicks, regardless of how much bang-em-up is in it. (And no, the boys weren't in the room for all of the movie...they didn't pick up on the foul language, they just knew there were some bad words in it.)

The Apple Dumping Gang
With Bill Bixby, Don Knotts and Tim Conway
Rated G
From Walt Disney Pictures

A bachelor (Bixby), who enters a town to play poker, finds himself in charge of 3 children who have no home and no parents. He tries to pawn them off on other couples so he can be on his way, but no one wants them for various reasons. Finally he resigns himself to keeping them and of course, they get themselves into all sorts of problems that cost him a fair amount of money.

Meanwhile, two outlaws (Knotts and Conway) attempt to rob Bixby of any money he gets, but are always failing in their attempts. And failing hilariously. :)

When the children discover a large nugget of gold in a mine, they become well liked and famous in the town. The outlaws and Bixby try to protect the children and the nugget from other outlaws intent on stealing it.

And of course, there is an element of romance within the story...when Bixby falls in love with the stage-driver, Dusty (or Magnolia, as she is more properly called). They marry and care for the children and live happily ever after....

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We really enjoyed this movie. I hadn't seen it in a long time and the boys had never seen it. We really didn't think they would like it, but the boys laughed all the way through it. And at the end, during the gun-fighting shoot-out, Brent went in and got his "gun" and stood in front of the TV and shot with them. It was hilarious....when the horses were running and they were chasing each other on horseback, he starts jumping up and down with his feet close together, all the while still shooting at the TV. He was 'riding a horse' in the horse-chase. LOL Of course, not to be out down, Clayton got up and started riding the donkey in the movie. How'd we know it was the donkey? On leg kept kicking up and down. LOL

Obviously, this will be one we continue to watch when we need a good laugh.