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“My Best Friend's Girl"
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Reviewer:
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Lionsgate |
Genre: |
Comedy
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Release
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1/13/08
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Special
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Audio Commentary With Jason Biggs, Writer Jordan Cahan
And Producer Greg Lessons; Audio commentary With Director
Howard Deutch; Featurette: Making it in Beantown: Back to
Boston, Where It All Began; Men and Women: The Good, The
Bad and The Cast; The Prom: America's Awkward Rite of Passage;
On a Scale of A-to-Z: Like Father, Like Son; Outtakes: Gag
Reel; Easter Eggs: Dustin's Eyebrows [makeup demo].
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Review:
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A rancid Knocked Up knockoff in giddy romantic comedy
clothing, My Best Friend's Girl continues this trend in
both movies and recent election season politics, of degrading
high achiever women potentially upstaging men. There's also
plenty of cheap imitation Juno style spiced up dialogue
with occasional bite, especially one outrageous detour into
a Jesus pizza parlor. But more often than not, the tone
is sheer stomach-churner vibes in reaction to just how low
director Howard Deutch (Pretty In Pink) will go to lavish
leading man finesse on a scuzzy boorish male.***
]Dane Cook seems to be nearly wincing through his less
gag than gag-inducing lines as Tank, a sleazy womanizer
with a bottom feeder gig as a call center phone operator
hustling shoddy air purifiers by day, and spouting hot air
on his down time to lure gullible women into bed. In fact,
he's gotten to be such an expert at manipulating women,
that Tank has concocted a lucrative money-making moonlighting
scheme, having to do with guy rejects paying him to date
their indifferent female objects of desire and act so vulgar,
that these unsubmissive babes learn to appreciate the men
they rebuffed in the first place.***
That is, until his best friend and roommate, nerdy
Justin (Jason Biggs) seeks Tank's services to simultaneously
woo and disgust the hottie lawyer Alexis (Kate Hudson) who
works in his office. Alexis has been dating Justin but strictly
at arm's length, because he doesn't particularly turn her
on. But when Dane worms his way into her life, Alexis suddenly
can't get enough of all the crude sexual insults this male
pig - without lipstick - is dispensing as effective foreplay.***
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Special
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Audio Commentary With Jason Biggs, Writer Jordan Cahan
And Producer Greg Lessons; Audio commentary With Director
Howard Deutch; Featurette: Making it in Beantown: Back to
Boston, Where It All Began; Men and Women: The Good, The
Bad and The Cast; The Prom: America's Awkward Rite of Passage;
On a Scale of A-to-Z: Like Father, Like Son; Outtakes: Gag
Reel; Easter Eggs: Dustin's Eyebrows [makeup demo].
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Final Words:
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The matter of what was Kate
Hudson thinking, while so utterly demeaning herself in a move,
is the least of it. Sorry, Dane Cook is no Brad Pitt to begin
with. And what this procession of glamorous women see in the
crass creep, while succumbing to his extreme dirty talk as
the ultimate aphrodisiac, finally makes My Best Friend's Girl
more of a mystery than a romantic comedy. |
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