This is one of those films that would be enormously improved by the arrival of 100 crazy Somali pirates who would proceed to take the entire cast hostage.
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11/21/08
My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:8
Rotten:45
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: My Best Friend's Girl spends too much time being vulgar and offensive, leaving little room for laughs.
Theatrical Release:21-11-2008
Synopsis: Love conquers even the relentlessly foulmouthed Lothario played by master-class comic Dane Cook (GOOD LUCK CHUCK) in MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL. Tank (Cook) moonlights as an "emotional terrorist," which... [More]
Starring: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin
Director: Howard Deutch
Reviews for My Best Friend's Girl
Tedious, largely unfunny and poorly written comedy with the least likeable collection of characters you'll see all year.
11/21/08
It's a wonder the guys don't just wear Flintstone loincloths. Now let's hear it: Yabba-dabba-don't.
11/20/08
Want to spend a seemingly endless 100 minutes watching a dullard trying to decide between a douchebag and a eunuch? Then run, don't walk, to My Best Friend's Girl, a supremely irritating movie about idiots and their dull quest for unconvincing love
09/19/08
It attempts to go all warm and fuzzy. It succeeds. But it is the warm and fuzzy stuff that grows on a compost heap after a heavy rain
09/20/08
It works much better as a comedy, but by the end, the romantic aspect has taken over and there's not much humor to be found after the first half.
10/08/08
'There's this guy, Tank, and other guys hire him to give their exes "emotional terrorism." It's a romantic comedy.''Can you throw in a cheap anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic joke? And have Tank tell some kids how to pull a brutal sexaul trick on a woman?'
10/09/08
There could be a supporting turn from Will Smith, gas cards under every theater seat, and certified proof who killed JFK revealed only after the end credits and it still wouldn't salvage Cook's ability to select the worst possible starring vehicles.
09/19/08
An insulting, wholly unpleasant excuse for a comedy.
09/25/08
mostly unwatchable
02/24/09
When it comes right down to it, the less said about the movie the better. But in lieu of that, let's just tackle it, vilify it, screw it to the wall, and send it back into the sewer from which it came.
09/24/08
It borrows from much funnier movies such as Hitch, Wedding Crashers and My Best Friend's Wedding. Never has a romantic comedy seemed less romantic or less comedic.
09/22/08
You should steer well clear of the nasty ideas that screenwriter Jordan Cahan has about relationships and how they work.
10/10/08
...ultimately falls prey to the melodramatic silliness that one has come to expect from the romantic comedy genre.
09/28/09
A light smattering of funny moments can't save this misogynistic, feel-bad romantic comedy.
09/21/08
The movie is mirthlessly vulgar, with only a few scattered laughs escaping from the miasma of desperation.
09/20/08
A raunchy vehicle for Dane Cook fans? A sprightly romance for Kate Hudson fans? A genial underdog comedy for Jason Biggs fans? The correct answer is: a big, steaming pile of horse manure.
10/08/08
Raunchy and wretched...profoundly unfunny and sophomoric sludge...meaningless material that wouldn't be suitable for lining your pet parrot's birdcage.
09/23/08
Eventually the conventions of romantic comedy take hold, with the humor declining precipitously.
09/19/08
Top CriticA nauseating fraud from start to finish ... The film's level of awfulness is nothing new for Cook, but Hudson hits a new low.
09/21/08
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