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
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09/20/08
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
The movie is mirthlessly vulgar, with only a few scattered laughs escaping from the miasma of desperation.
09/20/08
A trophy hottie who can't get enough of all the crude sexual insults this lowlife male pig - without lipstick - is dispensing as effective foreplay, while succumbing to his extreme dirty talk as the ultimate aphrodisiac.
09/20/08
It's disturbing to think of the millions of teenage boys who will laugh when he insults a girl to get her in bed, or pees in a cactus plant at a restaurant.
09/19/08
Eventually the conventions of romantic comedy take hold, with the humor declining precipitously.
09/19/08
Top CriticCook is most amusing while emphasizing his sardonic edginess, a trait that may eventually serve him well in some anti-heroic (or downright villainous) dramatic role. Better still, he establishes an effectively fluid give-and-take with Hudson.
09/19/08
Top CriticMy Best Friend's Girl isn't just a misfire; it's a misfire compounded by a chain of miscalculations, and it's hard to figure out who this could appeal to (except, perhaps, Dane Cook's fan club).
09/19/08
The actors (especially Alec Baldwin, as Tank's horndog dad) elevate the material slightly, but such piffle will just fill you with longing... for a better movie.
09/19/08
The movie spends a lot of time trying to be cute, vulgar and cutely vulgar. But it forgets about character, plot and believability.
09/19/08
Isolated bits don't add up to much here.
09/19/08
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
In trying to play to both Cook's raunch-loving fanbase and to hopeless romantics, director Howard Deutch has made an awkward half-breed that's likely to alienate both camps.
09/19/08
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
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