Just average! I was hoping to laugh so hard that I would wet myself (just a little) but that just didn't happen.
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11/23/05
Just Friends (2005)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:40
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: There are moments of mirth in this overly broad comedy, but mostly, Just Friends is just not that funny.
Reviews for Just Friends
Just Friends is funnier than any low-rent rip-off of There's Something About Mary has a right to be.
11/23/05
During the credits, Reynolds is again shown in the fat suit while singing a power ballad, reminding us all how funny Just Friends could have been.
11/23/05
I walked into the thing expecting a lifeless mass of mirthless torture, and I walked away pleasantly surprised by the ensemble cast's consistent chuckle delivery.
11/23/05
Unfunny drivel.
11/23/05
Reynolds does a tremendous job of presenting a hardened, cocky L.A. demeanor and allowing cracks of old despair and self-doubt to chip cracks in the façade.
11/23/05
Just Friends is a lot funnier than it has any right to be.
11/23/05
Brush aside the pratfalls, cheap-shot fat jokes, and creative variety of crotch attacks, and what's left? Not a lick of emotional sense.
11/23/05
Ryan Reynolds is starting to be like that boyfriend or girlfriend you keep believing in, but keeps disappointing you.
11/22/05
Just Friends is a funny production; it's just a disappointment that Kumble couldn't let the audience discover any moment of the film on their own.
11/22/05
Much humiliation and mayhem, all of it either teeth-grindingly tedious, heart-sinkingly crude, or just plain boring, often all three at once.
11/22/05
Despite its flaws, the movie comes out ahead, more funny than not.
11/22/05
Most of the movie's humor involves placing [Reynolds] in humiliating or painful situations and letting the contusions fly. That's worth some laughs but not nearly as many as the movie thinks.
11/22/05
Combines the worst elements of two Ben Affleck films - Jersey Girl and Surviving Christmas - for an indigestible stew of gross-out slapstick and holiday humiliation.
11/22/05
There are funny moments--a few even hilarious--but the majority of jokes try so hard and go so far over-the-top that they splat on the ground before takeoff.
11/22/05
An innocuous, but overly broad comedy made somewhat palatable by the likable performances of its leads.
11/22/05
Even with young talent, director Roger Kumble and writer Adam Davis rely way too heavily (no pun intended) on the fat-suit joke and titular impasse.
11/22/05
Here's a film for all of us 'losers,' and it gets the job done.
11/22/05
A refreshingly mean-spirited breeze through both the holiday movie and romantic-comedy checklists (including the third-act heart of gold).
11/21/05
[It's unpretentious PG-13] humor that works and that will leave you respecting yourself afterwards. It's just sweet and silly fun.
11/20/05
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