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My Best Friend's Girl

My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

September. 19,2008
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5.8
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R
| Comedy Romance

When Dustin's girlfriend, Alexis, breaks up with him, he employs his best buddy, Tank, to take her out on the worst rebound date imaginable in the hopes that it will send her running back into his arms. But when Tank begins to really fall for Alexis, he finds himself in an impossible position.

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cscsmith21
2008/09/19

I hated everything about this film. The casting was awful and the characters deserved to be hated. Thats not something I say lightly. Alexis is a total bi**h. She treats Dustin like crap and somehow its OK but when he treats her like anything less than perfectly shes outraged and make the traditional romantic drama "victim woman".Then there is the ending where Dustin is pawned off with Alexis' roommate Ami. Now I don't know about you but I would never hook up with someone who could be friends with a girl who treated me like sh*t. I have to say that I hated this film worse than "How to lose a Guy in 10 days" which was pretty bad.

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SnoopyStyle
2008/09/20

Tank (Dane Cook) has an ugly side business to take woman out to horrible dates. Guys hire him to take their ex-girlfriends out so that they appreciate them. Dustin (Jason Biggs) is a nice guy in love with co-worker Alexis (Kate Hudson). When she just wants to be friends, he hires his roommate/friend Tank. It doesn't go as planned. She convinces herself to do the douche to appreciate Dustin and he finds himself falling for her. She wants to start over as friends with Dustin. It's a true morality crisis for Tank as he sleeps with Alexis behind Dustin's back. And his father (Alec Baldwin) doesn't exactly help.Dane Cook is terribly annoying. So he fits this character very well. I don't like him as an actor usual but he is completely this guy. He just works in this movie. Parts of this is funny. Other parts are awkwardly unfunny. It's very uneven. The problem is when it's not funny, it's annoying. It's also hard to settle on the romance part. Dane is not exactly the romantic lead unless the movie forces it.

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captgwk-302-887251
2008/09/21

Kaye Hudson had me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who she was .. and I never did. All of the characters were horrible. Well acted pigs and shallow humans. Who did I like the most? Probably the extras. An uncomfortable, nasty waste of time. Again, well acted, and almost entertaining, but mostly an uncomfortable ride with little redeeming value.Why do I need more lines of text?OK. What was the moral? There was no moral?Why did the bride marry the groom she married? Who knows?What was the deal with the Bride, her sister, and her mom?No spoiler here, but after you see the movie, you'll want to know.

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puffball97
2008/09/22

Dane Cook looks really handsome enough. Too bad his talent doesn't match his good looks. Some comedians in this day and age, like let's say, Steve Carell, can get away with being bad actors once in a while because they at least have charm and talent inside. But Dane Cook has nothing. No talent, no charm. He is just coarse, crass, cringeworthy, and foul-mouthed throughout "My Best Friend's Girl." His comedy style is an acquired taste, and I can see why.Then there is Kate Hudson. She always had enough charm but what she really needs is a hit. She really hasn't had a hit since being nominated for an Oscar for "Almost Famous" back in 2000, which wasn't a comedy. Since then, she wants to follow the footsteps of her famous mother Goldie Hawn in romantic comedy after romantic comedy. So far, she hasn't found anything yet, and all of her subsequent movies have been flops. Hopefully, a hit will follow her soon.I haven't seen any of the "American Pie" movies, but I realize that when you see the name Jason Biggs, you know he will pop in some raucous gross-out comedy that will satisfy the Generation X crowd.Take these three actors, Dane Cook being the worst one of them all, and put them into "My Best Friend's Girl." There is nothing but vomit jokes and continuous swearing that is never funny. Cook plays the supercool hustler Tank, who is hired by his nerdy close friend Dustin (Biggs) to go out on a date with his coworker and ex-girlfriend, Alexis (Hudson). Tank is the kind of guy who has one night stands women from failed relationships and returns them to their exes. Predictably, Tank and Alexis fall in love. More gross-outs and fights ensue. We get to see less of Dustin, and the story concentrates mostly on Tank with Alexis in the middle. There is a cameo by Alec Baldwin as Tank's equally lecherous and foul-mouthed father. Even Baldwin doesn't help.The movie is too long. The characters are all despicable. Someone like Kate Hudson really knows better, and audience members keep asking themselves "What's a sweet, nice gal like Kate Hudson doing in dreck like this?" Hudson is too perky and sweet to be vulgar. I believe being brought up by Goldie and Kurt, she doesn't seem the gross-out type like let's say, Cameron Diaz, whose gross-out humor from "There's Something Like Mary" was actually convincingly funny, and that's why she was the gross-out queen of the late 1990s. Everyone else acts really nasty in this movie. Dane Cook is just nasty. I don't like nasty humor. 1980s teen comedy director Howard Deutch returns to helm this haphazard train wreck sloppily. A total mess, skip this floperoo, which it was at the box office.

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