This film was better than I expected. I really liked it!
This movie is a story about a guy who does very well with the ladies but doesn’t have any real male friends at all. Paul Rudd plays the main character, and he is ok. But much more importantly, Jason Segal and the supporting cast, including Jon Favreau, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jaime Pressly, and many other great supporting actors are all terrific in this movie. I thought it was an original, funny, and authentic story of a guy finding his best friend. It has a lot of great scenes and lines and a good story. If you are not offended by dirty jokes and you like comedy, I recommend this film.
This movie is not a chick flick. Even though there is a girl/boy romance in the background, this movie is about the brotherly love between two men. This film is an awesome and very funny contribution to the the “straight man-love films“ genre, along with classics like The Fast and the Furious and Brian’s Song. Also Fight Club was a kind of straight man-love film, except that (warning: massive spoiler alert, just in case you recently travelled to my blog in a time machine from the 80s) in Fight Club the two straight dudes turn out to be one crazy dude played by two actors who then blow a lot of stuff up. So Fight Club may be more in the “Narcissistic Psychotic Self-Romance / Apocolypse Crossover” genre, which is a fairly narrow genre. Are there any other films in this genre? Maybe Angelheart would count. All right, a prize to any of my readers who can come up with another movie in that genre.
- Director: John Hamburg
- Length: 1 hour, 45 minutes
- IMDB: I love you, Man (2009)
