Shawn's My Best Friend's Girl

2008 Movie #117 - My Best Friend's Girl

What the fuck was the thought behind this one? They tried to make a gross-out vulgar comedy that guys would like, combined with the usual romantic comedy shenanigans that women like. In the end, they failed at both.

Dane Cook is now 0/3. It would be one thing if each of his movies was decent, or even bad. But each one of them has been just awful. Stop with the vulgar comedies that also try to be sweet! Either do a fucking straight forward comedy or a fucking romantic comedy. I get that it's probably an attempt to show range but just start with one thing at a time. Move on to the next thing once you've done a decent job with the first.

This movie spends the first hour as an an R rated comedy and none of it is very funny at all. There's maybe a couple of good lines but other than that, not a whole lot going on. Then all of a sudden it's like the movie forgot what it had just done and decided that it's actually a sweet comedy...that's also vulgar. It's hard to be both and this movie has no clue what it's doing. However the only decent laughs come in this final part with the wedding sequence.

There is pretty much no likable character in this movie which certainly doesn't make things more bearable. Jason Bigg's character is borderline a sociopath, almost stalking a women he has known for 5 weeks and is obsessing over. I don't know if his character is supposed to be sympathetic or not but every time his character was on screen I just wanted a guy with a huge fucking net to come, capture him and take him away.

Dane Cook plays the asshole who redeems himself, but the redemption never really feels genuine and his character never becomes the sympathetic person the movie wants him to be. Kate Hudson...well I just don't know what the hell she is doing here? She read the script right? Then again after Fools Gold, her terrible choices should never really surprise me.

This is a schizophrenic movie that is neither funny nor romantic. I can't wait until next September when Dane Cook tries this again.

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