Mean, crass and tasteless, "My Best Friend's Girl" is only pretending to be a romantic comedy.
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09/27/08
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $19,151,864
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
Hitch has nothing on My Best Friend's Girl... the best romance since The Notebook.
09/26/08
An insulting, wholly unpleasant excuse for a comedy.
09/25/08
It's a movie that ultimately fails because it features characters that are so unlikeable that it's difficult to care whether they form a love connection or not
09/24/08
When it comes right down to it, the less said about the movie the better. But in lieu of that, let's just tackle it, vilify it, screw it to the wall, and send it back into the sewer from which it came.
09/24/08
Induces that dull pain at the back of the head that I believe to be the result of brain cells crawling away to die of embarrassment.
09/24/08
Golden Girl Kate Hudson gets tarnished by associating with Dane Cook in this tasteless, terrible movie
09/23/08
Raunchy and wretched...profoundly unfunny and sophomoric sludge...meaningless material that wouldn't be suitable for lining your pet parrot's birdcage.
09/23/08
Cahan's curious and increasingly sincere slant on modern romance outshines its efforts to please Cook's MySpace fan base with gross-out gags (some of which are damned funny).
09/23/08
In order for My Best Friend's Girl to work at all, it needs a leading man with the charisma to suggest the soulful, lovelorn gentleman behind the crude serial womanizer.
09/22/08
The inexplicable romantic comedy career of Dane Cook marches on.
09/22/08
The movie can't seem to follow its own internal logic.
09/22/08
There are no surprises here, but speedy pacing and a smattering of laughs along the way, as well as a knowing turn by Alec Baldwin as Tank’s even more piggish father, make My Best Friend’s Girl a date not entirely to be skipped.
09/22/08
Top CriticUltimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.
09/22/08
Top CriticAn ugly, strictly-for-meatheads comedy that can only be recommended to couples who wear matching Tie Domi Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys out on a date.
09/22/08
It lacks the courage of its swinish convictions, and abruptly acquiesces to bland rom-com clichés three-quarters of the way to its appointed end.
09/22/08
It borrows from much funnier movies such as Hitch, Wedding Crashers and My Best Friend's Wedding. Never has a romantic comedy seemed less romantic or less comedic.
09/22/08
Top CriticA light smattering of funny moments can't save this misogynistic, feel-bad romantic comedy.
09/21/08
A nauseating fraud from start to finish ... The film's level of awfulness is nothing new for Cook, but Hudson hits a new low.
09/21/08
My Best Friend's Girl ultimately fails to measure up to its own standards.
09/21/08
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