My Best Friend's Girl
In this comedy from director Howard Deutch (The Whole Ten Yards), Dane Cook plays Tank - a professional 'bad date'. Guys who’ve just been canned by their girlfriends hire him to take their exes out, show them how vulgar other guys can be and send them scurrying back to their previous relationship. Jason Biggs plays Dustin – Tank's best mate – who's just been dumped. He enlists his buddy's unorthodox services, but doesn't count on his sassy and gorgeous ex Alexis (Kate Hudson) actually liking the obnoxious prick.
An almighty slapstick love triangle ensues as Tank juggles his growing feelings for Alexis with his loyalty to his friend, while Dustin decides to become more like Tank to win his girl back. Who will she choose? The asshole or... the other asshole?
- Director:
- Howard Deutch ('The Whole Ten Yards')
- Writer:
- Jordan Cahan
- Cast:
- Dane CookKate HudsonAlec BaldwinJason BiggsDiora BairdLizzy Caplan
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Andreas Heinemann
flicksIt seems that romantic comedies are moving away from their sweet as sugar roots and incorporating a ruder, coarser approach to getting laughs. Similar to outings like Wedding Crashers and Knocked Up, My Best Friend's Girl touches up the traditionally girly template with a liberal dose of laddish laughs. What next, action blockbusters for the ladies? That'd be ... interesting.
Variety
pressManages to distract auds from the predictability of the plot with fusillades of profanely funny dialogue and some playfully sexy chemistry generated by Cook and Hudson.
The New York Times
pressA date not entirely to be skipped. It's a movie tailor-made for those who think it's a turn-on to passionately kiss someone to whom they've just said, "I hate you."
New Zealand Herald
pressStruggles to find a balance between being a romantic comedy and a loutish, irreverent comedy.
Los Angeles Times
pressUltimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.
Hollywood Reporter
pressEventually the conventions of romantic comedy take hold, with the humor declining precipitously.
Flicks, Andreas Heinemann
flicksIt seems that romantic comedies are moving away from their sweet as sugar roots and incorporating a ruder, coarser approach to getting laughs. Similar to outings like Wedding Crashers and Knocked Up, My Best Friend's Girl touches up the traditionally girly template with a liberal dose of laddish laughs. What next, action blockbusters for the ladies? That'd be ... interesting.
Variety
pressManages to distract auds from the predictability of the plot with fusillades of profanely funny dialogue and some playfully sexy chemistry generated by Cook and Hudson.
The New York Times
pressA date not entirely to be skipped. It's a movie tailor-made for those who think it's a turn-on to passionately kiss someone to whom they've just said, "I hate you."
New Zealand Herald
pressStruggles to find a balance between being a romantic comedy and a loutish, irreverent comedy.
Los Angeles Times
pressUltimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.
Hollywood Reporter
pressEventually the conventions of romantic comedy take hold, with the humor declining precipitously.
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