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My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

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14

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 50

My Best Friend's Girl spends too much time being vulgar and offensive, leaving little room for laughs.

17

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10

My Best Friend's Girl spends too much time being vulgar and offensive, leaving little room for laughs.

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51

liked it
Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 84,749

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Movie Info

Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, and Alec Baldwin star in this romantic comedy about a man (Cook) who makes his living convincing women to run back into the arms of the men they have recently dumped by taking them on the worst possible dates imaginable. The nightmare lothario's lucrative scheme hits an unexpected hitch, however, when he is hired by his best friend (Jason Biggs) to take out the beauty he longs to win back. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 43 min.

Drama, Comedy

Jordan Cahan

Jan 13, 2009

$19.2M

Lionsgate

Cast

All Critics (59) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (52) | DVD (5)

There's something genuinely transgressive beneath the movie's rom-com surface, though director Howard Deutch keeps retreating to the safety of frat-boy humor.

December 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
Chicago Reader
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The inexplicable romantic comedy career of Dane Cook marches on.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment (1)
Boston Globe
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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.

September 22, 2008 Comment
New York Times
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Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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An 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.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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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.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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Inane, raunchy romantic comedy inspires no love.

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

...ultimately falls prey to the melodramatic silliness that one has come to expect from the romantic comedy genre.

September 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comments (2)
Reel Film Reviews

mostly unwatchable

February 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comments (2)
Filmcritic.com

A trophy hottie who can't get enough of all the crude sexual insults this lowlife male pig - without lipstick - is dispensing as effective foreplay, while succumbing to his extreme dirty talk as the ultimate aphrodisiac.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

This is one of those films that would be enormously improved by the arrival of 100 crazy Somali pirates who would proceed to take the entire cast hostage.

November 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | Comment (1)
Daily Mail [UK]

Tedious, largely unfunny and poorly written comedy with the least likeable collection of characters you'll see all year.

November 21, 2008 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment (1)
ViewLondon

Yet another in a continuing line of dismal Dane Cook so-called romantic comedies.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

It's a wonder the guys don't just wear Flintstone loincloths. Now let's hear it: Yabba-dabba-don't.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Teletext | Comment
Teletext

Any schmuck with a typewriter and a dirty mouth can test the limits of good taste; it's something else entirely to push the boundaries of narrative possibility and emotional empathy.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment (1)
Austin Chronicle

A rude, crude romantic comedy with a touch of nastiness that's refreshing and quite funny.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

You should steer well clear of the nasty ideas that screenwriter Jordan Cahan has about relationships and how they work.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | Comment
FILMINK (Australia)

A film that truly bites.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Comment
Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Dane Cook proves why he is one of American comedy's favourite big-time naughty boys in this fast, funny, foul-tongued but sweet-natured adult-skewed romantic comedy.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | Comment
The Age (Australia)

The film veers off into that realm of unbelievability that I react against. But there is a certain fascination in watching Cook strut his stuff (and boy does he strut), and Kate Hudson is pleasant to watch.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | Comment
At the Movies (Australia)

If you like watching anarchy in action, this exhibition has its moments, but the anti-woman humour underpinning it -- and Cook's whole performance -- does cast a pall.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comments (3)
Sydney Morning Herald
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Audience Reviews for My Best Friend's Girl

A master at seducing and offending women, Tank is a professional. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives an experience so horrible it sends them running back to their ex's.An outrageous,(at times) sexy, no-holds-barred romantic comedy

June 29, 2010
BEACHBUNNI
♥Robyn M♥

Super Reviewer

I can't say that this movie was amazing for story line or anything but I laughed my ass off almost the whole movie. It's basically like a male alternative to a "chick flick". Year it's rude and crude but.... IT"S DANE COOK! if you went in thinking that it would be anything less then your just dumb, The trailers showed

April 10, 2010
MizturY0da
MisterYoda ?

Super Reviewer

    1. Professor Turner: She is the best thing in my life. But I never asked her whether I am the best thing in her life.
    – Submitted by Han N (10 months ago)

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