My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
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.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 11
My Best Friend's Girl spends too much time being vulgar and offensive, leaving little room for laughs.
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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
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Cast
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Dane Cook
Sherman "Tank" Turner -
Kate Hudson
Alexis -
Jason Biggs
Dustin -
Alec Baldwin
Professor Turner -
Diora Baird
Rachel -
Lizzy Caplan
Ami -
Riki Lindhome
Hilary -
Malcolm Barrett
Dwalu -
Hilary Pingle
Claire -
Faye Grant
Merrilee -
Taran Killam
Josh -
Nate Torrence
Craig -
Richard C. Snee
Brian -
Amanda Brooks
Carly -
Scott Winters
Annoying Co-Worker -
Jenny Mollen
Colleen -
Andrew Caldwell
Sad Dork -
Alberto Bonilla
Pedro
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All Critics (59) | Top Critics (13) | 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.
Top CriticThe inexplicable romantic comedy career of Dane Cook marches on.
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.
Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.
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.
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.
Inane, raunchy romantic comedy inspires no love.
...ultimately falls prey to the melodramatic silliness that one has come to expect from the romantic comedy genre.
mostly unwatchable
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.
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.
Tedious, largely unfunny and poorly written comedy with the least likeable collection of characters you'll see all year.
Yet another in a continuing line of dismal Dane Cook so-called romantic comedies.
It's a wonder the guys don't just wear Flintstone loincloths. Now let's hear it: Yabba-dabba-don't.
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.
A rude, crude romantic comedy with a touch of nastiness that's refreshing and quite funny.
You should steer well clear of the nasty ideas that screenwriter Jordan Cahan has about relationships and how they work.
A film that truly bites.
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.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for My Best Friend's Girl
Super Reviewer
One thing that I loved about this movie is that it wasn't so fake. most guys in chick flicks are so wonderful then they just make one mistake and spend the rest of the movie trying to fix it till everyone lives happily ever after. This movie isn't like that at all.
One last thing I liked is that I couldn't have predicted just how far he would go to mess things up, so the shock value of almost everything he says is awesome. Everyone in the Theater I was in was laugh through the movie too. I can't believe it got such a bad rating here but I guess I've also seen movies on here with high ratings that just sucked. whatever.
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- Professor Turner: She is the best thing in my life. But I never asked her whether I am the best thing in her life.
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