Just Friends (2005)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 57
There are moments of mirth in this overly broad comedy, but mostly, Just Friends is just not that funny.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 19
There are moments of mirth in this overly broad comedy, but mostly, Just Friends is just not that funny.
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A hotshot thirtysomething record executive tries to win over the girl who once liked him only "as a friend" in this slapstick comedy. In high school, Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) was an overweight, maladroit teen who spent every waking moment with his co-ed pal Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart). On the verge of graduation, Chris is humiliated when his yearbook confession to Jamie -- that he wants to be more than "just friends" -- is read aloud. Jamie is flattered, but rebuffs his advances, and Chris
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Cast
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Ryan Reynolds
Chris Brander -
Amy Smart
Jamie Palamino -
Anna Faris
Samantha James -
Chris Klein
Dusty Dinkleman -
Christopher George Marque...
Mike Brander -
Julie Hagerty
Carol Brander -
Stephen Root
K.C. -
Fred Ewanuick
Clark -
Ty Olsson
Tim -
Amy Matysio
Darla -
Barry Flatman
Mr. Palamino -
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (57) | DVD (14)
Just Friends is just stupid.
Top CriticJust Friends is part Farrelly Brothers and part Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, all wrapped together to deliver gross-out gags in bizarrely random and rapid-fire fashion, with zero intent to develop sustainable plot or character.
Just Friends hangs its crude, clobbering sense of humor on a dubious theory.
... while the ending might be a foregone conclusion, getting there involves just enough slapstick manful idiocy to keep the humor moving at a clip.
A barbed romantic comedy with a distinct debt to the Farrelly brothers' gross-out-plus-sentimentality formula, Just Friends is a welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.
In all, it's not too bad and it's not too long, and any movie that sets Santa on fire is okay by me.
Not particularly original, Just Friends works largely due to Reynolds' screen charisma and comic timing, but it does work, and works well.
Despite a rich premise, Just Friends ultimately fails to live up to its early potential, settling into broad comedy that shortchanges the romantic possibilities.
No one will be surprised by the plot machinations that ensue, but the film is saved from utter tedium thanks to a relatively intelligent screenplay and the amiability of the leads.
Um bom conceito (e não estou dizendo que este é bom) só funciona quando amparado por um bom roteiro. E definitivamente não é isto que ocorre aqui.
Every single person operates with the maturity and common sense of a dog chasing its tail. Into a tree.
Painfully light on laughs.
Ana Faris as the blonde bimbette pop star character is worth the price of rental, alone.
Bursting at the seams with lashings of heart, this is comedy at its broadest, with larger-than-life situations, a smartly sharp script and knock-out performances from an instantly likeable cast.
Reynolds' brand of sarcastic humour suits his part well, whilst Smart is as adorable here as she was in The Butterfly Effect.
Audience Reviews for Just Friends
Super Reviewer
I do like this - Amy Smart is a good actress and Anna Farris is funny here too. I also find Chris's mum quite funny and it is a good Xmas movie being set that time of year.
But as a romance it is a fail.
Super Reviewer
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- Chris Brander: The truth is, I'm scared to be your friend, because I'm always going to want more. But then I got to thinking that I would rather have you in my life as a friend than not at all.
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