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Just Friends (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:10
Rotten:16
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: There are moments of mirth in this overly broad comedy, but mostly, Just Friends is just not that funny.
Theatrical Release:Nov 23, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $32,596,916
Synopsis: The romantic comedy JUST FRIENDS stars Ryan Reynolds as a former high school geek turned trendy Los Angeles music executive. When he gets stranded in his New Jersey home town due to bad weather... [More]
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Reviews for Just Friends
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12/06/05
Top CriticJust Friends is just stupid.
11/29/05
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.
11/28/05
Top CriticJust Friends hangs its crude, clobbering sense of humor on a dubious theory.
11/28/05
Top Critic... while the ending might be a foregone conclusion, getting there involves just enough slapstick manful idiocy to keep the humor moving at a clip.
11/28/05
Top CriticA 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.
11/28/05
Top CriticIn all, it's not too bad and it's not too long, and any movie that sets Santa on fire is okay by me.
11/23/05
Top CriticAfter peaking with the unsurpassable glories of 2003's Bad Santa, the humbug holiday genre may be getting run into the ground.
11/23/05
Top CriticIt's a thoroughly enjoyable three- or four-gimmick comedy, highlighted by a whorish dimwit pop star played by Anna Faris.
11/23/05
Top CriticAfter watching a movie like Just Friends, I hurry home from the theater and take a shower so I can wash away the stink of the experience.
11/23/05
Top CriticThanks to director Roger Kumble's breathless pacing, Just Friends manages to outrun most of its flaws.
11/23/05
Top CriticJust Friends is funnier the sillier it gets, perhaps hitting a crescendo during the slap fights between the brothers, who begin beating each other with regularity, as if they'd never stopped.
11/23/05
Top CriticWith its slapstick car wrecks and sports injuries, the movie is like a Michael Bay take on Garden State. It wants to be painfully funny, but it really is just plain painful to watch.
11/23/05
Top CriticJust Friends shows that a lifeless idea can rise up out of its script crypt and put a stranglehold on 2,000-plus screens.
11/23/05
Top CriticEvery holiday season welcomes a big-screen turkey, and this one's got extra stuffing.
11/23/05
Top CriticThere have been worse premises for a romantic comedy, but director Roger Kumble and writer Adam "Tex" Davis could scarcely have done a worse job developing it.
11/23/05
Top Critic[A] cheerily clean and notably bright teen comedy.
11/23/05
Top CriticThink of Just Friends as this season's answer to last year's Surviving Christmas, making you wonder what you did to deserve more movie coal in your stocking.
11/23/05
Top CriticThe movie too often withers under a barrage of predictable gags, which are doled out in uneven slices.
11/23/05
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