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You, Me and Dupree (2006)

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Reviews Counted:34

Fresh:4

Rotten:30

Average Rating:4.3/10

Consensus: A rather generic entry into the arrested development subgenre, with themes borrowed from other more successful and funnier films. Dupree wears out its welcome.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content, brief nudity, crude humor, language and a drug reference

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jul 14, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $75,604,320

Synopsis: Several of the hottest comic talents in the film world today headline the story of a loveable, well-meaning, but arrested adolescent who drives his best friends nuts in the new comedy You, Me and... Several of the hottest comic talents in the film world today headline the story of a loveable, well-meaning, but arrested adolescent who drives his best friends nuts in the new comedy You, Me and Dupree. OWEN WILSON, coming off of the biggest comic sensation of the past several years with Wedding Crashers, now brings his latest character—free-spirited bachelor and permanent houseguest Randolph Dupree—straight to the film's front door. KATE HUDSON (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key) stars as Molly Peterson, the understanding—yet put upon—schoolteacher bride of Dupree's oldest friend Carl (MATT DILLON, There's Something About Mary, Crash). Joining the trio, two-time Oscar® winner MICHAEL DOUGLAS (Wall Street, The War of the Roses) plays Molly's dad (and Carl's boss), the doting-yet-scheming real estate tycoon Mr. Thompson, while SETH ROGEN (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) plays Carl and Dupree's good buddy Neil. Face it. No matter who you are, you have met, dated, loaned money to, bailed out of a jam or played host to a Dupree. Who among us doesn't have that wayward, slacker friend who marches to the beat of his own drum? We all know a Dupree: the good-hearted confidante, that party animal who can drink us under the table while dispensing unique wisdom into our lives…and who loves nothing more than couch channel-surfing while the rest of the world trudges off to the daily grind. In You, Me and Dupree, Carl and Molly have found the one unfortunate hitch in their perfectly constructed newly wedded world: Dupree. A slacker with the soul of a poet, Dupree just can't seem to catch a break from "The Man." When he takes a week off to best-man Carl and Molly's marriage in Hawaii, Dupree gets the unceremonious heave-ho from his boss. Now jobless, car-less and evicted from the cot at his favorite watering hole, he just needs to crash with the Petersons for a couple of days; okay, maybe a month or so... At first, Carl is psyched to have the couch guest while Molly bears the brunt of Dupree's well-meaning antics. But, as Carl becomes buried in his grown-up job of land development and headaches, he finds it hard to juggle Dupree and his newlywed responsibilities. As time passes, his and Molly's houseguest uses his ample spare time to become a great companion to her, underscoring Carl's new workaholic tendencies. Even Molly's dad begins to fall for Dupree's carefree wisdom, frustrating Carl to no end. Soon, everyone (but Carl) begins to root for Dupree to stick around. But just as the impish buddy starts becoming a fixture in the Petersons' home, three becomes not just a crowd...but a full-blown comic catastrophe. As the couple realizes their ideas of a white-picket fence marriage are morphing, their loveable pal serves as a daily reminder that finding your inner Dupree might just be one of life's hidden secrets. For anyone who has ever longed to live by the seat of her pants or go where the wind blows him comes a comedy from Emmy Award-winning directors ANTHONY & JOE RUSSO (Arrested Development). The directing duo helm the wildly comic story from first-time screenwriter MICHAEL LE SIEUR of a suburban couple who are just trying to make their new marriage work when her and me unexpectedly become You, Me and Dupree. The inaugural feature from the new production company formed by longtime partners SCOTT STUBER and MARY PARENT, You, Me and Dupree is also produced by Wilson. Stuber comes to Dupree fresh from his recent production with Vince Vaughn of The Break-Up, the highest-opening romantic comedy of all-time. The film is executive produced by MICHAEL FOTTRELL (Sweet Home Alabama), AARON KAPLAN (Dead Asleep) and SEAN PERRONE (Dead Asleep). The creative team supporting the Russo brothers includes director of photography CHARLES MINSKY (Raising Helen), film editors PETER B. ELLIS (television's Carnivàle) and DEBRA NEIL-FISHER (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). Production designer BARRY ROBISON (Wedding Crashers) returns to work with Wilson for the film. The music is by ROLFE KENT (Failure to Launch); music supervisor is RANDALL POSTER (The School of Rock). Costume designer for the film is Karen Patch (The School of Rock). -- © Universal Pictures [More]

Starring: Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson, Seth Rogen

Starring: Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson, Seth Rogen, Amanda Detmer, Michael Douglas

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Screenwriter: Michael LeSieur
Producer: Mary Parent, Scott Stuber, Aaron Kaplan
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Studio: Universal Pictures

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You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome but a compilation reel of Wilson's scenes would make for fairly funny viewing.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
08/06/06
Hap Erstein
Hap Erstein
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Owen Wilson is perilously close to doing a Dupree on his own career, by wearing out his welcome.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
07/14/06
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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You, Me and Dupree seems to have been made by people who don't know the difference between a light comedy and an inconsequential one.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
07/14/06
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Amiable if ragtag.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
07/14/06
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Gifted though [the directors] may be in smaller doses, they’re a long way from mastering the art of feature-length comedy.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
07/14/06
John Hartl
John Hartl
Newsweek
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Wilson deserves better, too. He's too smart to make me believe he'd actually think this movie is funny.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
07/14/06
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Watching [Wilson] mug wildly in another uneven film short on plot, the audience may start to wish he would go away for awhile and stop turning up in such repetitive comedies.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
07/14/06
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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Think of the uncompromisingly mediocre comedy You, Me and Dupree as a referendum on whether audiences are tiring of Owen Wilson's beatific stoner dude character as rapidly as I am.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/14/06
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Wilson, Dillon and Hudson are likable stars, and there are moments when their characters make a convincing circle of friends. But the Russo brothers don't have the maturity to blend the two prongs of the story they've written.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/14/06
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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If Wilson's trademark grin is looking jaundiced by the finale, he has only himself to blame. With You, Me and Dupree, he has produced a movie as lazy and immature as its title character.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
07/14/06
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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You, Me & Dupree is best when Wilson is on-screen, mucking around with exquisite deadbeat timing, baring his all -- or his almost -- as the situation demands.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/14/06
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
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Director brothers Anthony and Joe Russo manage to keep the pace moving for the first two-thirds, steering clear of overt touchy-feeliness or extreme gross-outs. Then they suddenly lose their grip, and Wilson's good 20 minutes is up.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/14/06
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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You, Me and Dupree is lazy, obvious, never emotionally real and, most unfortunately, sporadically funny at best. It's a movie you've seen before and you've seen done better. Owen, it's time to grow up.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
07/14/06
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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If you've seen the trailer, you've seen only half the movie -- and all the jokes.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
07/14/06
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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You, Me and Dupree mostly sputters.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
07/14/06
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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When he's firing on all cylinders, Wilson plays the trickster catalyst, the knowing knave with charming lassitude. Now if only his accidental sage can find a fable worth his goofball wisdom.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
07/14/06
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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You, Me and Dupree features three first-rate actors in need of a first-rate movie.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
07/14/06
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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You, Me and Dupree has the feel of a film that could have gone in any number of directions, and perhaps at one time went in all of them.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
07/14/06
Jim Emerson
Jim Emerson
Chicago Sun-Times
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Wilson is the most intolerable of all. Watching him slack his way through this movie made me feel like Lou Dobbs. I didn't like Dupree. I wanted him deported.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
07/14/06
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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This is cringe-inducing humor at its most wooden.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
07/13/06
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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