My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

Fantastic!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

I hated everything about this film. The casting was awful and the characters deserved to be hated. Thats not something I say lightly. Alexis is a total bi**h. She treats Dustin like crap and somehow its OK but when he treats her like anything less than perfectly shes outraged and make the traditional romantic drama "victim woman".Then there is the ending where Dustin is pawned off with Alexis' roommate Ami. Now I don't know about you but I would never hook up with someone who could be friends with a girl who treated me like sh*t. I have to say that I hated this film worse than "How to lose a Guy in 10 days" which was pretty bad.

The poster for the movie is totally misleading. It suggests a romantic comedy. Well, it's not!I didn't expect the crude sex humor, the use of bad words, and more. I enjoyed it. The whole dating goes wrong sub-plot worked for me. Dane Cook is a decent actor and manages to explore his comedic skills with a ladies man performance that makes everything wrong.Kate Hudson finally delivers a decent performance. And Jason Biggs demonstrates he is a very funny guy.Sure, the humor may remind you about "American Pie" and some other teen sex efforts, but it surely works. Watch it with low expectations.

Dane Cook looks really handsome enough. Too bad his talent doesn't match his good looks. Some comedians in this day and age, like let's say, Steve Carell, can get away with being bad actors once in a while because they at least have charm and talent inside. But Dane Cook has nothing. No talent, no charm. He is just coarse, crass, cringeworthy, and foul-mouthed throughout "My Best Friend's Girl." His comedy style is an acquired taste, and I can see why.Then there is Kate Hudson. She always had enough charm but what she really needs is a hit. She really hasn't had a hit since being nominated for an Oscar for "Almost Famous" back in 2000, which wasn't a comedy. Since then, she wants to follow the footsteps of her famous mother Goldie Hawn in romantic comedy after romantic comedy. So far, she hasn't found anything yet, and all of her subsequent movies have been flops. Hopefully, a hit will follow her soon.I haven't seen any of the "American Pie" movies, but I realize that when you see the name Jason Biggs, you know he will pop in some raucous gross-out comedy that will satisfy the Generation X crowd.Take these three actors, Dane Cook being the worst one of them all, and put them into "My Best Friend's Girl." There is nothing but vomit jokes and continuous swearing that is never funny. Cook plays the supercool hustler Tank, who is hired by his nerdy close friend Dustin (Biggs) to go out on a date with his coworker and ex-girlfriend, Alexis (Hudson). Tank is the kind of guy who has one night stands women from failed relationships and returns them to their exes. Predictably, Tank and Alexis fall in love. More gross-outs and fights ensue. We get to see less of Dustin, and the story concentrates mostly on Tank with Alexis in the middle. There is a cameo by Alec Baldwin as Tank's equally lecherous and foul-mouthed father. Even Baldwin doesn't help.The movie is too long. The characters are all despicable. Someone like Kate Hudson really knows better, and audience members keep asking themselves "What's a sweet, nice gal like Kate Hudson doing in dreck like this?" Hudson is too perky and sweet to be vulgar. I believe being brought up by Goldie and Kurt, she doesn't seem the gross-out type like let's say, Cameron Diaz, whose gross-out humor from "There's Something Like Mary" was actually convincingly funny, and that's why she was the gross-out queen of the late 1990s. Everyone else acts really nasty in this movie. Dane Cook is just nasty. I don't like nasty humor. 1980s teen comedy director Howard Deutch returns to helm this haphazard train wreck sloppily. A total mess, skip this floperoo, which it was at the box office.

My friend and I watched this DVD Saturday because we like Kate Hudson. Was going to turn it off 4 or 5 times and wish we had. We thought Kate was not that poor judge of movies and does have good movies so we THOUGHT IT WOULD redeem itself soon---FAT chance! Thought she was like her mom and Kurt--not so, she was not that hard up that she had to do this vulgar, revolting movie!! It will be off our Library shelves in Ohio if I have anything to do with it!! Must prove she is HUDSON... Ohio's Hudson's are ashamed for sure!! WE were so disappointed in her choice and ours! Kate is to be a role model for the industry!! Guess not! My friend said she would have walked out in the movies. Reason anyone went to see it was because of Kate I'm sure --- Her morality may have changed and she may have wanted to have a sex scene w/cook??? We thought he was not good looking at all---UGGHH so nauseating ---Worst movie we have ever seen!!! OH Kate, dear what where you thinking!!! YOU are in our prayers now. Your values are so wrong to choose this as a mom --YOU are your son's role model. Think woman before you act in a movie. What will he be like when he grows up with the values I give him & then when he sees this ever. Kate did deliver her lines well from an acting point of view but there are so many other things that would be so much better. Have never sent in a review on anything before but this just had to be said!