My Best Friend's Wife (2001)

Fantastic!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Picked up for $2.99 in the 'previously viewed' bin, I'd summarize this as, 'not as good as hoped, but better than feared'.'My Best Friend's Wife/Grownups' was engaging enough. Personally, I find the topic intriguing and have an inherent interest in seeing how different treatments. This movie really isn't comedic, rather, I'd say perhaps 'romantically melodramatic in a somewhat witty way'. I found the characters to be reasonably believable. The plot turns and some of the dialog, seemed somewhat less so. Personally, I thought that directly tying Steve's interest to the loss of the move to San Francisco, and Amy's interest to a direct trade for starting a family, as a bit of an unnecessary stretch. Those aspects of the plot just seemed to be a 'too obvious' screenwriter's device to get past the 'first they said no, now they need to say yes' problem.As such, my capsule review would be: "A worthwhile rental for those with a bit of interest in the topic, probably not strong enough to interest anyone who doesn't.'

John Stamos did a great job, but can't say that about the rest of the cast. The movie is thought provoking with a load of laughs. Made me love Stamos' acting so much because of the funny lines he delivered with an absolute straight and serious face. I had to pause many times just so I could hear the movie through my own laughter! The best parts of the movie are when Stamos is trying to convince his wife - he actually goes all out to make his point across. That took guts on his character. And the second one, was when Stamos was stating the DOs and Don''ts to his friend and wives- his facial gestures and body language in this scene makes the whole movie worthwhile.It was a sad pain to watch Daniel London. He almost made me turn the movie off. Very whiny and sissy. But he does play a very crucial role. I recommend to watch this either by yourself or with a very happy crowd if you are throwing a friends get together.

I enjoyed this film, and it did actually make me think about relationships, specifically monogamy and such. The writing and direction are clever at times, and the performances are uniformly efficient at telling the story. That's the best and worst I can say about it, meaning nothing was really stand-out, but nothing was *wrong* per se, either.

Two childhood best friends grow up and are still best friends at age 30, but now are both married, one to his first girlfriend. Their lives have become far more boring than they would like, and what were once jokes about wife swapping begin to be taken seriously, first by the men and eventually by the women, as a last act of wildness before becoming grownups.The comedy works fairly well, but the actors are not good enough to make the premise believable or to carry off the dramatic scenes. To the writers' credit, the complications that ensue are not simply the obvious ones. The film has high production values and it tied for the audience award at Cinequest (the San Jose, CA film festival) for best dramatic feature, so perhaps it has a chance of getting distribution. I saw it on 3/2/2002.