My Best Friend's Girl

2008 "It's funny what love can make you do..."
5.8| 1h41m| R| en
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Lovestruck Dustin is dating Alexis, his ideal girlfriend, but when she dumps him for coming on too strong, Dustin takes drastic measures to win her back. He asks his best friend Tank to take her on the worst rebound date imaginable - his side job - so that she will come running back to him, and Tank reluctantly agrees. However, Alexis is more than a match for Tank's shock tactics and he begins to really fall for her, leaving him torn between loyalty to Dustin and his growing attraction toward Alexis.

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Tetrady not as good as all the hype
Konterr Brilliant and touching
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Raul Faust Hollywood has always enjoyed (and gained) producing movies involving sleazebags and the problems women face with them, and that can be related to this film's storyline. Jason Biggs plays an ingenuous guy-- tell me something new in here-- whose girlfriend doesn't care about him, since he is too nice to provoke her some attraction. As you can imagine, this guy, Dustin, has a best friend who is the biggest jerk of America, and as predictable as it could be, this guy begins dating Dustin's girlfriend, Alexis. Things get a little more complicated than that, especially when the writers make Alexis an unscrupulous girl, whose attraction to jerks is simply out of control. Dustin's best friend does a lot of bad things for her, and it takes time to make her see that. In fact, there are some funny scenes in which the new couple get in big fights, but end up kissing each other-- which remembers English's black humor productions we've seen here and there. A funny scene that came in my mind was when Alexis and Tank were meeting for the first time, and she seemed to be the exact opposite of what you may expect for a girl. She drinks a lot, she doesn't mind going on a date in a strip club, which impresses even Tank. It's great to notice how real this plot feels-- despite some few scenes--, in a way that everybody that think of someone who likes jerks instead of nice guys, and maybe that's what makes this film so ironically hilarious. Also, it's great to see Kate Hudson and Dane Cook stealing the show with such GREAT performances. Teenage and young adult audience are more likely to enjoy this production... Or maybe even older people are going to like it, considering the subject is quite universal. I'd recommend it to my friends, anyways.
danail_1131 Please, somebody tell to miss Hudson read screenplay, before acting in movies. Please, somebody tell to Mr. Cook - go back to bar, and never again try to by a movie actor. Please, somebody tell to Jason Biggs - back to last job, before you start your carrier. Please, Mr. Doitch - stop directing a movies, you are not for this job. Please, somebody tell a screenwriter - before you write something new - read a some books, or better - never again write. Hollywood lose your sense fora a good rom-com. If you, folks, need a good rom-com white black satiric humor, please search a from something different place - maybe a British movies, or from another European country. Escuse my bad English - just this not my birth language.
Paul Celano (chelano) OK a lot of Dane Cook's dialog in this film was like his stand up. At first it is pretty funny and you get some laughs, but then it just goes too far and gets kind of boring. I mean don't get me wrong, there were a few parts that really had me laughing from what he said. But then it would go over the top to the point of not funny. Jason Biggs was not that funny at all. I think there was one part that really made me laugh with him. Since the American Pies, I think his career just died. Kate Hudson was fine. She is always a joy to watch and seems to do a great to decent job whenever she acts. The one side actor that threw me off was Alec Baldwin. Recently, or more like in the past four years, Baldwin has set himself as one character from the show 30 Rock. In this film he was a little like that character, but at points just acted really bad. It was just not the type of movie for him. Other than that, the story line was pretty weak and they tried to make a big ending and failed at that also.
jdmommyjd This was one of the best comedies I have ever seen. I literally had beverage spewing out of my mouth. Those who didn't like it? Well they must be more the conservative prudish type. Was it a little raunchy? yes. But thats partly what made it so funny. When you are thinking "o no he didn't" you then see "o yes he did". Dane cook is absolutely friggen hilarious! And anyone who knows dane cook knows his comedy style. So you get what you are expecting. No, you get better! I didn't see this at the movies- it was a rental. And glad I didn't because the laughter would have drowned out the movie! But, it would ahev been worth it. Maybe I just have a dirty/nasty sense of humor, but i have recommended this movie to all my friends and family.