I Love You, Man

[2.5
stars] [IMDb Link]

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Disclaimer: you'll probably like this movie better than I did. I mean, check out that decent score from IMDB.

Paul Rudd plays Peter: for one reason or another, he's never had any close male friends. Dilemma: he's getting married, and finds himself in desperate need of a best man. Fortuitously, he meets Sydney, played by Jason Segal. Sydney is very quirky, however; one of his endearing traits is to not clean up his dog's public pooping, and then going postal on anyone who calls him on it. The relationship between Peter and Sydney is a rocky one, and threatens to break apart Peter's engagement.

All this is accompanied by (as the MPAA puts it) "pervasive language, including crude and sexual references." "Pervasive" doesn't really do it justice; more like "ubiquitous". Also gratuitous. I'm no prude, and maybe this movie just caught me on a bad evening, but …

In addition, although I think the Peter/Sydney characters are meant to be charmingly "quirky" and "endearing," they went off into "whiny" and "annoying" much too often.

On the plus side: Jane Curtin, J.K. Simmons, and Lou Ferrigno. And it's not totally without laughs. And (as I said) you might like it more than I did.


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