Pardon my French, but I Love You, Man is the best effing comedy I’ve seen all year (and probably will see all year).
Gracias to Paramount Pictures
Peter (Paul Rudd) just got engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones), who has many close girlfriends. He, however, has no close male friends. He has always been very devoted to his girlfriends over the years and never spent time developing lasting friendships with men. Since his wedding is coming up and he is without a Best Man, Peter goes on a series of “man-dates” to find a BFF. After the predictable slew of ridiculous potential friends, Peter meets Sydney Fife (Jason Segal). This is when the movie truly begins.
Sydney is the coolest friend a guy (or girl) could have. He enjoys people-watching and is a keen observer of men who wait until their significant other is at a far enough distance to release a fart. He rides a Vespa and lives in a wooden cottage right by the Venice boardwalk. His “Man Cave” houses many television sets, movie posters, strange artifacts, a wet bar, and all the instruments for a four-hour jam session. He’s open and sincere and constantly introduces Peter to new, exciting things. Inexplicably though, he wears swimming trunks and Uggs when walking his dog on the sandy beach.
I particularly loved the inclusion of Rush songs in the movie, especially “Tom Sawyer.” Funny enough, in Segal’s earlier work in Freaks and Geeks (1999), he played a high school burnout who idolized Neil Peart.
The movie pans out like a typical romantic comedy, though more between Peter and Sydney than Peter and his fiancee. It doesn’t even matter if its formulaic. You’ll be laughing too hard to notice. I will literally watch anything with Paul Rudd; he is so cringe-inducingly awkward in this movie, it’s delightful. He says the weirdest phrases on the planet, and I can’t wait til more people see this so I can get some kind of a listing of all of the random stuff he blurts out at the end of conversations.
Gracias to the New York Daily News
If you liked Knocked Up, Superbad, or Forgetting Sarah Marshall, you will love this. And like all of these movies, the glue that holds it all together is the stream of side characters who pop up sporadically for only a minute or so, but manage to be what people talk about once the movie is over.
I saw this today with my good friend, Lauren, who can out-shriek anyone when it comes to laughing. She has had many an old lady turn around and shush her. If you ever wonder what that warped, high-pitched shrieking is at the end of Main, it is Lauren. We both love previews, almost as much as the movie itself. Anyway, we noticed that Ryan Reynolds is in every movie coming out in 2009. Every trailer we saw had Ryan Reynolds in it. It was very strange.
This movie is Rated R.
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Yeah, I noticed that, too! (the Ryan Reynolds thing)
You would think that after he got married the whole “ball-and-chain” thing would come into effect.
Ah my boyfriend was raving about the preview for this when he saw Watchmen or something
Your review only cements my certainty that I must see this film! Worth seeing now, or should I save the $9 and rent it when it comes out?
Normally, I would say just rent it. But these movies are more fun when you get the reactions of all the people in the audience. Thanks for commenting!
Because of this review, I’m going to make sure to go watch the movie now =]
OMG I CAN COMMENT!! YES!
woo! i want to watch this movie =]
if it’s like Knocked Up, Superbad, or Forgetting Sarah Marshall (KRISTEN BELL!), there’s no way I would enjoy it 😦
i can’t stand that type of humor. =(
kind of annoying when most people love it.
This is by far the most amazing review I’ve ever read! That “Lauren” girl sounds like the bee’s knees. You muuuust introduce me!
BAHHAA LOVE YOU FEECH! 🙂