Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel
Director: John Hamburg (Along Came Polly)
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Budget: N/A
Critics’ Thumbs Up: 76 %
“…fresh, fun and original.” Jason Buchanan, TV Guide
“..the film as a whole underwhelms.” James Berardinelli, ReelViews
In this raunchy somewhat sweet comedy, newly engaged nice guy Peter (Rudd) has no guy friends and needs a best man ASAP. The film’s saddled with stereotypes, however, as he goes on a series of man-dates with either gay guys or macho men until he strikes up a bromance with self-assured, wild Sydney (Segel). While exploring a male friendship’s good fodder, the script’s not elevated beyond frat boy humor and hyperboles (Sydney’s a “man” because he inhabits a man-cave but discovers his sensitivity watching Chocolat.) A supporting cast of Jane Curtain, J.K. Simmons and Andy Samberg are criminally underused, but Rudd and Segel carry the movie with their awkward, warped comedic charms.
Now showing at: Silver Cinemas Budget South
I Love You Man
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason SegelDirector: John Hamburg (Along Came Polly)Running Time: 1 hr 45 minRelease Date: March 20, 2009Budget: N/ACritics’ Thumbs Up: 76 %“…fresh, fun and original.” Jason Buchanan, TV Guide“..the film as a whole underwhelms.” James Berardinelli, ReelViewsIn this raunchy somewhat sweet comedy, newly engaged nice guy Peter (Rudd) has no guy friends and needs a best man ASAP. The film’s saddled with stereotypes, however, as he goes on a series of man-dates with either gay guys or macho men until he strikes up a bromance with self-assured, wild Sydney (Segel). While exploring a male friendship’s good fodder, the…
