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My Best Friend's Girl [DVD] [2008]
enlarge	Director: Howard Deutch Actors: Alec Baldwin, Dane Cook, Lizzy Caplan, Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£17.99~~ Buy New: £2.99 as of 20/11/2009 21:43 GMT details You Save: £15.00 (83%) New (23) Used (6) from £2.40 Seller: next_day_entertainment Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 5397 Format: PAL Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 112 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060052416926 ASIN: B001NDTA0E Release Date: March 30, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Dane Cook is fab April 20, 2009 A. Graham (England) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful I love Dane Cook in this film. Not only is he funny, but he conveys emotional depth too. Alec Baldwin is a hoot as his dad (listen for his way of scoring women (A-Z, not 1-10) - hilariously unPC). Very enteraining, with some funny gross out stuff too. Laughed till I cried. September 25, 2009 N. J. Mcclimon (The Hague, Holland) This is one of the best comedy films for years. It is rough, vulgar, cringingly raw and fast. The script is so funny. Some many great lines it is unbelieveable. Great film, you got to watch it, for once a comedy that makes you wet yourself laughing. With friends like these, who needs enemies... January 13, 2009 Guitar Heroine (Liverpool, England.) 2 out of 4 found this review helpful It was great to see Jason Biggs in a more mature role than I'd seen him in (American Pie being the only films I'd seen him in). Alec Baldwin is also great in a mysogynistic, male chauvinist pig role. It was also interesting to see different sides to a character (as played by Kate Hudson), and to see the roles reversed; her character plays someone who uses a man for nothing more than sexual gratification (to start with at least), as its usually men who do this and who are cast in such roles. When the man she is using as her plaything, who has been actually given the task of upsetting, disgusting and hurting her to the point where she runs screaming into the arms of her jilted fiance, eventually starts falling for her, as she does for him, a lot of truths come into the open. br / br /There are a fair few comedic moments, interjecting the serious parts, and it's a very good film which I overlooked at the time of its initial release. It would appeal equally to a male and female audience and is clever without being too heavy. br / br /The ending shows what a fine line there is between love and hate and is a very good twist because the moments leading up to the conclusion do not lead you to think that what happens is going to happen. Crude, Lewd, Rude... November 16, 2009 underthethumb (UK) ... and Funny. For once the headline on the front of the DVD actually reflects the reality of watching the film. This is a real departure for director Howard Deutch who has previously directed films such as Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful. br / br /It relies on very rude and obnoxious behaviour on the part of Dane Cook to get it's laughs and completely under uses Jason Biggs who is left as a pathetic bit player in the wings for most of the film. Kate Hudson puts in another good performance and Alec Baldwin looks to have a lot of fun playing Dane Cooks role model father. br / br /Very much in the vein of a Kevin Smith DVD (one of the Evening's With rather than his films) rather than American Pie. It works for the most part but definitely not for the easily offended. unfunny negativity January 15, 2009 jrhartley 4 out of 8 found this review helpful I was very disappointed by this film. It just trades on sarcasm, negativity, and largely witless lines. The only point when I did laugh out loud was the the 'you're a two bagger - meaning I have to wear a bag as well in case your bag breaks' line. That was funny. For a lot of the rest of the film I felt the writers had spent too much time scouring the urban dictionary or Roger's Profanosaurus to try to shoe-horn in obscenities and put-down lines of abuse without any real feeling that the dialogue properly integrated with the scene of the character. br / br /The post-production is very much 'in yer face', aggressive cuts, sped-up clips, noisy numbered countdowns; the opening sequence is quite an unpleasant introduction to the film and its characters and frankly, after that, it never really succeeds in regaining the lost ground and getting the audience to rebuild any affinity with them. br / br /Inevitably, it tries to come around to a sort of rom-com ending, but an attempt at 'alternative rom com'. The overall feeling you're left with is just not much, a hollow film, hollow characterisation, negative vibes, just wanting to get through it. If you're looking for something in a vaguely similar vein, but actually amusing and not leaving you feeling permeated by 'nastiness' - I would suggest SuperBad.

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