Upon breaking up with his girlfriend Alexis, a young beautiful girl, who tells him that she prefers to be friends, Dustin, a young handsome guy, who is frustrated and wants to return to her, makes a plan, as he asks his roommate Tank for help, by making him taking Alexis in a horrible date, in order to return to him, but everything changes, when Tank falls in love with Alexis, the thing that challenges him.
In order for My Best Friend's Girl to work at all, it needs a leading man with the charisma to suggest the soulful, lovelorn gentleman behind the crude serial womanizer.
ViewLondon
November 21, 2008
Tedious, largely unfunny and poorly written comedy with the least likeable collection of characters you'll see all year.
Cahan's curious and increasingly sincere slant on modern romance outshines its efforts to please Cook's MySpace fan base with gross-out gags (some of which are damned funny).
This is one of those films that would be enormously improved by the arrival of 100 crazy Somali pirates who would proceed to take the entire cast hostage.
There are no surprises here, but speedy pacing and a smattering of laughs along the way, as well as a knowing turn by Alec Baldwin as Tank's even more piggish father, make My Best Friend's Girl a date not entirely to be skipped.
Hollywood.com
November 20, 2008
Yet another in a continuing line of dismal Dane Cook so-called romantic comedies.
There's something genuinely transgressive beneath the movie's rom-com surface, though director Howard Deutch keeps retreating to the safety of frat-boy humor.