My Best Friend's Girl 2008

Critics score:
14 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: 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). Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny. Read more

Reece Pendleton, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: 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. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The inexplicable romantic comedy career of Dane Cook marches on. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The actors (especially Alec Baldwin, as Tank's horndog dad) elevate the material slightly, but such piffle will just fill you with longing... for a better movie. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: An ugly, strictly-for-meatheads comedy that can only be recommended to couples who wear matching Tie Domi Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys out on a date. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: The movie spends a lot of time trying to be cute, vulgar and cutely vulgar. But it forgets about character, plot and believability. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Isolated bits don't add up to much here. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: My Best Friend's Girl isn't just a misfire; it's a misfire compounded by a chain of miscalculations, and it's hard to figure out who this could appeal to (except, perhaps, Dane Cook's fan club). Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: It borrows from much funnier movies such as Hitch, Wedding Crashers and My Best Friend's Wedding. Never has a romantic comedy seemed less romantic or less comedic. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Cook is most amusing while emphasizing his sardonic edginess, a trait that may eventually serve him well in some anti-heroic (or downright villainous) dramatic role. Better still, he establishes an effectively fluid give-and-take with Hudson. Read more