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Dir: John Hamburg.
Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Jaime Pressly, Jon Favreau, JK Simmons
Description: Los Angeles estate agent Peter Klaven is head over heels in love with his long-term girlfriend, Zooey. He proposes and she excitedly accepts, telling all of her gal pals the good news before they begin to plan the nuptials in minute detail. For his part, Peter realises that he lacks a circle of male friends to call upon as best man so he nervously embarks on a series of 'man dates' to find new drinking buddies with encouragement and guidance from his gay brother, Robbie. Woman-chasing slacker Sydney Fife, who earns his cash through investments, gets under Peter's skin and the pair become best mates, discovering an affinity for the rock group Rush. As the friendship blossoms, Zooey begins to feel a little neglected and Peter is forced to re-evaluate his priorities.
Country: US. 2009. 104mins
Shoulder to shoulder: Jason Segel and Paul Rudd get The Look from Rudd’s fiancée Rashida Jones
Love triangle: Paul Rudd and Rashida Jones
John Hamburg’s “bromantic” comedy is about male bonding and, though there are a couple of gays involved on its periphery, it’s strictly for heterosexual consumption.
Harmless Peter (Paul Rudd) is an LA real estate agent with an unfortunate habit of uttering the wrong catch-phrases to his clients. When the girl he is about to marry (Rashida Jones) dispatches him to find himself a best man, he runs into problems — for he has no male friends.
So he embarks on a series of “man-dates”, which prove disastrous until he meets Jason Segel’s Sydney. A cruising bachelor who likes to point out the women he’s “had”, Sydney becomes Peter’s best friend, which begins to annoy his fiancée. Having pushed her would-be husband towards his course of action, she finds the result discomfortingly unpalatable.
Produced and written as well as directed by Hamburg, I Love You, Man is fairly predictable, and offers a typically louche LA version of such events. At no point does it suggest that Peter is anything other than an innocent but not particularly charming fool; nor do we take Sydney for anything more than an obnoxious eccentric.
His chief delight is to leave his dog’s poo to be stepped in by others on the beachfront pavements.
Admittedly, there are a few better jokes than this, but the attempt to explore men’s problems with something akin to intimacy founders on the sad fact that neither character is the least bit intriguing.
Nor is anyone else in the film — though Jones’s volte-face from doting lover to conspiring wife-to-be is well enough done to suggest that Peter might be better off with Sydney than with her. JK Simmons and Jon Fevreau leaven the supporting cast with good cameos — but even they appear dire as people.
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