Sunday, February 8, 2009

My Best Friend's Girl (2008)

There are two reasons, and two reasons alone, why I decided to give this movie a go: Alec Baldwin. My reasoning did not disappoint, but the movie surprised me a bit by how funny it could be.

The plot is so overdone it ridiculous, but the humor is there throughout most of it. Basic plot: Dane Cook plays a guy who other guys hire to take their exes out for the worst date of their lives, causing them to go back into the arms of the original guy. Jason Biggs hires Cook to get Kate Hudson back. Alec Baldwin is Cook's daddio. Simple, stupid, unimaginative. But this movie is funny. It tries a little to hard to be offensive when it's really not, but it is funny.

I used to be a fan of Cook's stand up when he first came on the scene, now it's kinda old. But these are the types of roles that could make him funny, where they just let him riff off-book. The humor mainly came from Baldwin, and can you really blame him?

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