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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 2212
Released: January 13, 2009 |
| Our Price: $3.75 |
| Used Price: $1.99 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A MAN WHO MAKES HIS LIVING CONVINCING WOMEN TO RUN BACK INTO THE ARMS OF THE MEN THEY HAVE RECENTLY DUMPED IS HIRED BY HIS BEST FRIEND TO TAKE OUT THE BEAUTY HE LONGS TO WIN BACK.
Description of My Best Friend's Girl (Unrated ):
Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. But after only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down permanently. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialist. A master at seducing – and offending women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives, an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. But when Tank works his magic on Alexis, he ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Alexis is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and a strange new attraction to his best friend's girl.
My Best Friend's Girl (Unrated ) Reviews:
Good Ol' Raunchy Movie 
2009-11-02 - If you like Dane Cook, you will like this movie. It won't win any awards, the plot isn't all that great, but we really enjoyed the film.
This movie is very raunchy so it's probably best to watch with some drinking buddies, not with your family.
MILD SPOILERS WARNING
The only thing I didn't like was how it ended. I just don't buy that anyone would do all the stuff Dane's character did at the wedding. It doesn't spoil the movie, however.
Would never subject myself to it again 
2009-10-09 - But I actually did laugh out loud several times. Dane Cook was only a name to this over-50 viewer; I have not seen (and won't seek, I don't think) his other starring vehicles. Kate Hudson seemed fairly blah to me, though based on what I cannot say; this certainly did not alter that perception. And as maybe the only adult who has not endured any of the American Pie franchise, Jason Biggs was also new to me.....so, no preconceptions, no expectations.
Well, I think you can get an accurate perception from the many reviews here. If you enjoy people saying outlandish things, especially to old women and kids, using profane language, and generally behaving as offensive and selfish jerks (the opposite kind of heartless jerk as The Wedding Crashers--over the top sludge instead of over the top loveydovey) then this is your kind of movie. If you expect something other than endless fish-very-out-of-water foul language, then, with a couple of surprising glimmers of humor, you will be bored. Not offended.... while Hollywood likes to "push the envelope" by trying to offend, the result of bad boys saying bad words is just "bleeh". In fact, the supposedly Christian-offending pizza place was, by far, the most clever thing in the whole film, though, yet again, Hollywood's understanding of Christianity is as comprehensive and accurate as it would be if they wrote their scripts after glancing at an excerpt from a magazine article paraphrasing an anthropological text that mentions some remote and unvisited tribe called "Christians".
And since I have been married for a long time I sure don't know, but if this is how the single/dating world lives, I am most grateful to be far removed from it. What a universe of coarse brutality (Alec Baldwin, yeech!) and callow hollowness.
Really funny flick
2009-09-22 - Dane Cook takes strutting and cockiness to a new level in this one. This is a somewhat creepy movie with some really uncomfortable scenes. The part Alec Baldwin plays is totally out of character, and so funny he steals the show. A great cast and endless funny one-liners and blowout scenes make it worth watching.
Good Dane Cook humor 
2009-09-21 - Dane Cook is at his best in this movie yet I still liked Employee of the Month and Good Luck Chuck a little better and I'm not sure why. I think all three movies are great and worth buying.
Could have been good but FAILED 
2009-09-13 - I love funny sweet chick lit movies and I was hoping that this would be another gem. Unfortunately, I was to be disappointed with this movie. I feel asleep for about 20 minutes during this movie, but managed to stay awake to watch another movie after this one so that gives you a clue as to how good it was.
I love Jason Biggs, think Kate Hudson is good but I don't think I'm a huge fan of Dane Cook. None of the films I have seen him in seem to be very funny or good.
Wait to rent this at the $1 movie places.
