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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 6725
Released: February 17, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
SIDNEY YOUNG (PEGG), A SMALL-TIME ASPIRING BRITISH CELEBRITY JOURNALIST WHO IS HIRED BY AN UPSCALE MAGAZINE AFTER CATCHING THE ATTENTION OF CLAYTON HARDING (BRIDGES) DURING AN EVENT BY CREATING A RIDICULOUS SCENE WITH THE HELP OF A WILD PIG.
Description of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People:
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People may just be the first true British film--and a splendid one at that--to be set on American soil. The fearless actor Simon Pegg plays Sidney Young, a Fleet Street hatchet writer tapped to come to the States to join the literati, and glitterati, at a big, fat, glossy magazine--every resemblance of which to Vanity Fair is strictly intentional. Sidney is possibly the most annoying man in the Western world, tilting at nonexistent windmills. His character calls to mind many of the hapless charmers played by Hugh Grant--but Pegg, without Grant's raffish good looks, comes across as simply hapless. Which is perfect casting, since Sidney is supposed to be enormously aggravating, especially when he first lands in New York. In his first few days in the city, Sidney puts off the first magazine colleague he met (Kirsten Dunst, in a top-flight comic turn), wears a wildly inappropriate T-shirt on his first day of work, spritzes fast food onto the designer white suit of a relative of the publisher, and picks up a tranny hooker. And things go downhill from there. On his first magazine assignment, Sidney, checking captions for a photo page, calls a powerful publicist. "Is he the fat one?" Sidney asks the publicist about one of her clients. Silence. "Well, is he the one with the wonky eye, then?" Pegg is a scream as Sidney, playing quite a different role than his starring one in Shaun of the Dead. Dunst is delicate but steely, and her comedic timing, under the deft direction of Robert B. Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm), is spot on. Great supporting work, too, by editor Jeff Bridges, whose enthrallment to the power elite, and silver mane, channel Graydon Carter; by Gillian Anderson, as a take-no-prisoners publicist; and by Megan Fox, a starlet cast as a bosom-heaving Mother Teresa. Sidney, and the film, will win you over, with a lot of laughter along the way.--A.T. Hurley
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Reviews:
REALLY ENTERTAINING FILM WITH SIMON PEGG 
2009-10-03 - HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE
I am a huge Simon Pegg fan as most people probably are now days; come on all of his stuff has been great. I remember seeing the previews for this and thinking "all right here is his forte into mainstream movies". Now I knew that could go one of two ways, those of course being bad or good. Thankfully this while not his best film is really good and that is mainly because of Mr. Pegg himself. I know what you are saying "of course he is good in it" and I know that but I felt the need to say it, so get off my back.
The film follows an off the wall writer named Sidney Young [Pegg] as he goes from wanting to be in the "it" crowd to actually being there. The thing about it though is that what got him to the dance just might be the one thing he has to give up in order to be successful. Writing for a small magazine that trashes the stars [or at least he does] over in the UK, he is offered a job in the US by his hero in the biz Clayton Harding [Jeff Bridges]. Once there the hero he looked up to is looking more and more like a sell out and after meeting Sophie Maes [Megan Fox] he just might do the same. The only real person at least in his eyes is Alison Olsen [Kirsten Dunst], so he tends to hang around her while wanting Sophie.
This film based on a book by Toby Young is well handled under the direction of Robert Weide. The film is well paced even though it is a bit long which may be it's only down fall, the only one I guess. Written for the screen by Peter Straughan and acted out well by the entire cast this film is really entertaining. The film has laugh out loud moments but it is much more of a wittier humor or subtle type if that makes sense. Still I find the film to be very entertaining and found the cast to be real fun to watch.
Simon Pegg is excellent as the lead in this film and it was cool to see him in this type of role, in fact he should do more of these. Kirsten Dunst is great as well in this film and gives one of the better performances. Jeff Bridges is great as usual and Megan Fox does a good job as well as does the rest of the cast. Like I said this is not the best film ever and is not even Pegg's best film, but it is still a very entertaining flick. I recommend this film to any one reading this if only a rental that is fine, I bought it.
Its ok
2009-08-07 - Sydney White, a British journalist, who is extremely clumsy and a hell of an idiot, tried all his life to enter the celebrity world because he thought it is great and will make him very happy. He gets hired by a big firm in NYC called Sharp, which he can't help but continue acting like a total idiot around its staff and the celebrities. He then meets Megan Fox and feels very attracted to her. At the same time he is always annoying his colleague, whom in the end falls in love with her.
A chick flick movie, with some stupid funny jokes
How to lose fans and alienate buyers with this Region 1 release...
2009-07-13 - "Simon Pegg has urged fans not to buy the US DVD release of his film How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.
Pegg and the comedy's director Robert Weide have both blasted US distributor MGM/Fox for omitting deleted scenes from the disc's extra features.
"I was very disappointed when I heard about the lack of extra features on the US DVD, particularly when Bob and I went to great lengths to ensure they were available," Pegg said."
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With that said, the film itself is pretty funny and has good performances from Simon Pegg and Danny Huston, though somehow Kirsten Dunst didn't work for me. As for Megan Fox, it's tough to tell how much of her performance was acting...
so funny! 
2009-06-26 - this moive was filled with humorus quips that made me and my college friends almost pee our pants. story line was great and i just cant stop watching it
i laughed till the tears rolled!!!
2009-05-16 - there are not many movies i would want to watch again but this one is truly an exception! my wife and i always like to check out the movie trailers on every dvd we get and have found many this way that we really liked and would not have otherwise found out about. when we saw the trailer for this one, it looked like it might be humorous but it exceeded both our expectations by far. i don't remember the last time i laughed so hard and so much, as did my wife! i would give this flick 5 stars all day long!!! ya know, not everyone has the same sense of humor, but as for me and mine, i highly recommend it!
