Movie Review: Just Friends
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Farris, Chris Klein, Chris Marquette, and Julie Hagerty
This movie should be made an example of for every person wanting to go into marketing as what NOT to do if you want to get people to go see your film. I can remember hearing and seeing the adds for this when it first came out and thinking, "Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit? Um...no thanks".
Oh, I was so, so deceived.
This movie takes holiday romantic comedies and tears them up, beats them to a hilarious pulp, and leaves us begging for more, more, more. And you don't even have to be into S & M to get what I mean. Just go and rent, Netflix, whatever you have to do to get this into your DVD player. It's the first comedy in a long time that I enjoyed so much that I didn't want it to be over. Luckily, there are delicious DVD extras to keep it going just a little longer. And I'm all about keepin' it goin' for as long as possible...
Remember when Ryan Reynolds used to be on that Nickelodean teen soap opera Fifteen? Well, I do. Which is why it took me so long to accept Ryan Reynolds as a serious comedic actor. And no, that isn't an oxymoron. He almost had me in Van Wilder. But now, now my friends, he has earned his HaHa Wings and then some. Couple him with Anna Farris in her most INSANE and you've got comic gold the likes of which 50 Cent would be proud to have all up in his grill. And Chris Klein? When the hell did he get so freakin' "I think I just peed myself a little" hilarious?
I also have to devote a paragraph to Chris Marquette, who plays younger brother Mike. This kid better do more stuff. He ruled every scene he came in contact with.
And now I'll tell those fuckers in movie marketing what they SHOULD have done: Ryan Reynolds can stay in the fat suit BUT have him lip-syncing to "I Swear" as he does in the closing credits of the film. If that doesn't have them lining up and down the block to get in the theaters, then we all deserve to die in a nuclear Holocaust.
5 out of 5