My Best Friend's Girl is Unsurprising and Unromantic

By Connect2Mason Reporter Emily Culley

What do you get when you cross a slightly repetitive catchy 1980s hit song by the Cars with Dane Cook? That's right, you get a slightly repetitive romantic comedy strife with vulgar one liners. Cook's newest film, My Best Friend's Girl is an adaption, of sorts, of the 1987 “My Best Friend's Girl.” If you haven't heard the song before, don't worry: it's played countless times throughout the movie.

Dane Cook plays Tank, a rebound artist who is paid by guys who have been recently dumped to make their ex-girlfriends go running back into their arms. Work is going great for Tank until best friend, Dustin (Jason Biggs) asks him to take out his girl, Alexis (Kate Hudson).

Instead of sending Alexis back into the arms of Dustin, Tank finds a new lifestyle in Alexis; feelings of romanticism he's never felt before. Torn between the two, Tank must decide who he is most loyal to. But it's not until everything goes up in smoke when Alexis takes him to a wedding and finds out his true job.

Cook's one liners are standard and up to par for his last movie, shouting repulsive things such as “She's gonna lose her shit like a shit-collector with amnesia,” when describing his work style to a new client. Or there's the conversation he had with a new mother in the bar; when she says “I just had a baby,” he quickly retorts “And I bet it was delicious.”

Biggs plays the nice guy, continually getting screwed over. Surprise? Not really. Hudson plays a women torn between lovers. Again, surprising? Doubtful. And the biggest surprise of all: Alec Baldwin plays a womanizing alcoholic. While the cast has had their past of reputable movies, it just doesn't fully add up in this comedy.

The plot is nearly as terrible as the cookie cutter roles played by the actors; the entire plot line can easily be lifted out of the trailer. It's not the worst romantic comedy to be released this year, but it is nowhere near the best. C-.