There is no reason for My Best Friend's Girl"" to exist. It is not cute, funny, entertaining or likable, and it is a terrible way to waste 100 minutes.
The basic plot is as follows: Tank (Dane Cook) is paid by guys to take their ex-girlfriends out on dates and be so horrible and offensive that the girl realizes her mistake and goes running back into the ex-boyfriend's arms. But when his best friend, Dustin, played by the boring Jason Biggs, hires him to take out his ex-girlfriend, Alexis (Kate Hudson), Tank begins to actually date her. Utter hilarity ensues.
The most baffling aspect of the movie is that there is not a single likable character. It is safe to assume the filmmakers intended the audience to care about Tank and root for him to get the girl, but the first half of the movie sets him up as such a heartless ""bad boy"" that it is absolutely impossible to have any feelings other than utter disgust for him. In fact, for the first hour of the movie, Tank is portrayed as the jerk for stealing Alexis from Dustin. But then, without any warning or set-up, their roles switch, and it appears the audience is suddenly supposed to hate Dustin for keeping Tank and Alexis apart. Why are you supposed to be cheering for the guy who stole his best friend's girl? This, of course, is never explained.
If anything should be taken from this movie, it's that Cook is not entertaining, charming, sympathetic or even likable to most audiences. It is hard to imagine two lead actors more annoying, unfunny, vapid, worthless and completely overrated as Hudson and Cook. They may have reasonable chemistry together on screen, but there is absolutely none between them and the audience.
As if echoing the screenwriter's work ethic, the person in charge of the soundtrack was equally lazy. This is how the brainstorming meeting probably went:
Director: ""So, how are things with the soundtrack going?""
Music Supervisor: ""Oh, crap. I forgot about that. Uh ... what if we just got
'My Best Friend's Girl' by the Cars?""
Director: ""Brilliant! What scene?""
Music Supervisor: ""Uh ... how about all of them?""
Director: ""INSPIRED!""
The only diamonds buried in this steaming pile are Lizzy Caplan (Janis Ian, ""Mean Girls""), who gets a surprising amount of mileage out of the phrase ""bang him,"" and Alec Baldwin, who never disappoints. In fact, the only entertaining scene in the entire movie comes when Baldwin details his Tuesday night.
Even though this movie effectively drags the audience into a dark place that makes them believe they will never laugh again, hearing Baldwin say the line, ""I fucked her within an inch of her life"" and then simulate the sounds of a female orgasm is just enough to stop the viewer from ripping their own eyes out.
Grade: F
