My Best Friend's Girl
** A Feast of Raunchy Humor **
TITLE: MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL
Quality: * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: V
Sex: SSS
Nudity: NN
RATING: R
RELEASE: September 19, 2008
TIME: 102 minutes
STARRING: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin, Diora Baird, and Lizzy Caplan
DIRECTOR: Howard Deutch
PRODUCERS: Guymon Casady, Dane Cook, Adam Herz, Doug Johnson, Barry Katz, Gregory Lessans, Josh Shader, and Brian Volk-Weiss
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mike Elliott and Michael Paseornek
WRITER: Jordan Cahan
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate Films
CONTENT: (PaPa, RoRo, AbAb, Ho, Fe, E, PC, B, C, LLL, V, SSS, NN, AA, DD, MM) Strong mixed pagan worldview with skewed elements of immoral Romanticism, blatant mockery of Christianity at a pizza parlor called Cheesus Crust (Jesus Christ), homosexual character and homosexual references, some feminist references in a women's studies course, a few light environmental references along with politically correct statements about planned parenthood and abortion, and one Christian character represents positive Biblical morality as she gives counsel to lead character about changing his way of life; 91 very strong obscenities, seven profanities and one crude gesture; violence some slapping, man falls while running and hits his knee, and some other light comedic violence including pratfalls, strong sexual content includes crude, graphic sexual dialogue about every form of debauchery and crude jokes, implied fornication in multiple scenes, depicted heavy petting in montage, couple visits strip club, women talk about and show sexual toys, father figure talks graphically about taking advantage of young college women, man owns and watches large selection of pornographic videos with much discussion about masturbation and another character admits to adulterous affair; nudity includes graphic upper female nudity at strip club as well as women in lingerie in multiple scenes, upper male nudity and rear male nudity; strong alcohol use in multiple scenes including man feigns drunkenness at wedding reception in order to "act" inappropriately, several characters smoke cigarettes, woman admits to taking a drug to make her sexually aroused and depicted marijuana use; and, lying, cheating, woman solicits man as prostitute.
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adults
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SUMMARY: In MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL, a young man falls for his cousin's ex-girlfriend, after his plan to drive the girl back to his cousin fails. MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL is an abhorrent raunch-fest, full of foul language and crude sexual content, that's not very good.
IN BRIEF:
MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL stars stand-up comedian Dane Cook and actress Kate Hudson. In this raunchy romantic comedy, Cook plays Tank. Tank's cousin Dustin hires Tank to work take Dustin's ex-girlfriend, Alexis (played by Hudson) on the worst date of her life, so that she'll come back to Dustin. Tank plans a masterpiece of sleaziness, but his plan backfires. Soon, Tank and Alexis, who are very attracted to each other, are carrying on a promiscuous tryst behind Dustin's back. Eventually, Dustin finds them together. As all their relationships are put to the test, Tank struggles with his own feelings for Alexis.
There is no deep plot to MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL, which is a very unromantic movie. The majority of the humor comes from a crude, pagan worldview that is void of any moral base whatsoever. The movie contains an over-abundance of foul language and graphic, sexual content, including obscene dialogue, plenty of implied promiscuity and sexually-based nudity. The content is gratuitous, excessive and abhorrent. A young Christian woman points Tank toward some moral decisions, but the change is short-lived. Media-wise viewers would be wise to avoid this obscene extravaganza.
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