Today’s post begins with a fractal called Crazylove. It seemed a suitable image for a film about a “bro”mance. So, if you want to learn what a bromance is and read my review of I Love You Man, you need do nothing further than scan down the page.-
It turns out there’s a new term in popular culture for the close (though sexless) emotional bonds between two males. That word is bromance. I had one (without knowing it) for a long time with my best friend Sprocket for a long time before such things became fashionable but that’s a post for another time. Now is the time for my latest movie review.
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Adult sex comedies have been back since The 40 Year Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers did so well at the Box Office. I Love You Man goes back to the “tried and true” formula of raunchy jokes and foul language and humor which is as often gross and painful to watch as it is side-splittingly funny. Here Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven a young Real Estate Agent who is about to marry Zooey the girl of his dreams (Rashida Jones) after knowing her for eight months. He relates well to women (so well that he might as well be gay) but doesn’t have any male friends. Zooey is going to have SIX Bridesmaids so Paul is frantic to find groomsmen.
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Desperate, Peter lets anyone hook him up with (expectedly) disastrous results. Barry (John Favreau) is the supremely uncaring husband of Zooey’s best friend Denise (Jamie Presley) seems to get the worst of it by a spectacularly depicted “vomit comet.” Peter’s gay brother Robbie (Andy Samberg) sets him up with an otherwise nice guy (Joe Lo Truglio) with a voice that is the aural equivelant of nails on a chalk board. Even Peter Mother (Jane Curtain) sets him up with fresh from Chicago Doug (Thomas Lemon risking being type cast with yet another gay character) who gets the wrong idea. Fellow Realtor Tavin Downey (Rob Heubel) wants to be Peter’s friend (or does he want to split the commission for selling Lou Ferigno’s Hollywood Hills home. (Ferigno plays himself in a couple of funny scenes.) Eventually he meets penultimate “guy’s guy” Sydney Fife (Jason Segel--who thankfully keeps his clothes on in this movie) and a bromance made in heaven is born. Of course the road to true “bromance” is a rocky one but everybody (except the cheese ball Realtor) ends up happy in the end.
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There aren’t as many belly laughs and I would have liked from a movie like this and there were way too many “vomit” and “dog poop” jokes although the Puggle Anwar Sadat (playing himself) is too cute for words. There’s no nudity (surprising) but the language could make a sailor blush. I enjoyed the movie but Robyn (and I suspect most of the women in the audience) didn’t like it as much as we guys did. It’s a fun movie but nothing that can’t wait to be seen on DVD.
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FINAL GRADE: B-
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