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My Best Friend's Girl

Movie Grade: D

DVD Features Grade: C-

Overall Grade: D+

I remember seeing Dane Cook's stand up in 2001 on Comedy Central. At that point, I don't think anyone really knew who he was but he really made me laugh. I loved his Harmful if Swallowed CD, along with his follow up, Retaliation. I can't point out exactly when it happened but he just got way too popular. I remember being in high school and wanting to strangle those people that would just shuffle out quote, after quote of what was once some great comedy. It wasn't only this that made me hate Dane Cook, but everything he's done after those two albums just didn't feel the same. On top of being incredibly over-rated, Dane Cook is terrible at choosing scripts. Aside from Waiting, I've yet to see him in a promising film.

Dane plays Tank Turner, a guy who has made a business out of taking newly single women on terrible dates to have them run back to their boyfriends. Tank makes some money and their boyfriends get to seem like gods in comparison. Things get complicated when Dane's closest friend, and room-mate Dustin (Jason Biggs) hires Tank to take out his new ex, Alexis (Kate Hudson). It seems that Alexis is done with nice guys for a while and no matter what Tank does she still wants him. Well after that Tank decides he really wants to be with Alexis. Then there is some predictable drama and Alec Baldwin shows up as Tank's womanizing father, Professor Turner.

I can't explain how much apathy I felt towards every single character in this movie. Tank is obviously a jerk form the beginning, Dustin tries to deceive the girl he claims to love, and Alexis actually thinks its ok to lower her standards and have sex with creeps (like Tank), all to be with a nice guy like Dustin. I even watched this with my girlfriend so that I would have a female perspective on all of this and she thought it was worse than I did. The movie actually brought me down until I watched Frost/Nixon and I once again had the will to live.

Anyone who has read my Saw V DVD review knows that juts because a movie doesn't deliver doesn't mean the same for its special features. Unfortunately in this case it, in fact, does not deliver. Making It In Beantown: Where It All Began, is a look into the on location setting of the movie in Boston. It could have been mildly interesting if it didn't focus mainly on Dane Cook being from Boston and his incredible fan base there. Just as a side note, it may seem like Dane Cook is funny in this feature, but don't let that fool you. It just seems that

way because Jason Biggs is about as funny as a dead-baby joke and actually manages to seem less intellectual.

The Cast's Guide to Dating is actually as bad as it sounds. They dish out some really bad dating advice that sounds like something you'd hear in junior high, revolving around sexism and double standards. Just when I thought that was bad, I got to The Prom: A Teenage Rite of Passage. I really can't believe how many double standards they continue to dish out in this. That is all besides the fact that the cast doesn't seem to have ever been to a prom because their description is nothing like the real thing. Honestly, I'm getting tired of the bashing, so I'll just say that A to Z: Turner's Sexiest Rating System is just as bad as the last two features for exactly the same reason. As far as deleted and alternative scenes go, it runs the same as the movie. The deleted scenes don't add anything and the alternative scenes don't change anything.

I usually like to make these reviews much more detailed, but like I said earlier, I'm tired of all the bashing. It was a bad movie, plain and simple. Some people might enjoy the lowbrow humor and the shallow characters but I just couldn't work any positives this. It is by no means the worst movie ever. After all, my last review was Bangkok Dangers; this is Citizen Kane in comparison.

Movie Grade: D

DVD Features Grade: C-

Overall Grade: D+