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A test screening review of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel's I LOVE YOU, MAN! comes in!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an early review of a flick not slated to hit theaters until January of next year called I LOVE YOU, MAN starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, both very, very funny men. Based on the cast (and cameo) list alone, I'll be seeing this. I'm a sucker for crazy comedian cameo-laden movies... Here's an unnamed source with his/her/its thoughts on the flick!

PAUL RUDD in "I LOVE YOU, MAN"

The film is written and directed by John Hamburg, who directed the Ben Stiller comedy "Along Came Polly," which holds a 26 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Seeing that "I Love You Man" is a film starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, I figured Judd Apatow had something to do with the flick, but he didn't. Ivan Reitman helped produce, so maybe that's how it got made, who knows.

First and foremost, Paul Rudd is fucking great. Just great. He has a million of these nervous ad-libbed nonsensical words he says throughout the film that are hilarious. Viewers will be quoting two things when leaving the film: "Jobin" and "Slappin' da bass."

The story is about a guy (Rudd) with no guy friends who sets out to find a best friend to be his best man at his wedding to the smoking hot Rashida Jones (from The Office). He meets Segel and the two become best friends. I like the tentative title "Bromance" better than "I Love you Man," but I'm not the studio. Anyway, the movie is full of great cameos like J.K. Simmons (the pompous newspaper editor from Spiderman) as Rudd's dad, and Andy Samberg as Rudd's gay advice-toting personal trainer brother. Dangle from Reno 911 also plays a funny gay guy who hangs out with Rudd thinking they are on a date, and that little weird guy from Superbad (the guy who hits Jonah Hill with his car then takes he and Michael Cera to that party) is a funny little excited character whose voice cracks every three seconds. Jaime Pressly is Rashida Jones' best friend and Jon Favreau plays Pressly's husband, and they are funny as shit, especially Favreau with his dry sense of comedy.

There are a few formulaic parts such as the ending, but there's enough funny stuff in there to make it overall recommendable.

Segel spouts nuggets of wisdom and drifts through life just like the Dude in Big Lebowski, but I'm not sure why they made him dress just like the Dude, that made him look like a younger rip-off. And Lou Ferrigno (who plays himself) is featured prominently because Rudd is trying to sell Ferrigno's house. The only thing that irked me is that in one scene, Ferrigno is chatting on a cell phone. He's fucking deaf. What dumbass writer in Hollywood makes that mistake? John Hamburg, I guess. It would be different if Ferrigno was playing someone else, but he's playing Lou Ferrigno, a famous 85% deaf lip-reader, and they have him on a cell phone as if people will forget that the man cannot hear.

Segel gets a C+ cause his comedic timing was good but he's not that memorable, Rudd gets an A cause now I want to watch more films of him as the main part, Favreau gets a B+ cause he made me laugh out loud, all the minor cameos get a B cause they all made me laugh with their limited screen time. The director John hamburg gets a C because the style was very vanilla and any director worth his salt could have made a funny film with all those great people. Give me your style, make it unique, put your stamp on the film, then I'll respect you as a director. None of these were done. Overall, it's a film worth seeing. High marks for unexpected laugh: the projectile vomit scene.

There's my review. In case you were wondering.


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FIRST!!!!!!!
by wackybantha
Oct 4th, 2008
12:52:00 AM
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL!!!!!!
by wackybantha
Oct 4th, 2008
12:53:14 AM
Bromance!
by mr.brownstone
Oct 4th, 2008
01:04:30 AM
By the way...
by mr.brownstone
Oct 4th, 2008
01:05:38 AM
Rudd's best FSM line
by Reno
Oct 4th, 2008
01:09:21 AM
that little weird guy from Superbad?
by BadMrWonka
Oct 4th, 2008
01:45:39 AM
hhhhhmmmmmm...
by billyhitchcock
Oct 4th, 2008
02:01:35 AM
although it will rule...
by billyhitchcock
Oct 4th, 2008
02:03:02 AM
...and this review...
by rost
Oct 4th, 2008
03:28:27 AM
Bromance is a much better title
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
Oct 4th, 2008
04:56:24 AM
Joe Lo Truglio
by kennerado
Oct 4th, 2008
05:11:31 AM
I love-a tha "State".
by Anna Valerious
Oct 4th, 2008
05:17:06 AM
i always thought rudd was underrated
by pcassou
Oct 4th, 2008
10:00:13 AM
Along Came Polly is just a fugly, less-funny...
by pokadoo
Oct 4th, 2008
10:33:29 AM
Actually, I just remembered this dream...
by pokadoo
Oct 4th, 2008
10:41:47 AM
Ferrigno
by Lou C.
Oct 4th, 2008
10:52:34 AM
Just watched Sarah Marshall on BlueRay last night, again
by Stormwatcher
Oct 4th, 2008
11:11:33 AM
Paul Dudd
by KurtLockwood
Oct 4th, 2008
11:50:56 AM
Rashida Jones is smoking hot!
by BackRiverCatfish
Oct 4th, 2008
12:06:50 PM
Rudd and Franco need to team up next.
by Elemeno Pee
Oct 4th, 2008
01:42:18 PM
Lou Ferrigno
by Calvin_Crack
Oct 4th, 2008
02:48:36 PM
I don't have any friends
by wintocha67
Oct 4th, 2008
04:18:34 PM
I may have missed it-- did anyone on AICN review Role Models?
by Sherman_Lives
Oct 4th, 2008
05:26:24 PM
....
by Harold-Sherbort
Oct 4th, 2008
05:36:00 PM
So. Malkovich wasn't in that "jewel heist movie"
by maxxsterling
Oct 4th, 2008
06:10:44 PM
Rush has a big cameo
by stinkyfingerz
Oct 4th, 2008
06:21:48 PM
People with Hearing Aids can use Cell Phones Too.
by Atomica
Oct 4th, 2008
10:01:04 PM
Yeah!
by Rollo Tomasi
Oct 5th, 2008
07:37:45 AM
Gabe Ruth
by RexGattling
Oct 5th, 2008
07:28:50 PM
Jo Lo Trulio
by DeadPanWalking
Oct 5th, 2008
09:58:33 PM
Ferrigno isn't deaf
by DwightSchrute
Oct 6th, 2008
02:32:18 PM

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