I don't particularly enjoy comedies. Much less romantic comedies or "RomComs" as they are now called.
Very few comedies have provided me with genuine entertainment at the movies.
The first Ace Ventura, Animal House and The 40 Year Old Virgin are probably my favorite comedies, after the Naked Gun and Police Academy films of course.
I've never even seen Caddyshack though. :(
There are some really funny moments in How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, most having to do with Simon Pegg's great performance as an English Man in New York, sticking out in the poshy croud of celebrity magazine employees like a very sore thumb.
It is a clash of cultures and even though Pegg's caracter, Sydney Young, seems only a rude, selfish and clueless man at first, quickly becomes quite endearing as the viewer learns what the caracter is about. One soon finds out that Sydney is simply very honest and possibly unlucky, nothing more, with a very sweet and considerate side to his personality. He is also a teenager in a man's body...
The pacing of the film is tight and appropriate with a great soundtrack and although the ending itself takes its time to conclude and is, of course, as predictable as any romcom's, the picture is filled with many little twists that makes it a great piece of comedic entertainment.
Oh and Megan Fox has never been so damn hot!
:)
7.5/10
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