My Best Friend's Girl

So, Saturday I am at the house alone because Chad had to work all day. I clean the house and it’s only noon. So I decide I’ll go check out a flick. Much to my surprise and excitement My Best Friend’s Girl is still playing that he theatre by our house (I guess that’s what happens when the Cineplex has 24 screens). I’ve wanted to see this movie since it first opened, since I first heard about it, but time hadn’t made that a possibility until Saturday.

I knew I would like the movie. Heck, it has Dane Cook and I super love him. I don’t know why everyone else on the planet thinks he’s a d-bag, but I absolutely adore him. He’s super, super funny, very good looking and really talented. It turns out this movie is good—not Oscar good—but definitely a Saturday movie good. I ended up really, really liking it. I was actually surprised by how much I liked it. It was far better than Employee of the Month or Good Luck Chuck. Dane Cook aside, I thought it stood on its own merit.

Dane Cook plays Tank, a professional a$$hole. In addition to his job as a call-center customer service agent, Tank also gets paid to take girls out on such horrible dates they run back to their ex’s. All is well until his roommate/best friend/cousin Dustin, played by Jason Biggs, pays tank to take out his ex-girl Alexis, played by Kate Hudson. Tank gets more than he bargained for with Alexis, who sees through his act and turns his world upside down.

I thought the chemistry between Cook and Hudson was genuine and sincere. The development of their relationship went beyond what you typically find in rated R comedies. Yes, the movie was raunchy, but it still had heart, and I liked that. Alec Baldwin, who plays Tank’s dad Professor Turner, gave a memorable and probably the raunchiest performance in the movie.

Overall, I thought this was a great movie. I quoted it the rest of the night to Chad once he got home from work. It is definitely Dane Cook’s best movie (well, second if you count Dan in Real Life, he was a support character in that movie) and I am sure I will be buying this movie once it comes out on DVD.

Missy Cinema Score: B+