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My Best Friend’s Girl is bad on every level | Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

It needs to be said up front: My Best Friend's Girl (rated R for strong language and sexual content) has no redeeming qualities. In an attempt to combine the romance of a chick flick with the humor of a Judd Apatow comedy, it manages neither. It is unbelievably profane, misogynistic, mundane and, most unforgivably, humorless.

The conceit of the movie is that Tank Turner (Dane Cook) is so good at being a jerk that men who have lost their girlfriends by being jerks themselves pay him to treat the women even worse, thereby driving them back to their loser boyfriends. It's the feel-bad hit of the season.

And that's before Tank's best friend and roommate Dustin (Jason Biggs) arranges for Tank to work his magic on Alexis (former Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson whose slumming here is fairly convincing proof she's taken leave of her senses), the woman he'd been casually seeing before she demoted him to friend.