Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) by Stefano F — 08 May 2011

Surprisingly funny and entertaining! Had a good laugh! Very unexpected.

This review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) was written by Stefano F on 08 May 2011.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Mike N (816) on 18 May 2014

Nothing out of this world amazing..but it was funny and enjoyable…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Everett J (371) on 22 Jan 2013

A decidedly charming movie. Simon Pegg is miscast because he is just too likable to play Toby Young. And it shows…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Soraya H (16) on 04 Apr 2013

I liked this movie-especially the lesson Simon Pegg's character learns about the nature of fame, and how it really isn't worth your integrity…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Ben G (949) on 27 Sep 2013

Cute piece about the world of writing celebrity articles for a high class New York Magazine. Simon Pegg is good…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Russell G (1,053) on 06 Mar 2014

I am not sure why such a worthwhile movie lost so much money and finds itself swept under the rug…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Hugo G (498) on 04 Jun 2014

Good movie. Funny, smart, good performance from Pegg. Not as satirical as it could/should be, but still funny…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Gimly M (816) on 10 Mar 2018

I think Simon Pegg is probably better served as a comedic actor in his native British movies, he's proven himself in that field time and time…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Bill White (195) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 13 Jan 2014

The result is an initially hilarious picture that grows perplexingly trite as screenwriter Peter Straughan transforms Young's sly observations…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By James W (1,855) on 02 Oct 2013

I seem to be in the minority here, but I really enjoy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, although I'll be the first to admit that it pales…

Read Review

Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Mar 2015

Not as smart or as satirical as you might hope, but an enjoyable and often funny look at a mad, mad, mad, mad world…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Stepmom (1998)

By Charlene & (196) on 03 May 2012

Cult underground classic right here......(Laughs)…

Read Review

Review of Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)

By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 01 Jan 2000

I'm sorry to say that most of the children in the audience ate this crap up, which is just another disturbing sign that America's youth is in trouble…

Read Review

Review of Newsies (1992)

By Julian T (578) on 29 Dec 2011

Seriously bad. I have to admit I'm pretty biased against musicals, but this has to be at the bottom of even that barrel…

Read Review

Review of Alfie (2004)

By Tony Medley (1,109) for tonymedley.com (461) on 04 Nov 2004

Law is unconvincing as a roué, the script is juvenile and the directing is bereft of inspiration…

Read Review

Review of Gotti (1996)

By Mithun L (17) on 15 Jun 2011

There's so much story here and yet this is almost free of story, what the hell…

Read Review

Review of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Jun 2013

So what was rich, journalistic and precisely observed is now overstated, under-textured and cartooned, in playwright/screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s…

Read Review

Review of The Corruptor (1999)

By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 01 Jan 2000

It boggles the mind why New Line actually had the nerve to waste millions of dollars on a piece of wretched trash like this…

Read Review

Review of Tootsie (1982)

By Broyax (884) on 23 Mar 2020

Encore une daube assommante du père Pollack qui n'a pas son pareil pour nous assommer avec ses merdes…

Read Review

Review of Conspiracy Theory (1997)

By Broyax (884) on 02 May 2020

Il y avait de l'idée dans ce personnage complètement parano, exemple parfait de la théorie du complot ou plutôt des (innombrables) théories…

Read Review

Review of Coming to America (1988)

By Jch29 (1) on 05 Mar 2021

Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008

53%562 Reviews

Gone with the Wind

1939

86%825 Reviews

Red Eye

2005

70%658 Reviews

RED

2010

67%865 Reviews

Darkness Falls

2003

46%544 Reviews

The Chumscrubber

2005

63%491 Reviews

Sharknado 2: The Second One

2014

38%212 Reviews

Masculin Féminin

1966

77%188 Reviews

Cold War

2018

79%78 Reviews

Parenthood

1989

75%603 Reviews