Review of I Love You, Man (2009) by Dawdlingpoet — 25 Nov 2021

This is a rather silly movie but it is quite funny in points. Its rather saucy at points, not really in terms of graphic scenes visually but in terms of Sydney talking about Peter's sex life and saying inappropriate things, so be aware of that. It did make me cringe at points, though it is also quite amusing as I say!. Paul Rudd does his usual performance playing a rather straight laced character who ends up showing his perhaps wilder side as a fan of rock band Rush and getting inadvertently put in a few tricky situations. Sydney ends up giving a toast and it doesn't go down too well etc., its hardly new territory as far as storylines go, really, indeed it reminded me of another comedy I quite like (and prefer really), 'You, Me and Dupree' - with Sydney being the Dupree character in this movie, of course. Probably most couples or families have or know of someone like this, a friend or relative of someone who could do with better manners and that you wouldn't want to invite to certain events.

A more random sub-plot of the movie is with Peter's job as a real estate agent, where he has to sell Lou Ferrigno's (the actor who played The Hulk) house, which he really struggles to do and Lou is less than impressed with him, which leads to an embarrassing encounter when Sydney decides to stand up for Peter after spotting Lou when out and about and there's a nice twist to the story in that respect towards the end of the movie.

It is rather predictable story wise, its nothing new like I say but I did think that it provided enough laughs and I felt like the character of Peter was quite well developed that I did have an interest in seeing how things would turn out as far as him and Zooey were concerned, so it is a good movie but I wouldn't say I love it (man), hence the review title. Its rather silly but its entertaining enough, I didn't feel overly bored or disinterested in it while it was on and I think guys would quite enjoy this movie, some women too if you like these kind of movies, like I tend to lol. I'm not sure that there's much else that can be said about it... I could relate to Peter at the start of the movie though, trying to expand his social circle which isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do and watching the scene with his fiancee and her 'girl friends' sitting and gossipping about him and his lack of a social life, was again quite what I'd term 'cringeworthy' (I keep seeming to use that word, if such a word exists? it does now lol). Its funny to see Peter, after that happens, meeting up with a few people in his search to find a new friend and seeing what those people are like and the embarrassing situations they cause before he finds Sydney, which happens by accident pretty much, compared to the earlier 'guy hookups' I guess you could call them(?) which were set up by a friend of Peters at a local gym.

Its amusing and entertaining enough to be worth watching, though its hardly a brilliant movie. Its not too memorable but it is quite good light entertainment and I did feel I connected to the main character and was interested to see what happened, so it worked well in that respect, though don't expect too much from it really. Its good but by no means great aka I like it but I don't love it (man) lol.