Weekly DVD Drop: My Best Friend’s Girl (We’ll Explain)

By Chuck

Best of the Week: My Best Friend’s Girl

Yes, really. Our pick of the week is a movie that stars Dane ‘The Worst Comedian of All Time‘ Cook and Kate ‘No Boobs’ Hudson. Why? Well, it’s an extremely sh*tty week for DVD releases. This isn’t an awesome movie by any stretch of the imagination. It does, however, have its moments.

The script is surprisingly well written, which results in Dane actually being funny a hand full of times, and Kate coming across as slightly above tolerable.

Dane plays an asshole for hire who nice guys pay to take out their ex-girlfriends and be a dick to them so the girls will realize how special the guys were and take them back. He meets his match in Kate, who just happens to be on a ‘get laid by a random asshole’ mission when Dane is hired by his best friend (Jason Biggs) to be an asshole to her.

So then, whatever. Dane and Kate start getting it on, stuff happens, you find out Kate kind of has a great ass, Alec Baldwin shows up, and there’s some nudity every now and then to keep things moving.

Worst of the Week: Appaloosa

Ed Harris directs the second film of his career at the age of 58, and it’s a western, and it’s horrible. What else? Well, it’s also meandering, boring, pointless, lame, awful and unoriginal. Harris and co-star Viggo Mortensen are men of the law who come to clean up some western town with a dumb name which has been overrun by bandits. Sound like the plot of every western ever made, including Blazing Saddles? That’s because… it is!

But you know what makes every one of those westerns a million times better than this piece of crap? None of them feature Renée Zellweger. Renée, who is the most annoying leading lady in Hollywood to begin with, and literally is the ugly stick with which other women are sometimes beaten, shows up looking like her entire face was injected with ten pounds of collagen and then attacked by a swarm of bees and mosquitoes for a week. She doesn’t ruin the movie, because it already sucks anyways, but if it were a good movie it would have been ruined by her.

Leftovers:

“Little Britain USA“
Technically this is our pick of the week, but it’s British – so it’s disqualified! A six part HBO comedy series, it’s basically just two British ‘chaps’ dressing up in funny disguises and doing sketch comedy that makes fun of Americans. Often pretty hilarious, and when it isn’t, no big deal. The sketch is over in a few minutes and a newer, more funny one is on. Recommend!

Swing Vote
Back in the summer of 2008 when there was an exciting election going on, some people might have felt like watching a stupid heartwarming ‘what if’ scenario about every vote counting and Kevin Costner being an average guy who becomes really important. But now that the election is over and we live in a post “Joe the Plumber” world, that scenario blows.

Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys/Marriage Counselor
A good way to lose all of your friends and also guarantee you’ll never get laid is to pretend that you’re really in to Tyler Perry movies, and always talk about how he’s a genius, and force anyone who comes over to your house to watch one of his movies with the surround sound blasting. You’ll be the loneliest person on the planet in a month, tops.