Cast: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin; Director: Howard Deutch; Producers: Guymon Casady, Dane Cook, Adam Herz, Doug Johnson, Barry Katz, Gregory Lessans, Josh Shader, Brian Volk-Weiss; Screenwriter: Jordan Cahan; Music: John Debney; Editor: Seth Flaum; Genre: Sexy Drama/ Comedy; Cinematography: Jack N. Green; Distributor: Lionsgate; Location: Massachusetts, USA ; Running Time: 100 min.;Technical Assessment: 2
Moral Assessment: 2
CINEMA Rating: For mature viewers 18 and above
Tank (Dane Cook), a call center agent and self-acclaimed “expert” on women psyche takes on a part time job as a break-up fixer for men friends who want to win back their women. This "part time job" does not spare his best friend Dustin (Jason Biggs) who seeks his "expertise" and pays him to win his lady love Alexis (Kate Hudson). Taking the word of Tank that the deal will be a mere plain job, Dustin is thankful and he thinks Tank's tactics are working to his advantage. Tank takes the job in consideration of his friendship only to realize that Alexis is not an easy subject. However, the two of them quickly become frequent sex partners and discovery of this affair hurts Dustin. How will this betrayal affect the friendship and what will happen to the affair of Tank and Alexis.
My Best Friend's Girl tries to present a comedy which is not actually funny and a love story without the context of love. Rather it is a full package of vulgar words and sexual innuendos. Though sex scenes are short and not too explicit, they are frequent and carried out as an overall theme in the entire film. Acting is minimal and so are cinematic effects. The director fails to project the element of true love in what is meant to be a love story. Overall the film is technically below average.
Sex and love are things that can bring about a lot of good in people's lives. This film however, distorts the meaning of both and worst, presents women as sex objects and very weak creatures. It presents a pattern of break-up and reconciliation among relationships as orchestrated by a person who appears to have mastered women psyche and yet does not show any sensitivity towards them. Although the film ends showing how friendships can pick up from betrayal through forgiveness, acceptance, letting go and giving way, it was obviously not the main message that was carried out in the entire run of the film. Excessive use of vulgar words, implied sexual contents, frontal nudity, gender stereotyping of women as sex objects are offensive matters evident in this film.
