I Love You, Man DVD Review

"I Love You, Man" reviews

DVD

I Love You, Man

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2009-08-14 14:22:34

Rating

3/5

Provider

DVD Review

Hollywood is in a Bro-mantic mood of late. We’ve already had the likes of Role Models and The Hangover recently, and I Love You, Man keeps up the current popular trend of male camaraderie.

The twist in I Love You, Man is that it follows the formula of a thousand rom coms but does so from the angle of a man trying to find a best man for his wedding.

Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is due to marry his beautiful fiancé (Rashida Jones), but she’s concerned that he doesn’t have many male friends. Cue an extended montage scene of Klaven embarking of a series of failed man-dates. – the worst of which sees him being kissed by a man who believed he was going on a proper date.

But just when Klaven is about to give up on finding that special guy, he meets Sydney Fyfe (Jason Segal) - a man who has never really grown up. Soon the pair are spending so much time in Fyfe’s man-cave (his very laddish bachelor pad) listening to 70s rockers Rush that Klaven’s fiancé gets worried about Fyfe becoming his best man.

It’s an incredibly slight comedy, and there’s nothing you haven’t seen before but, as Rudd’s Role Models and Segal’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall proved, the two leads are incredibly likeable to watch.

I Love You Man coasts on that chemistry, and while the supporting cast impress as well – most notably Andy Samberg’s younger gay brother Robbie – there is just not enough going to warrant future viewings.

Extras include a commentary and nearly an hour of deleted scenes and outtakes.

- Martin Howden