I Love You, Man

Peter Travers

Here's the thing about comedies: Even when the script is freighted with formula, the right actors can keep it afloat, even airborne. That's where I Love You, Man really lucks out. In a down market for giggles (Miss March? Please!), Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are howlingly funny. They have skills. They can get laughs without the sitcom pimping. It's a rare gift, staying hilarious and recognizably human. Their presence and ace comic timing kick the movie up a notch.
Director John Hamburg (Along Came Polly), who teamed on the script with Seinfeld writer Larry Levin, hangs the plot on a flimsy premise: A dude with no dude friends needs a dude to be best man at his wedding. [...]

di Peter Travers, articolo completo (3048 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Rolling Stone 19 marzo 2009