Review of My Best Friend's Girl

And I like gross-out comedy. After a slick title sequence which felt like it had been added later some dreadful music set the alarm bells ringing. And then the lead character "Tank" (and he really tanks) - he's not going to be like this all the way through the film is he??? Oh yes he is. And what was with the product placement for Malboro cigarettes - with the "smoking kills" emblem on the packet carefully obscured? Is the idea that we watch this dreadful film, get hooked on smoking, and then kill ourselves? And what about the poor actress who has to risk her life smoking these things just to sell them? Or were those fake cigarettes? That would be a brilliant irony. In this film people smoke in bars, at the breakfast table and even in church. Uh, right. So let's get smoking. Kate Hudson is about 10years too old for her part, and Tank is about 15. Worst scene - sleazy father and son together in a bar "eyeing up" the chicks. Best scene - Kate Hudson playing a reverse on Tank and inviting him up to her pad for sex after he's been a jerk; a scene Kate performed with genuine freshness and dare I say it - some truth. Good for her. Sadly no one else did. The premise simply doesn't stand up. Any woman treated the way these women were by Tank would be put off men for a year - not go running back into the arms of their last dud boyfriend. To be bad you have to be super-bad but this film just reeks of woman-hating.