I finally got around to watching this movie today. I’ve been really bad about watching movies lately, and I’m a huge movie buff. I blame the cancellation of my Netflix account. Anywho, I am a huge huge Reese Witherspoon fan and this movie didn’t disappoint. I have never seen her in a quasi tomboy roll before and I thought she did an amazing job. I didn’t feel like she was acting. I never do.

So the premise of the movie is that Reese is a professional softball player named Lisa who just got cut from the team she was on for 12 years. Her whole world is basically shattered. She is also dating Owen Wilson who plays this egotistical ladie’s man/professional baseball player named Manny. I love how he has disposable toothbrushes and sweatshirt sets for his conquests so they don’t have to do the walk of shame. I’m pretty sure I’ve dated this man.

Lisa also goes out on an incredibly awkward first date with Paul Rudd’s character George, who is also going through a huge life crisis. His father got him into an incredible amount of legal trouble and his world is crashing down around him as well. They meet for dinner and George attempts to unload on her. She cuts him off and makes him sit there and eat quietly. Of course George is instantly smitten (who wouldn’t be, it’s Reese Witherspoon) and cheers up right away.

Then Manny, the total ladies man falls for Lisa after she opens up to him about getting cut from the team. He asks her to move in with him. I love that they’re both kind of stunted in the romance department. George is an ass but he’s kind of likeable in his assery (yeah it’s a word!).

The movie kind of peters out for me at the end. I think they could have done something more with it, but it’s still a cute one and worth renting.

I have to admit, when I saw the previews for I Love You Man, I thought it would be a movie about a guy’s friend who turns out to be a royal jackass, and who tries to ruin his friend’s upcoming nuptials.
What I didn’t expect was a funny, lighthearted comedy about two guys becoming friends, a true Bromance if you will.
I really liked this movie, and I would definitely see it again. So many funny quotes, and of course Paul Rudd and Jason Segel were great. I’ve been a Paul Rudd fan since the days of Clueless, and Jason steals the show on How I Met Your Mother as the lovable Marshall. When the two of them got together, the friendship sparks flew.

I liked that this movie didn’t choose a side in terms of the sexes. In a lot of romantic comedies, either the men are evil aside from the hero, or the women aside from the love interest. There were a lot of possibilities for the fiancee in this movie to be a sterotypical bitchy chick, and it really would have ruined the  movie for me. Instead, she was an understanding woman who let her man be a man. Something that a lot of women out there don’t seem to be able to do. It was a silly, fun movie that was perfect to watch with friends, and if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.