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A test screening review of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel's I LOVE YOU, MAN! comes in!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an early review of a flick not slated to hit theaters until January of next year called I LOVE YOU, MAN starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, both very, very funny men. Based on the cast (and cameo) list alone, I'll be seeing this. I'm a sucker for crazy comedian cameo-laden movies... Here's an unnamed source with his/her/its thoughts on the flick!
PAUL RUDD in "I LOVE YOU, MAN"
The film is written and directed by John Hamburg, who directed the Ben Stiller comedy "Along Came Polly," which holds a 26 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Seeing that "I Love You Man" is a film starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, I figured Judd Apatow had something to do with the flick, but he didn't. Ivan Reitman helped produce, so maybe that's how it got made, who knows.
First and foremost, Paul Rudd is fucking great. Just great. He has a million of these nervous ad-libbed nonsensical words he says throughout the film that are hilarious. Viewers will be quoting two things when leaving the film: "Jobin" and "Slappin' da bass."
The story is about a guy (Rudd) with no guy friends who sets out to find a best friend to be his best man at his wedding to the smoking hot Rashida Jones (from The Office). He meets Segel and the two become best friends. I like the tentative title "Bromance" better than "I Love you Man," but I'm not the studio. Anyway, the movie is full of great cameos like J.K. Simmons (the pompous newspaper editor from Spiderman) as Rudd's dad, and Andy Samberg as Rudd's gay advice-toting personal trainer brother. Dangle from Reno 911 also plays a funny gay guy who hangs out with Rudd thinking they are on a date, and that little weird guy from Superbad (the guy who hits Jonah Hill with his car then takes he and Michael Cera to that party) is a funny little excited character whose voice cracks every three seconds. Jaime Pressly is Rashida Jones' best friend and Jon Favreau plays Pressly's husband, and they are funny as shit, especially Favreau with his dry sense of comedy.
There are a few formulaic parts such as the ending, but there's enough funny stuff in there to make it overall recommendable.
Segel spouts nuggets of wisdom and drifts through life just like the Dude in Big Lebowski, but I'm not sure why they made him dress just like the Dude, that made him look like a younger rip-off. And Lou Ferrigno (who plays himself) is featured prominently because Rudd is trying to sell Ferrigno's house. The only thing that irked me is that in one scene, Ferrigno is chatting on a cell phone. He's fucking deaf. What dumbass writer in Hollywood makes that mistake? John Hamburg, I guess. It would be different if Ferrigno was playing someone else, but he's playing Lou Ferrigno, a famous 85% deaf lip-reader, and they have him on a cell phone as if people will forget that the man cannot hear.
Segel gets a C+ cause his comedic timing was good but he's not that memorable, Rudd gets an A cause now I want to watch more films of him as the main part, Favreau gets a B+ cause he made me laugh out loud, all the minor cameos get a B cause they all made me laugh with their limited screen time. The director John hamburg gets a C because the style was very vanilla and any director worth his salt could have made a funny film with all those great people. Give me your style, make it unique, put your stamp on the film, then I'll respect you as a director. None of these were done. Overall, it's a film worth seeing. High marks for unexpected laugh: the projectile vomit scene.
There's my review. In case you were wondering.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
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After watching FSM, I will watch anything with Segal and Rudd! I LOVE THEM, MAN!!!
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They oughta call it that. It's a buzzword right now and this could be the movie that defines and claims it. Everybody wants to see Bromance. Who wants to see I love you man?
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Hey, Paul Rudd. I love you man.
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"When life gives you lemons, I say fuck the lemons and bail"
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you mean Joe Lo Truglio? I hate you...
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...a little photosynthesis taking place here i feel.
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...this does feel like a press release.
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gets a C-
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And Paul Rudd is the man.
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I knew he was in this film, I love that guy - hilarious actor.
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I remember seeing him in a lot late 90s comedies, clueless, one with witherspoon, and when I saw him in friends I thought his career was over but alonh came ron burgundy and look at himm now
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version of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I know it came out first, but it's still shit. Segal & Rudd are sheer liquid wonderment though, so I look forward to this. Rudd was quite funny in FSM. "You saaahnd like you're fram Lahndaaaahn!" Me and my friends quoted that heaps last time we were in London. Luckly no-one kicked our heads in or stabbed us up!
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...I had the other night. I was at some sort of preview or premier at a theatre, and the Appatow people were there, and I got a chance to talk to Jason Siegal, and I was a bit sicophantic about my appraisal of Forgetting Sarah Marshal, saying that I thought it was "Brilliant", and he looked a bit "meh", and said "Yeah, it was okay. It didn't really work out as good as I wanted it to". I was left looking like an idiot, especially as that's how I feel about the film really. The moral of this dream is, "Just Be Yourself". Or talk about Freaks & Geeks.
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As I understand it, he is not completely deaf. I interviewed him once for my paper, and he needed to look at me to understand, but he can still hear things. And, anyway, who gives a shit if Ferrigno is on a cell phone?
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Oct 04, 2008 11:11:33 AM CDT
Just watched Sarah Marshall on BlueRay last night, again
by stormwatcher
and its just plain awesome. I look forward to this.
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That's right!
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I didn't see the movie and i can tell that it's a joke when he's talking on the cell phone. If a guy well known as deaf is yelling on a cell phone in a comedy, its called a joke, man
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Can someone talk to me please?
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Oct 04, 2008 5:26:24 PM CDT
I may have missed it-- did anyone on AICN review Role Models?
by sherman_lives
That's one I enjoyed, looking forward to catching it again in the theater. And this review is a plant.
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"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"
That scene in FSM had me in tears. It comes out of fucking nowhere. I was still laughing 5 minutes later. Holy shit. -
Who gives a fuck if Ferrigno talks on a phone in movie?! Does NPH really like random pussy? Get over it.
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I was a PA on the scene when Rush plays "Limelight" and Paul Rudd and Jason Segel get all bromantic with each other. I wonder if that scene was left in the movie....fuck it nobody actually gives a shit!
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It's called HAC using Tcoil. @ The reviewer: Use your brain and don't assume that it was a Hollywood mistake. I know alot of Hearing Impaired People who use Cell Phones with LESS than 15% Hearing Capability. Stick to Reviewing, not talking about things that you're ignorant of.
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I've seen Lou Ferrigno at conventions using a cell phone asshole.
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Love that guy. The State was the best.
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I don't know how deaf Lou Ferrigno is SUPPOSED to be, but he's not fully deaf. I sat through his Q&A at Dragon Con a month ago, and he could hear the questions from the audience just fine as long as they spoke up (he certainly couldn't read everyone's lips). He actually mentioned this flick, and said he had a great time working with Rudd and Segal. But he's not completely deaf.
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