71 – My Best Friend’s Girl

Our Summer of Weddings and Margs swaggers onward with a rom (?) com (??) that's somehow so shitty it nearly circles back around to having something to say about masculinity and relationships (ALMOST). Listen in with Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they watch and discuss 2008's My Best Friend's Girl starring Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin and a bunch of other poor bastards. Think back on our nation's brief early-2000s love affair with the comedic stylings of Dane Cook as we cover the woefully unfunny jokes, a plot that somehow unintentionally makes everyone awful, and direction so lacking in nearly any sense of style that the movie seems to have burst forth fully-formed from the nostril of a coke-addled producer. Also, there's the most basic-ass margarita you could ever imagine, one only fitting for a movie that can't even muster the energy to be mediocre. On behalf on the city of Boston, we're very sorry we allowed this movie to be shot here. Continue reading →