I Love You Man
March 30, 2009 by Inisia Lewis
Filed under Movies
Look. I Love You, Man will not be everyone’s cup of tea, and if you’ve seen previous films of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel like Role Models and Forgetting Sarah Marshall respectively, you might not find this film as laugh riotous. Yet to me, this was everything I was looking for a 24 year old who can understand the difficulties of balancing serious relationship with those girl friendships that need and deserve attention as well. I laughed from start to finish and would watch it again just to catch all the subtle nuances I’m sure I missed. The best part about the film was they reminded me of real people, of people I know and love for their endearing quirks and ticks. The humor was never too over the top, though of course there’s are a bunch of full on gags that are designed to be over-the-top. And though there’s a great cast in this film, Rudd and Segel are the shining stars. Hopefully, they’ll be spending a lot more time on the big screen together after the comedic chemistry that oozed of that screen.
Director John Hamburg (Along Came Polly) joined Seinfeld writer Larry Levin on writing the script. It’s a pretty cliché plot, a guy is getting married and realizes that he has no guy friends. Who’ll be his best man? The main storyline is Peter Klaven’s (Rudd) quest to start a bromance and find a new best dude. No future bride wants the bridal part to be three times the size of the groom’s party. Hello! Lopsided much?! Things don’t go so well when he meets dud after dud after gay dude after dud. But its as if the heavens part when he meets Sydney Fife (Segel). Though they’re completely different, the two mesh like peanut butter and jelly.
Of course, nothing is perfect. Sydney is a little bit of a rebel without a cause. Clearly, the type of guy who can 
make friends in a instance, but is always left behind when those friends grow up. He not only brings out the best in Peter, but he brings out a little bit of the worst too, and their relationship grows so close, so fast that even Zooey, played by Rashida Jones from the office, gets jealous. I’m sure you can see where the story goes from there.
Some of the funniest parts include a great supporting cast with the beautiful Jaime Pressley as Zooey’s best friend, Jon Favreau as the BFFs asshole husband, J.K. Simmons, the go to funny pop (Juno) and a scene stealing gay brother, played by Andy Samberg. However, like I said earlier, the funniest scenes of all are owned by Rudd and Segel. Whether it’s their silly nicknames for each other, Peter’s inability to act anything but awkward or the crazy that ensues whenever Sydney lays out some advice for his buddy, not a beat is missed between the two. All I can say is, thank you, man! And I love you too.
I used to like Paul Rudd but I don’t know if I like him anymore.
I love You Man was hilarious. My friends and I saw the movie twice. I can’t wait till the DVD comes out ! (:
(17 Again, Burbank, CA)
The SNL crew is becoming funny again. I like it.
(Observe & Report, Boston, MA)
I also found this movie to be hilarious, even moreso than the original poster described.
Earth (Disneynature), Pittsburgh, PA
I thought I Love You Man was GREAT. Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are brilliant together. So many lines, I was holding my stomach and wiping tears out of my eyes. Slappa da bass!
(17 Again Hollywood, CA)
I love this movie. I found myself smiling, if not laughing, majority of the time.
(Observe & Report, Sacramento,CA)
Edward Bienkowski, Atlanta, Georgia
I love you man is a very funny movie. It is great to see an original idea finally come out of Hollywood. This is a buddy movie with a unique twist.I Hope to see future parings of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel they have great onscreen chemistry. Well worth the price of addmission.
I saw this movie months ago as a pre-screening and was also pleasantly surprised by it. Funny movie, good actors, something a little different!
(17 Again, Tigard, OR)
I agree this movie was great, I went with my friends and they also said the movie was hilarious. This movie has a perfect combination of characters, especially Jason Segel. (Observe and Report, Sacramento, CA)
After seeing this movie for the second time, I can honestly say it was well done. The directing, acting, story line, all added up to one heck of a cute movie. Guys all know other guys like our hero. He just does not fit in with the crowd. That in itself is not a bad thing. Seems like the women had a problem with his type? If you had a beautiful wife, would you be crazy to spend as much time with her as you can? I think I would, forget the guy friends.
Observe and report, atlanta
I loved I Love You Man! Jason Segel was funny (and a bit disgusting…;)). Cameo appearance by Rush and Lou Ferrigno was great! (Observe & Report, Atlanta, GA)
It was a laughter riot…Grt funny movie .. ( Observe& Report , Atlanta )
it was awesome movie…
I hear this movie is really well done – still have not seen it just yet though.
(Observe and Report, Atlanta).
Didn’t really like the trailer myself for this movie, but Jason Segal was excellent in Sarah Marshall.
(Observe & Report, Sacramento, CA)