I LOVE YOU, MAN (Paramount, 2009) D: John Hamburg, w/ Paul Rudd, Jason Segel. Rating: NN DVD package: NNN Rating: NN
There’s a good story idea and some amusing moments, but in the end all you’re likely to recall from I Love You, Man is Jason Segel’s amiable persona. Star Paul Rudd, not so much. Some actors have great screen presence. With Rudd, it’s more a screen absence when he enters a scene, it feels like somebody interesting just left.
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Rudd plays Peter, an L.A. real estate agent on the hunt for a male friend because he needs a best man. He finds Sidney (Segel). They hit it off and hang out. Mild laughs ensue.
Some of the better humour comes from the supporting cast, notably Jaime Pressly and Jon Favreau as a bickering husband and wife. They’re even funnier in the extras section in a collection of probably improvised outtakes. In the commentary, director John Hamburg proudly points to all the improvised moments, most of them no better than the scripted material.
EXTRAS Hamburg/Rudd/Segel commentary, making-of, gag reel, extended and deleted scenes. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.
