So I just back from seeing I Love You, Man – a movie that I really enjoyed. Lots of good laughs. The main character, played by Paul Rudd – definitely a Nice Guy! Since it’s the weekend and I am feeling lazy (and wanting to watch the NCAA tournament), I’ll let Owen Gleiberman’s review in Entertainment Weekly do some of my talking.
“…the resonant joke of I Love You, Man is that the reason Peter has no pals is that he’s too sweetly sincere, too in touch with his sensitive side, to indulge in the gloriously insensitive modes of male bonding: the reckless sex chatter and sports talk, the need to be a guy, a dude.”
“Rudd shows us the awful eagerness to please that drives Peter’s strenuous attempt to fit in. He’s as mesmerizingly pathetic as Austin Powers, only Peter is a dork you can believe in. The more your face turns red for him, the more you root for him. That’s what makes Paul Rudd a star. I Love You, Man is a guy-meets-guy ”romantic” comedy, and it’s part of the film’s merry topical wink at how men have been changed by girl-power culture that Peter has no trouble relating to women, but to relate to men he must first figure out how to be one.”
I urge all Nice Guys to see this movie. With their buddies.
🙂 Peter
