My Best Friend's Girl

"It seems that romantic comedies are moving away from their sweet as sugar roots and incorporating a ruder, coarser approach to getting laughs. Similar to outings like Wedding Crashers and Knocked Up, My Best Friend's Girl touches up the traditionally girly template with a liberal dose of laddish laughs. What next, action blockbusters for the ladies? That'd be ... interesting."

"Manages to distract auds from the predictability of the plot with fusillades of profanely funny dialogue and some playfully sexy chemistry generated by Cook and Hudson."

"A date not entirely to be skipped. It's a movie tailor-made for those who think it's a turn-on to passionately kiss someone to whom they've just said, "I hate you.""

"Struggles to find a balance between being a romantic comedy and a loutish, irreverent comedy."

"Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny."

"Eventually the conventions of romantic comedy take hold, with the humor declining precipitously."