Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #403 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-08-24
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

Synopsis
After years of stealing scenes from the leading men in such movies as KNOCKED UP and THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, Paul Rudd finally headlines a star vehicle of his own. Unlike those Judd Apatow productions, it's John Hamburg (ALONG CAME POLLY) who directs I LOVE YOU, MAN, albeit with many of the touchstones of Apatow's highly successful freaks-and-geeks-with-heart aesthetic. In other words, this is not an Apatow film, but, with the male capacity for--and simultaneous inability to express--fraternal love as its core comic conceit (and emotional centrepiece), it may as well be.
Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a real estate agent with a blossoming career and an imminent marriage to Zooey (THE OFFICE's Rashida Jones)--basically, he's lucky in all things except male bonding. The narrative arc centres on his quest for platonic man-love--as opposed to, say, finding the girl of his dreams--and follows the boilerplate dictates of a standard rom-com with a subversive wink. In this case, boy meets boy, boys bond over their common love of Rush and Andre the Giant, boys break up and make up, etc. Rudd and co-star Jason Segel (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL), a fellow Apatow alum who plays Sydney Fife, the Type B object of Klaven's affection, imbue their roles with winning charisma and elevate the plot with real and nuanced chemistry. With a whip-smart pace, the film continually tills fresh comic ground as Hamburg finds punctuation points in every scene and never lets a gag overstay its welcome. While the supporting cast features many memorable turns by the likes of Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, and Andy Samberg, I LOVE YOU, MAN ultimately belongs to Rudd, who approaches insecurity and social awkwardness with the same dead-eye marksmanship that Peter Sellers did for slapstick.

Customer Reviews

Lots of laughs
Paul Rudd has really developed into a bankable leading man in recent times and it's a fact well proven here. This is an effortless comedy that ticks all the right boxes. Jason Segel plays his usual lazy self and between them they wring every last drop of comedy out of the script.
The supporting cast are all great too, particularly Jon Favreau, Lou Ferrigno and Jaime Pressley (and the newspaper boss from the Spiderman movies).
There are enough laugh out loud moments in this film to make it worth watching more than once. Mind you, going up to the big fella at the cinema kiosk and saying "I love you, man" was an experience I'll not want to repeat.

Bromance: A love story
Hollywood is clogged with chick-flickery - some excellent, most below par - and it was only a matter of time before someone finally thought to make a chick-flick for dudes. A bromance, right up there on the big screen.

"I Love You, Man" stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a friendless chap who has just become engaged. Segel (of Forgetting Sarah Marshall fame; not to be confused with Seth Rogen of Knocked Up) plays Sydney Fife, the extra-marital "love" interest.

This is very much a comedy - primarily of the lowest common denominator sort, it has to be said - and a jolly funny one. But it touches on a genuine issue, I think, which is what could possibly make this a bit of a trend-setter in terms of films for men. Chick flicks flourished as a genre because us burds can identify with them, and I imagine lots of men will see themselves in this. You see, it deals with the dynamic of men who don't have male friends. While a woman with no friends is considered odd (it's unfair, but it's true), it's far more normal, and unspoken with fellas: it doesn't make them defective, and it's just seen as one of those things. Rudd's Klaven is that man, and when he realises he has no best man for his wedding, he has to go in search.

What are the rules for that search? How do you go about finding a friend when you're a grown man? (Incidentally, this film may persuade you not to look online.) Enter Sydney Fife... a charismatic "bloke's bloke" who refuses to settle down. Meanwhile, he has an entirely different set of problems. What are the rules for when you're an adult man, and your entire group of lifelong friends have all gotten married, and had kids, and you find yourself alone in your man-shed eating a 6ft Sub on your lonesome because everyone else is busy living their lives?

In this respect, it's definitely easier being a woman, and it was interesting seeing that dynamic play out between males. I tend to think a large percentage of men will be able to identify with at least one of the characters in here - and that way success lies.

Turk and JD (Scrubs) may be the characters that have brought male friendship to the filmic fore, and it's a good thing. Even as a ladylay, I enjoyed it, but it's definitely one for the boys and, after decades of films for and about women, it's about time.

Brilliant in every way
so funny, this film exceded my expectations, i expected this to be a typical romcom, romance story with typical over the top comedy that makes you smile but never really laugh, but this is so much better, it's got really touching heart felt storylines that you'd want from a romance film but with real out loud laughs thrown in and the comedy is very realistic and believable with two very likable leads. a proper romcom that can be enjoyed by both sexes equally.