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goshwow

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A hilarious movie that's smarter than you think. Watch it for the characters and gut busting hilarity.

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Posted mar 21, 2009 1:36 pm pt

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A very funny movie that had Jason and Paul do what they do best. The supporting cast added more humorous moments and one liners that will make this movie a classic once it comes to dvd and blu-ray.

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Posted mar 20, 2009 9:12 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  By far the best Judd Apatow comedy that Judd Apatow had nothing at all to do with.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  It's a hilarious comedy made even more successful because so much of the satire seems fresh.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  88
  This movie was absolutely hilarious, and proved that dating might be easy, but making friends is much harder.

  by Staff (Not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  88
  Above all, just plain funny. It's funny with some dumb physical humor, yes, and some gross-out jokes apparently necessary to all buddy movies, but also funny in observations, dialogue, physical behavior and Sydney Fife's observations as a people-watcher.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  88
  ILYM is the comedy that Rudd lovers have been waiting for since he first charmed us silly in "Clueless." It explores both the dweeby and heartthrobby sides of this guy whose crooked smile fails to mask his social anxiety.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  80
  It's a rare comedy that actually grows funnier on reflection. It benefits enormously from the talents of the two stars.

  by Stephen Farber | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  80
  I Love You, Man is totally formulaic, but the formula is unnervingly (and hilariously) inside out.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  80
  The movie delivers an absolutely complete, fully realized, delightfully novel redo of the hoariest of forms: the meet-cute, love-at-first-sight, break-up-and-make-up, racing-to-the-altar slapstick weepy that's been a staple of cinema since the invention of cinema.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  Apatow became the hottest comedy director in the business by seamlessly combining relationship comedy that didn't bore the guys and wild comedy that didn't nauseate the girls; this is a knockoff, pure and simple, but its wit and ingenuous characters prove how far the bar's been raised.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  80
  Despite the movie's many flaws, the two leads' genuine rapport is enough to give the audience a solid contact high.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  80
  Rudd's timing has always been good, but in I Love You, Man he gives the finest performance of his career, breaking his comic beats down into weird and wonderful fractional increments. It's as if he's invented a new comedy dialect.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  After delivering scene-stealing turns in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" Rudd claims the much-deserved spotlight in I Love You, Man, which in its own endearing way tweaks the very same male-bonding pieties that those movies made a fortune celebrating.

  by Ann Hornaday | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  There are ribald jokes and gross-out episodes, but the movie works because everything hinges on the camaraderie and undeniable chemistry between Rudd and Segel.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  75
  The result is a film that's comfortable and familiar, but at the same time feels fresh, fun, and original.

  by Jason Buchanan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  75
  This comedy of stereotypes pokes fun at poker buddies and coffee klatches only to make room for variations on more recent stereotypes. Some of the boldest 'types provide the funniest bits, such as Jon Favreau's embodiment of an upscale Stanley Kowalski who treats all-male card games as clan rites.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »