Just Friends

Watched this movie last night after hearing Anna Farris is really good in the film. I enjoyed it overall. Thought it was a well conceived idea for a rom-com and quite well written. They get a lot of good details right - in casting, character choices, etc. Anna Farris is obviously great. The brother relationship is very good as well. A lot of the side characters are unique and funny - Chris Klein quite good, the kids are funny, and the depictions of parents as being clueless dopes no more mature than the kids counter the more obvious romantic comedy cliche as the know-it-all wise parent. Also a pretty accurate overall depiction of the present day hetero-sexual male feelings toward the female - a general condition of annoyance with certain types of girls and an embarrassing level of pussy/homo type behavior around a girl you really like.

Of course, the only problem with the film is Ryan Reynolds, who I find almost unwatchable at times. God, what has our society become where this guy is a romantic lead. Talk about a homo.