Just Friends (DVD) (WS)

Love this movie. Classic. Always end up making a reference or quoting the movie with my sister. Super funny!

My favorite movie

Good movie 💯

In this movie Chris Brander(Ryan Reynolds) has been teased by his classmates. It's a gloriously improvised comedy, so that we know we're to be humored by heightened expressions of misconceptions, brotherly fisticuffs, and competitiveness. Samantha(Anna Farris) is a famous musician that has signed on to the label represented by Chris's record company. This happens in the present, and Chris having been humiliated at a party in the past, is fused to current circumstances. Chris has realized his dream of becoming a music producer in LA, and is vice president of the production company. This is now, and is also a transition point for misprints to be carried along-the high school of mishaps has been folded into a continuum portfolio. There are moments of poignancy, as when three children share a cookie. Friendly laughter teaches us that children are always looking for soulmates. Chris is ready to tell Samantha that she isn't going to Paris, but to the 'Coffee House' club to perform. Chris's brother, Mike(Christopher Marquette) is already in the car driving seat eager to take Samantha to the engagement. In Chris's infatuation that we are following, his pursuit of Jamie Palomino(Amy Smart) is made into a playground amusement; as parochial as clumsily climbing over gel-glow blocks. While conflicts of the past are pursued straightforward, saturated in the background of some scene being played out, there exists secretively, sturdy confidences-there are other moods pulling at these friendly, jocular people, from other perplexities. Jamie probes Chris about his career. Chris has a thing, a boastful attitude because he thinks the way to Jamie's romantic interest is through success. It's endearing because behind closed doors Jamie shelves her annoyance through questions. Chris oppresses shock, in all it's forms-surprise, laughter, and disbelief. These non-gluttonous quirks are stimulated by the ruminations on the acts of other people in separate adventures. Samantha, as a guitar playing singer, casts out seriousness, but she has severe misconceptions about the motivations of perceived types who are forms of roguish provocation. Chris's brother Mike, asks the empty room to raise hands if anyone else has a brother who is a homosexual. Chris files out the door in rejection, past the remark, because he couldn't atone with Jamie. These counter-pointed scenes of vexation have parodies, and from foreign codes real dramas evolve. The instructive culture which provided blue prints has been deviated from. Intense emotions become involved. This is perfect for Chris and Jamie and Samantha and Dusty Dinkelman(Chris Klein), as now the folly of accusation is attached to these haphazard loves.

A romantic comedy with a modest budget, the box office for "Just Friends" surpassed expectations when it grossed a surprising $32.5 million domestically and that is no doubt due to its star talent. With Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Chris Klein headlining the cast, people going into "Just Friends" will get laughs aplenty with room to spare for a few genuinely touching moments. Chris Brander (Reynolds) is a lovable teenaged dweeb - shy, overweight and head-over-heels in love with his best friend Jamie Palamino (Smart), a girl from the popular crowd. No longer able to bottle his feelings, he confesses his love but gets the rejection he feared while being mortified in the process. Deciding that he will no longer be a suffering fool, he retreats on his bicycle, determined to make something of himself. Fast forward ten years and Chris is several pounds lighter, a successful record producer in Los Angeles and a real ladies' man who has broken more hearts than can be counted. Though he lives the life of which every bachelor dreams, Chris's unrequited love has made him a cynic and a womanizer. His just-desserts for his chauvinistic behavior come in the form of rising pop star and manic ex-girlfriend Samantha James (Faris), a singer that he is ordered to recruit for the record label for which he works. Jumping his bones the moment she sees him, Samantha suggests an impromptu trip to Paris but by a strange twist of fate they end up in Chris's home state of New Jersey and he decides to visit his family for the holidays. While trying to keep the psychotic and high-maintenance Samantha occupied, Chris looks up Jamie and much to his delight, she is still beautiful and still single. Resentful for having been kept in the "friend zone" all those years, he hatches a grand plan to take advantage of her but he doesn't count on falling in love with her all over again. He also doesn't count on some fierce competition in the form of Dusty Dinkleman (Klein), another shy and stuttering nerd who was also infatuated with Jamie. Now a confident and handsome part-time EMT who is positively enchanting on the guitar, Dusty pulls out all the stops to win her over and in the process reveals that he doesn't have the best intentions. A farcical war develops between the two men, one that has both of them cleverly disguising their own agendas while fighting the urge to expose the other (lest they expose themselves in the process). Though an inexperienced screenwriter, Adam "Tex" David's screenplay gets many laughs from its even-handed sarcasm and slapstick as well as the superb execution of the film's skilled comedic actors. Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to comedies - with the starring role in 2004's "Van Wilder" as well as the portrayal of another womanizer in 2005's "Waiting" (also opposite Anna Faris), his delivery and facial expression are dynamite. Klein, another comedic film veteran (Election, American Pie), impresses with his ability to cut loose and be absolutely insane as Dusty, a man whose ulterior motives become all too clear towards the end. Both of them are almost overshadowed by Anna Faris, a comedic actress made famous by her starring role in the Wayans brothers' "Scary Movie" trilogy. Faris is insanely funny as Samantha James, a ditzy and petulant celebrity who is sickly sweet one moment, horny another and then flying off the handle the next. Amy Smart tends to play the straight role in comedies whilst everyone else has all the fun and she does it again here as Jamie; despite being the only serious performance in the movie, she still holds her own next to Reynolds and Faris. Bottom line: Replete with an even mix of physical comedy as well as a good dose of wry humor, "Just Friends" will procure many chuckles from its keen writing, direction and performances.

a funny comedy...family friendly

just a funny great movie. my favorite is the brothers interactions with one another; just like real life

Hilarious

Love this movie.

I bought it for my partner and it didn’t work in a DVD also Xbox doesn’t work

Une histoire entre amour et amitié c’est le cas de l’enfant dire histoire bien sympathique et drôle pour certain dialogue je ne m’en lasse pas Ryan Reynolds et parfait dans son rôle je recommande très bon petit film romantique

Dieser Film machte mich bereits mit seiner Erstveröffentlichung 2007 zum absoluten Ryan Reynolds Fan. Als fett pupertärer Chris Brander gesteht er am Highschool Abschluss seiner besten Freundin Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart) seine Liebe. Nachdem diese ihn zurückweist, da sie ihn nur als guten Freund sieht und er zudem vom ganzen Jahrgang ausgelacht wird, verlässt er überstürtzt sein Heimatstädtchen um in der Großstadt Karriere zu machen. Dort verliert er Gewicht und wird zum übercoolen, gutaussehenden Womanizer. Sein Job bringt ihn mit Anna Farris zusammen, die in ihrer Rolle als durchgeknalltes Popsternchen witziger denn je daherkommt, und mit ihm versehentlich in seinem Heimatstädtchen strandet. Dort trifft Chris (Ryan Reynolds) auf seine Familie und auch auf seine alte Jugendliebe Jamie, die er seit dem damaligen Vorfall nicht mehr gesehen hat. Jetzt versucht er abermals ihr Herz zu gewinnen, in der Absicht ihr zu zeigen, was für ein cooler Typ er doch geworden ist. Und er tut alles daran um nicht wieder in der "Friend Zone" zu landen! Aber sein ach so großes Ego steht ihm immer wieder im Weg und bringt ihn von einem Schlamassel in den nächsten. Witzig auch Chris Marquette (The Girl Next Door) in der Rolle des kleinen Bruders, der sich ständig mit seinem großen Bruder in den Haaren hat. Erwähnenswert ist auch die Rolle von Chris Klein alias Dusty Dinkelman, den wir noch aus den Anfängen von American Pie kennen, und der ebenfalls als Ex-Looser aus Highschool Zeiten zum großen Rivalen von Reynolds wird, und versucht ihm Jamie abspenstig zu machen. Der Film spielt zur Weihnachtszeit in einer herrlich verschneiten Winterlandschaft. Der Stimmung entsprechend, sollte dieser Film daher nicht an heißen Sommertagen angeschaut werden. Die lustigen Outfits von Popsternchen Anna Farris kommen dann sicher auch besser zur Geltung.

Carino per una simpatica serata sul divano senza particolari pretese. Simpatici e capaci gli attori. Da ex cicciottello ho apprezzato il "messaggio"....