- HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE
This movie sounds like it would be something of an antithesis to Dale Carnegie Jr.’s book, “How To Win Friends And Influence People” but please don’t get your hopes up….it’s nowhere close to that. I’m even going to go to the extent of saying the title was only used as a ruse to attract the attention of moviegoers to a really substandard comedy (of sorts.) Want to know what the “other” ruse in the movie was? MEGAN FOX! She was definitely why I went to see it. That hot, foxy siren did her part and looked the sexy starlet she played in the movie. The main character of course is Sydney Young (Simon Pegg,) who plays an offensive reporter that pisses everyone off and gets hired (No idea why they hired him?) by a top New York publication where he struggles to succeed in the company (and to make us laugh and fails miserably,) to get laid and to fall in love all in one movie. I wonder why they can’t just stick to the comic trend of the movie instead of making a movie a romantic and motivational failure. Don’t bother watching it….even on DVD…except if you have to watch Megan Fox (no nude scenes from her though…I hear she has done some nude scenes in her upcoming movie, Jennifer’s Body, which is slated to release in 2009.)
Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) is his Big Boss; Alison Olsen (Kristen Dunst) his colleague who sympathises with him and later starts liking him; Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) a starlet that takes an affection to him as a “broken” man; and Aleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) as Sophie’s publicist. Don’t get me wrong….there are a few good laughs in here but they somehow don’t support the whole movie and it just lands flat on its face. Director: Robert B. Weide
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