Movie #147 "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" had some good irreverent moments --- Simon Pegg is very funny, and I've enjoyed him and all the ladies in here in a number of movies. However, this got a bit crude and way too outlandish for me.. I felt the movie could have spent less time showing his boorish, crude, disrespectful side because it was hard to like him throughout the film --- there were just a couple of moments where he showed his humanity, not enough for me to care what happened to him and to see him as better than the people he stalks for a story. And then if the viewer doesn't really care for Sidney, then that greatly affects the love story here, as it did for me. By the end, I really didn't care. But there were some good moments, esp. with Cuba, the dog --- where have I seen that dog jumping out the window for a chew toy before? And there's a variation on that here that's very funny!
Average rating: 3.207
I gave it 3 stars
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
(2008) R
After his bent for muckraking nets him a job at a glossy Big Apple magazine, boorish British tabloid writer Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) tries to curry favor with his imperious boss (Jeff Bridges) and the synthetic glitterati Sidney covers -- with disastrous results. A co-worker (Kirsten Dunst), a ditsy starlet (Megan Fox) and a dragon-lady publicist (Gillian Anderson) are among those he alienates in this caustic comedy based on Toby Young's memoir.
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