I love you man

The newly minted “bromance” genre, with its now-familiar mix of the sweet, awkward and raunchy, has entered the cultural consciousness through comedies like “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” and “Role Models.”

But it reaches its zenith with “I Love You, Man,” starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel as completely different guys who form an unlikely friendship.

Rudd’s Peter Klaven, a sensitive Los Angeles real estate agent who’s about to get married, realizes he has no male pals when it’s time to choose a best man. He’d rather make root beer floats for his fiancee Zooey (the lovely Rashida Jones) and her girlfriends or cuddle with her on the couch for Sunday-night HBO viewing.

Segel’s Sydney Fife enters his life as the most charming force of nature, inspiring Peter to jam along to Rush tunes and tap into his inner rage. He lives in a ramshackle Venice bungalow and functions by his own set of rules, which includes wooing divorcees at open houses and refusing to pick up after his puggle because he thinks dog feces are a healthy part of the environment. Segel gives the character a well-intentioned puppy-doggishness of his own, though, which makes him unexpectedly likable.

0 comments

Add your comment

Nickname:

E-mail:

Website:

Comment:

Other articlesgo to homepage

	Why Do We Never See Baby Pigeons?(0) Back in the day in Asia, where pigeons originated, they were cliff-dwellers. They built their nests high up, stuck to the sides of vertical drops. Though the scenery has changed, pigeons’ nesting habits have not. In cities, even though we see pigeons hopping around the sidewalk, they tend to lay their eggs in nests built

	Did Elizabeth Taylor Really Have Violet Eyes?(1) Elizabeth Taylor will be remembered for many things — her passionate performances in films, fondness for expensive jewelry, multiple marriages and, of course, those famous violet eyes. Thanks to colored contact lenses, anyone can have violet-colored eyes these days. Taylor didn’t come by her purple peepers that way; the first tinted contact lenses weren’t commercially

	Koalas Have Human-like Fingerprints(1) What’s a forensic investigator’s worst nightmare? Hint: It’s a whole lot cuter than whatever you were imagining. A crime in a zoo’s koala cage would probably confound the efforts of even the best detectives. Why? Because koalas, doll-sized marsupials that climb trees with babies on their backs, have fingerprints that are almost identical to human

	Book says Anna Wintour most connected celebrity(0) If you want to get somewhere in the showbiz industry, you might want to start hanging out with Vogue editor Anna Wintour. A new book by University of Southern California professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, titled “Starstruck,” claims Wintour is “the ultimate gatekeeper” of celebrity, the New York Daily News reports. Currid-Halkett analyzed a year’s worth of

	Fergie Dons Thong Bikini(0) Fergie got cheeky in south Brazil yesterday with husband Josh Duhamel — the same day Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Ludacris, Tyrese and the rest of the “Fast and the Furious 5″ cast hit the beach in Rio.