Pressly also co-star as a longtime couple who bicker incessantly. (It is fun, though, to see Favreau play the arrogant jerk for a change and not the needy mensch.)

“I Love You, Man” didn’t need all that obvious, crass stuff. Its sensitive side was far more attractive.

“I Love You, Man,” a DreamWorks Pictures release, is rated R for pervasive language, including crude and sexual references. Running time: 105 minutes. Three stars out of four.