‘I Love You, Man’ different love story
“I Love You, Man” is a love story of sorts involving a soon-to-be married man and another guy.
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But there’s nothing gay or bisexual about the main character in this funny and well-done comedy.
Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a romantic, sensitive guy. He’s everything a girl could want. He makes all of the right moves, on his knee, asking girlfriend Zooey (played by Rashida Jones) to marry him. She says yes.
Ah, but there must be a conflict or there’s no real storyline, right?
Zooey has a gaggle of girlfriends she spends time with and tells them the most intimate details of her time with Peter. There’s plenty of girls’ nights with lots of laughing and bonding.
Rudd’s character, however, has no guy friends, thus comes the conflict.
He’s not a bad guy but he just can’t relate to guys and sports. His father, hilariously played by J. K. Simons, who was Juno’s father as well, discusses at the dinner table who his best friends are and flat out says his son has no male friends.
Mom, played by an aging Jane Curtain, readily agrees.
Well, the bride can’t have a half-dozen or so bridesmaids, while there are no groomsmen.
This begins the somewhat painful process of finding a male friend. The film does use a familiar formula taken from many romantic comedies. He searches for the right person but nobody clicks. He gives up.
Ah, then he meets someone, played by Jason Segel. The two people meet, click, spend time together, have fun, get to know each other, relate, break up and by the end of the movie, make amends.
Segel really makes this movie. He’s happy-go-lucky and knows human nature.
Segel plays Sydney Fife who spends his leisure hours making the rounds of real estate open houses, checking out the food.
Rudd plays a real estate agent in a big office. His choice client happens to be Lou Ferrigno, TV’s “Incredible Hulk,” who is selling his luxury home.
It’s at the Hulk home that the pair meet, hit it off and go out for drinks later.
“I Love You, Man” is a love story of sorts involving a soon-to-be married man and another guy.
| |
But there’s nothing gay or bisexual about the main character in this funny and well-done comedy.
Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a romantic, sensitive guy. He’s everything a girl could want. He makes all of the right moves, on his knee, asking girlfriend Zooey (played by Rashida Jones) to marry him. She says yes.
Ah, but there must be a conflict or there’s no real storyline, right?
Zooey has a gaggle of girlfriends she spends time with and tells them the most intimate details of her time with Peter. There’s plenty of girls’ nights with lots of laughing and bonding.
Rudd’s character, however, has no guy friends, thus comes the conflict.
He’s not a bad guy but he just can’t relate to guys and sports. His father, hilariously played by J. K. Simons, who was Juno’s father as well, discusses at the dinner table who his best friends are and flat out says his son has no male friends.
Mom, played by an aging Jane Curtain, readily agrees.
Well, the bride can’t have a half-dozen or so bridesmaids, while there are no groomsmen.
This begins the somewhat painful process of finding a male friend. The film does use a familiar formula taken from many romantic comedies. He searches for the right person but nobody clicks. He gives up.
Ah, then he meets someone, played by Jason Segel. The two people meet, click, spend time together, have fun, get to know each other, relate, break up and by the end of the movie, make amends.
Segel really makes this movie. He’s happy-go-lucky and knows human nature.
Segel plays Sydney Fife who spends his leisure hours making the rounds of real estate open houses, checking out the food.
Rudd plays a real estate agent in a big office. His choice client happens to be Lou Ferrigno, TV’s “Incredible Hulk,” who is selling his luxury home.
It’s at the Hulk home that the pair meet, hit it off and go out for drinks later.
Fife shows Peter his “man cave,” and the two end up jamming to Rush. They jam to Rush a lot. Enough with “Tom Sawyer.”
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Rudd spends time with Segel’s character to the point it infringes on Rudd and Jones’ characters Sunday night HBO time. At first, Rudd is taken back by the idea of foregoing Sunday HBO. After all, he laments, it’s not TV, it’s HBO.
Ferrigno is hilarious as he demands to know what is being done to sell his overpriced home.
The characters in the film are well drawn and while the plot familiar, there are enough variations to keep it interesting.
The cast of characters who end up becoming the groomsmen are a real eclectic bunch and the wedding is a highlight of the film.
The movie casts different lights on the traditional roles of males and females and does it very well.
There are some crude scenes and language, but it is a film that will draw both men and female.
You’ll love it, man
I LOVE YOU, MAN
• Directed by John Hamburg
• Written by Hamburg and Larry Levin (screenplay)
• Runtime: 105 minutes
• Rated R for language, crude sexual references
• 4 stars out of 5
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