Hilarious, lmao Anna Faris stole the show in my opinion, with being simple and all lol

All right, well this is a nice idea with a nice moral, but the execution is pretty painful. I can see that Just Friends has a market with teenage girls and their male BFFs... in point of fact my younger sister really likes it and made me watch it, an... (read more) All right, well this is a nice idea with a nice moral, but the execution is pretty painful. I can see that Just Friends has a market with teenage girls and their male BFFs... in point of fact my younger sister really likes it and made me watch it, and her male BFF put on an amused face and said it had "a good concept." Though there are some laughs, I must say that if you are not a teenager, any humor might quietly asphyxiate under the excessive and incongruous stupidity of the characters. Adults in this movie behave like thirteen-year-olds and sometimes like malfunctioning robotic imitations of them. The main actor Ryan Reynolds clearly felt inspired by Jim Carrey, and I don't begrudge him that at all. Amy Smart plays his pretty friend (ie, long-term crush) and does quite well as a sweet twenty-something bewildered by the contortions men put themselves through. My real problem is with the hatefully stupid and abrasive caricature played by Anna Faris. She's like a cup of sugar and a lemon pip passing for lemonade. She's like getting hit in the ear with a frisbee when you want music. She has no redeeming feature. In short, she's about the least subtle thing I've ever seen. Everyone has their own tastes; what seems to me jarring and unrealistic may seem to you special and even just right--in both cases because of unusual emphasis. Often it is the same person who has these perceptions at different times. I don't fight it.

this was the funniest movie of 2005

ziemlich skurril, nur begrenzt lustig.

i know what it's like in the friend zone (IT SUCKS!!!). this film is very funny and gave me hope for the future, lol.

Painfully light on laughs.

... while the ending might be a foregone conclusion, getting there involves just enough slapstick manful idiocy to keep the humor moving at a clip.

A barbed romantic comedy with a distinct debt to the Farrelly brothers' gross-out-plus-sentimentality formula, Just Friends is a welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.

Just Friends shows that a lifeless idea can rise up out of its script crypt and put a stranglehold on 2,000-plus screens.

The best scenes in Just Friends take place offscreen.