I Love You, Man

A perfectly pleasant movie that follows the buddy-comedy “bromance” recipe unabashedly. Rudd and Segel are both likeable and consistent. But I can’t honestly say I laughed a lot. The stakes were low, and the conflicts felt concocted to fill time. It doesn’t feel personal, like it was a real man’s real struggle. So the recipe’s a bit vanilla. For me, the best laughs come from Rudd when he struggles with his attempts at “dude” speak. Otherwise, you could do worse, but it’s no Forgetting Sarah Marshall.