Just Friends
by Roger Kumble
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Actor: Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, Chris Marquette, Ryan ReynoldsDirector: Roger Kumble
Brand: REYNOLDS,RYAN
Producer: Bill Johnson
Producer: Cale Boyter
Producer: Chris Bender
Producer: J.C. Spink
Producer: Jake Weiner
Producer: Jim Seibel
Writer: Adam 'Tex' Davis
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Just Friends
DVD Review: Don't Miss The Christmas Lights Scene!
Summary: 5 Stars
When this showed up in the mail I thought it was going to be really dumb. But it was actually a pretty good movie and funny too! It actually has a story and funny characters. Ryan Reynolds stars as an ex geek once in love with his best friend from high school played by Amy Smart. After high school he becomes a big shot record exec. and returns home about 10 years later due to a microwave explosion on the company private plane caused by his ditsy rock star client. He meets up again with his high school crush and all hell ensues. Don't miss the Christmas light scene, I hadn't laughed so hard since I saw the 40 Year Old Virgin. Two thumbs up.
DVD Review: Just Friends - Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of the sweetest and funniest movies. Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart (Chris and Jamie) best friends in high school. Chris has a crush on Jamie but after a confession of love in a yearbook is read to the whole class, Chris feels like his chances with Jamie are over. Fast forward to the present day and Chris (now 200lbs lighter) is a music executive who returns to his home town with a music stars, played by Anna Faris, who in my opinion steals the movie when ever she is on the screen - the fun really begins. I love this movie for its laughs, for the sweetness. It is a great movie.DVD Review: it hits too close to home
Summary: 3 Stars
i've tried watching this several times...i usually manage to get into the first 40 minutes or so of it, then i take it out...it's funny , but it's also painful to watch...how people are the whole high school experience...the whole unrequited love thing...so, i'm not gonna say much else about this film...but i always did think ryan was underratd as an actor..."waiting" is one of my personal favorites of his....DVD Review: Why Do I Like This Movie?
Summary: 4 Stars
Ryan Reynolds reminds me of the pompous jerk back in my high school days, the kind of arrogant, shallow, superficial nobody we would give wedgies to after gym class. So any movie featuring an actor who conjures up all of these images and feelings is inherently behind the eight-ball; the film is going to have to have something else going for it to entreat me to even watch.
Such is the case with JUST FRIENDS. And I still don't know why.
Yes I do. Anna Faris and Chris Marquette. Faris, playing an airhead Hollywood diva (and a very emotionally unstable one at that), is over the top in a very good way, while Marquette, playing kid brother to Reynolds, is hysterical. When these two actors are on screen I stand up and pay attention. Plus JUST FRIENDS has more than its fair share of physical comedy, which I grudgingly admit Reynolds does well.
A former porker who is now a Hollywood big shot (Reynolds) comes back to his Jersey hometown to discover he still has romantic feelings for the love of his adolescent life (Amy Smart)--even though their relationship was always benignly platonic. Meanwhile he must pacify his out-of-control client (Faris), who is not enjoying her stay in the frigid Jersey town as Yuletide approaches. Self-denial, misunderstanding, pride, and then mayhem ensue; the result, comedic bliss. Then JUST FRIENDS wraps up its closing credits featuring Reynolds in a fat suit lip syncing a Boyz II Men ballad. Can't think of a better way to watch this guy perform.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
DVD Review: Not the best Ryan Reynolds flick
Summary: 1 Stars
Just watch this movie on Comedy Central about an hour ago. Ryan Reynold Plays Chris Brander, a nice guy who use to be a fat teenager in High School, and has shared a long relationship with a nice girl named Jamie played by the lovely Amy Smart. Now Chris is now a music agent. His boss played by Stephen Root known as the voice of Bill Dauterive on TV King of the hill. Wants him to hire this gal named Samantha played by Scary movie star Anna Faris. This movie came out 2 month after Waiting which stars both Reynolds and Faris. Samantha is a wild and crazy girl who acts like she back in 5th grade. So Chris becomes Samantha agent. The city Paris wants Samantha to perform a concert durning the christmas season.So Chris has to go to paris with Samtha to perform a concert, and is force to spend the holidays with her. The plane catches on fire from a cooking in the microwave disaster. So the holidays become more of a disaster when insted of going to paris. Chris take Samantha with him to his mother house. Chris mother played by Julie Hagerty best know for Airplane 1 and 2 and Lost in american. gets to meet Samantha. So while Chris is home for the holidays, He decide to go to a bar named the maple inn, yes the movie take place in Canada and was filmed in Canada, and Ryan Reynold is from Canada. While he is at the bar, he meets with this couple who he use to know in high school. But when he goes to order a drink. He sees his pal Jamie who is the bar tender. So he decides to get to together with Jamie. So before he go to see Jamie and decide to take her out to a nice diner, he sends Samantha with his braty kid brother. Chris does this to Samantha every time he is about to spend the days and evening with Jamie. By the time christmas eve arives. Chris turns from a nice and sweet loving guy like he was in high school to a nasty scrooge. Call it a Canadian christmas carol with just scrooge without the ghosts and Tiny Tim. Things start to go wrong with Chris and Jamie and their long term friendship get sent to the grave. But the day after christmas, Chris returns to his apartment in LA. Samantha drops in on a big surpise. So Chris decides to go back to his old self when he relize s that the one thing that ment to him was Jamie. The only thing he wants to do is go to the next level, and that is to return to his home town and ask Jamie to marrie him. And she saids yes. Well its a good thing that I decided to do my christmas shopping and go see the 4th Harry Potter Film then this holiday bomb. So if you want to see a better Ryan Reynolds popcorn flick. Rent National Lampoons Van Wilder and Smoking Aces
Description of Just Friends
Back in high school, Chris (Reynolds) was an overweight nerd and in love with his best friend Jamie (Smart), but she only thought of him like a brother. Ten years later, Chris is now a hot L.A. music exec and finds himself himself back in his hometown and in love with Jamie all over again. But can they really be more than Just Friends?DVD Features:
Alternate endings
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Gag Reel
Music Video
Theatrical Trailer
Manic energy and an agreeable level of comic insanity turn Just Friends into the kind of brainless comedy you can enjoy as a modest guilty pleasure. If you liked director Roger Kumble's previous comedy The Sweetest Thing (and let's face it, that movie had some really funny moments), chances are you'll get at least a few solid belly-laughs from this not-so-high-concept premise, in which a formerly fat high-schooler named Chris (Ryan Reynolds) is transformed, ten years later, into a womanizing music executive with a high-profile client (Anna Faris) in the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera mold. As it zips along with some broad-stroked slapstick and snappy one-liners, the screenplay by Adam Tex Davis contrives to reunite Chris with Jamie (Amy Smart), the former cheerleader who was the great, unrequited love of Chris' miserable high-school life. By his narcissistic logic, he'll seduce her by treating her badly (i.e. she'll want what she thinks she can't have), but he gets unexpected competition in the form of a "Mr. Sensitive" type (Chris Klein, from American Pie), and it's pretty much Hollywood formula from there on, as Just Friends loses momentum without losing its basic appeal. And while Reynolds invests his character with an unexpected degree of emotional nuance, Faris (Scary Movie 3) pulls out all the stops, going deliriously over-the-top to maintain her reputation as a rising comedy starlet with a (hopefully) promising future. We're not talking rocket science here, folks... just sit back, take off your thinking cap, and have some fun. --Jeff Shannon
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