'I Love You, Man,' offers new genre
Travis White
Issue date: 4/3/09 Section: Entertainment
The new genre of movies known as the "bromance," is any movie dealing with male bonding and excessively crude humor and raunchy one liners. The current leaders in this genre have been the likes of "Superbad", "The 40 year old Virgin" and "Wedding Crashers". Now these movies have a serious challenger and that is the new film "I Love you, man"
"I love you, man" starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel as two totally different people who form an unlikely friendship between themselves.
Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a sensitive and understanding Los Angeles Real estate agent who is about to get married, and then realizes after a comical dinner with his fiancée (Rashida Jones) and gay brother (Andy Samberg) and parents, that he has no male friends that could qualify as a best man. He would rather hangout with his fiancée and make root beer floats for her and her friends on girls night and watch Sunday night HBO programming.
Then there is Jason Segel. His character Sydney Fife comes into Peter's life very comically at one of Peter's open houses mooching off of the free sandwich buffet and looking to hook up with divorcees. Fife inspires peter to jam to Rush songs with him, and to tap into his inner rage that makes him a man. Fife lives in a small bungalow in Venice beach. He lives by his own set of rules, which includes mooching off open houses and wooing divorcees and not cleaning up after his puggle when it poops outside.
The formula to the movie is pretty simple. When Peter realizes that he is male friendless and has no best man, he seeks help from his brother. He then goes on a few "man dates" which is lunch or casual drinks after work, no dinner or movies. All of these "man dates" go expectedly horrible, and peter then loses hope. Until the day of his open house and he meets Sydney Fife mooching off of the free food and trying to pick of newly divorcees. The two then set out on an adventure of jamming out to Rush music, chilling in the "Man Cave" (Fifes Garage) and just being good buds.
This is a great film to see with your friends or a date and is truly one of the most "bromantic" films of the "bromance" genre.
"I love you, man" starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel as two totally different people who form an unlikely friendship between themselves.
Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a sensitive and understanding Los Angeles Real estate agent who is about to get married, and then realizes after a comical dinner with his fiancée (Rashida Jones) and gay brother (Andy Samberg) and parents, that he has no male friends that could qualify as a best man. He would rather hangout with his fiancée and make root beer floats for her and her friends on girls night and watch Sunday night HBO programming.
Then there is Jason Segel. His character Sydney Fife comes into Peter's life very comically at one of Peter's open houses mooching off of the free sandwich buffet and looking to hook up with divorcees. Fife inspires peter to jam to Rush songs with him, and to tap into his inner rage that makes him a man. Fife lives in a small bungalow in Venice beach. He lives by his own set of rules, which includes mooching off open houses and wooing divorcees and not cleaning up after his puggle when it poops outside.
The formula to the movie is pretty simple. When Peter realizes that he is male friendless and has no best man, he seeks help from his brother. He then goes on a few "man dates" which is lunch or casual drinks after work, no dinner or movies. All of these "man dates" go expectedly horrible, and peter then loses hope. Until the day of his open house and he meets Sydney Fife mooching off of the free food and trying to pick of newly divorcees. The two then set out on an adventure of jamming out to Rush music, chilling in the "Man Cave" (Fifes Garage) and just being good buds.
This is a great film to see with your friends or a date and is truly one of the most "bromantic" films of the "bromance" genre.
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