Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Lawrence Sher
Costume Designer
Leesa Evans
Production Designer
Andrew Laws
Reviews
Entertainment Weekly - By far the best Judd Apatow comedy that Judd Apatow had nothing at all to do with, Sunday Mail - A lightweight, silly comedy with plenty of laughs and a very pleasant watch, Hollywood Reporter - The slight Rudd and the gangly Segel strike the right physical contrast for comedy. And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob, Empire - An amusing scenario gets a big boost from winning performances all round..., Daily Telegraph - All praise to Hamburg, for making a modest meal of frat-comedy leftovers into something just delightful, Daily Express - I LOVE YOU, MAN manages to offset some of its raunchy dialogue and bad taste antics with good humour and charm, ViewLondon - I LOVE YOU, MAN is a sharply written, brilliantly acted and emotionally engaging film that is easily the funniest comedy of the year so far, Daily Mirror - A buddy movie and a gross-out comedy rolled into one, it's an enjoyable and clever flick, Channel 4 Film - Making the previously implicit, very explicit - and funny, Time Magazine - The picture is worth catching for the delicate and toxic nuances of Rudd's performance, Total Film - There's continuous chuckles rather than a barrel of belly-laughs in this warm winner. A sweet, slightly shambling buddy-movie, Rolling Stone - 'Sweet, sweet hangin', says Peter of knowing Sydney. The same goes for the movie, The Times - In the coarse but compassionate style patented by Judd Apatow, the film is funny about the uncertain etiquette of incipient male friendships, Time Out - Rudd displays a rare comic sophistication and matinee charm... holding the entire edifice together by sheer force of personality, News Of The World - Brilliant... utterly hilarious!, Chicago Sun-Times - Above all, just plain funny. It's funny with some dumb physical humor, yes, and some gross-out jokes apparently necessary to all buddy movies, but also funny in observations, dialogue, physical behavior and Sydney Fife's observations as a people-watcher, New York Times - A fitfully funny comedy
Consumer Advice
Contains strong language and sex references
Hearing Impaired
English
Additional Information
After years of stealing scenes from the leading men in such movies as KNOCKED UP and THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, Paul Rudd finally headlines a star vehicle of his own. Unlike those Judd Apatow productions, it's John Hamburg (ALONG CAME POLLY) who directs I LOVE YOU, MAN, albeit with many of the touchstones of Apatow's highly successful freaks-and-geeks-with-heart aesthetic. In other words, this is not an Apatow film, but, with the male capacity for--and simultaneous inability to express--fraternal love as its core comic conceit (and emotional centrepiece), it may as well be.
Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a real estate agent with a blossoming career and an imminent marriage to Zooey (THE OFFICE's Rashida Jones)--basically, he's lucky in all things except male bonding. The narrative arc centres on his quest for platonic man-love--as opposed to, say, finding the girl of his dreams--and follows the boilerplate dictates of a standard rom-com with a subversive wink. In this case, boy meets boy, boys bond over their common love of Rush and Andre the Giant, boys break up and make up, etc. Rudd and co-star Jason Segel (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL), a fellow Apatow alum who plays Sydney Fife, the Type B object of Klaven's affection, imbue their roles with winning charisma and elevate the plot with real and nuanced chemistry. With a whip-smart pace, the film continually tills fresh comic ground as Hamburg finds punctuation points in every scene and never lets a gag overstay its welcome. While the supporting cast features many memorable turns by the likes of Jon Favreau, Jaime Pressly, and Andy Samberg, I LOVE YOU, MAN ultimately belongs to Rudd, who approaches insecurity and social awkwardness with the same dead-eye marksmanship that Peter Sellers did for slapstick.
Movie/TV Title
I Love You, Man
Composer
Theodore Shapiro
Executive Producer
Bill Johnson, Andrew Haas, Jeffrey Clifford, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Screenwriter
Larry Levin, John Hamburg
Editor
William Kerr
