“What are watching tonight?” “I love you, Man” “I'm flattered” “No man "‘I Love You, Man’” “OK dude whatever I love you too”.
The title itself creates hilarity. Paul Rudd (Role Models, Knocked Up) is Peter Klaven. Peter proposes to Zooey (Rashida Jones), a wedding date is set and wedding plans and celebrations begin. The only problem is Peter has no guy friends. He has been a girlfriend guy all his life. Peter overhears Zooey and her friends talking about him and discussing his lack of male friends. Peter decides he needs to start making some guy friends and find a best man for his wedding. He tries playing poker and drinking games with the guys – all of which he fails at. Peter begins going on man dates, having dinners with other men, which is awkwardly amusing. Eventually Peter meets Sydney Fife (Jason Segel – Forgetting Sarah Marshall) at Peters open home in Lou Ferrigno's house. They meet up later for dinner and drinks and eventually become “best friends forever”.
I loved this film because it's your typical chick flick format but with two guys, so every situation that would normally involve a guy and a girl is made ten times more humorous and one hundred times more awkward. The film doesn't try too hard or force-feed us the comedy. It's very natural with everyday situations which are easy to relate, like leaving a voice message for some girl you just met (in Peters case, it's a guy – Sydney) that you wish you could delete after mumbling random words and sounding like a nervous doosh. I laughed a lot, even at one stage, uncontrollably – tears and all. If there is one thing you'll always remember about ‘I Love You Man’ it's Peter saying in an Irish accent: “Slapp'n Da Bass Man, Im Slapp'n Da Bass”. Hysterical stuff.
