2006 - Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 43 min
Director: Greg Coolidge
Starring: Jessica Simpson, Dane Cook, Dax Shepard, Andy Dick, Harland Williams, Efren Ramirez
Hey, it's Pedro (from Napoleon Dynamite)! And he plays almost the same character! And Jessica Simpson makes a worthy attempt at acting, but falls flat. Shocking.
So Dane Cook is the lazy guy who's had a tough life. Dax Shepard is the douche-bag who is happy to be a 17-month employee of the month at a wholesale superstore (like BJ's). Both of them are kinda losers, but only Dane Cook is aware of it. And he wants to date Jessica Simpson, who is strangely oblivious to Dax Shepard's douchey-ness.
What bothers me the most about this movie is the way Dane Cook's friends turn on him so suddenly. "Friends." He's trying to become a better man - breaking his butt, actually - and they're like, "Oh, you're too cool for us now! What about us?!" How about a little support, guys? In the end, they come through for him. But their sudden anger towards him seems forced, since I don't think his actions warrant it.
In the end, though, this is just a fun, albeit predictable, movie with a pretty, straight-forward premise. Dane vs Dax is enjoyable to watch, since both seem to buy into their characters completely. It works.
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