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My review of How to lose friends and alienate people.

How to lose friends is a film starring Simon Pegg, it is a film that could have been so much more than it is. Essentially the film is very similar to The Devil wears prada, which in this case is not a bad thing. Simon Pegg is hilarious as always, Jeff Bridges shows up once in a while to remind people he is still as awesome as he always is, and Kirsten Dunst is the love interest again. There are many moments that made me smile because they make fun of the media that obsesses with celebrity, these are by far the best parts of the film. There is also the love plot involving the consistantly mediocre Megan Fox playing...well herself pretty much. She doesnt really do much and is pretty much just fun to look at.

There are also a couple of gross out moments involving genitals and one involving pig urine. The love plot with Kirsten Dunst is predictable, at first she hates Pegg's character because he is anti everything she thinks she stands for, she then realizes that she hates what she stands for and that she really love him, he realizes that he is wasting time with Megan fox who realizes that she nothing to realize. This isn't a spoiler by the way, it is very predicatble. Its like telling someone the ending of a romance film with Richard Gere or John Cusack by saying he gets the girl in the end, if they think that you spoiled the film then they are wrong. This romance cliche is not bad, but it does make the more clever moments of the film more sparse and it goes on. it isnt a bad film really, but I wish it stuck with the more clever moments instead of the usual slapstick and gross outs.

Overall I give it a 7.5