HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLESounds like a movie about Hollywood! Another book-to-screen movie based on an obnoxious man, Toby Young, the author of the book and the nothing in the movie as he was banned from the set for annoying everyone. This story is about a writer who was catapulted from being a big fish in a little pond, to being roadkill on the streets of New York. He is taken under the wing of Clayton Harding, "the dude" (Jeff Bridges) who in a powerful and ruthless publishing tycoon. After a rocky start, Sydney Young (Simon Pegg) gets himself together in full view of co-worker, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). (wink wink) Bridges work on this film is fantastic. He is intimidating and very much the business man made of steel. Almost everyone I know loved Run, Fat Boy, Run with Pegg (and Thandie Newton who started this film off and also co-starred with Pegg in Fat Boy. It was a fun, upbeat film, but no even close to Fat Boy. Pegg is a comedian. His acting skills are sharp, but comedy is where he is best served. This was not his shining moment. It was an entertaining piece, but was not edited down enough to make it tight and fast paced.
Bite: Slow pace does not a comedy make, but generally entertaining.
