How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

  • 2008


MOVIE IS economic disastrous satirical entertaining antisocial
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37 % Rotten
$ 19 Million
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Positive Reviews 31
Negative reviews 31
Average Rating 2.4/5
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1.5
How To Lose Friends And Alienate Peoples title proves prophetic, only this time the people being alienated are the suckers in the paying audience. Av Club
2.8
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People chronicles the short but sour New York career of the British journalist, who arrived for a stint at Vanity Fair .. EW
3.5
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isnt rated NC 17. Rogerebert
3.0
But it also pulls too many punches and ultimately feels a bit timid; it doesnt skewer celebrity and celeb mag culture as sharply as it could have (Sid .. Common Sense Media
2.5
How to Lose is toothless, substituting broad humor and a romance for the needed cynicism. Time Out
1.7
Pegg turns the pratfall o meter up to 11 and, admittedly, makes the best of a bad situation, but his deadpan comic wiles arent sufficiently served by .. Time Out
1.5
What was good enough for the printed page a comic chronicle of our obsession with the shallow has been turned into the object of its own derision.
1.5
Unfortunately the film version of Youngs book is more slapstick than skewer, more loving portrait than leveling blow, more Billy Crystal at Katzs than ..
1.9
But the cohesion isnt there, and it ends up feeling like work for hire for everyone involved. Paste Magazine
2.5
Many critics will make some quip on the films title doing precisely that to the audience looking for a little inside baseball, but theres so much gene .. E Film Critic
1.5
It has been pared down to a light comedy with a little romance on the side, and works competently in these terms. Telegraph
3.8
Despite its title, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People doesnt impart a whole lot of wisdom. San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Not as smart or as satirical as you might hope, but an enjoyable and often funny look at a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
1.0
How to Lose Friends wants to see itself as a champion of humanity over glitz and a puckish puncturer of egos. But while culled from Youngs disastrous .. Ny Daily News
1.9
Pomposity and foolishness abound, but the laughs are few and far between. Philly
3.1
Its not altogether unpalatable, but that doesnt present it from being a mess. ReelViews
3.8
Here, hes more concerned with nailing the laughs than building a character, but perhaps thats for the better since Simon, after all, is supposed to lo .. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
She tosses him meaningless busywork, but Young insists hes there to shake things up.
2.5
But instead of skewering self important stars and vapid journalists, Friends gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor. Usa Today
1.9
Ones subsequent attempts at overlooking the movies deficiencies are seriously stymied, with the end result a hopelessly uneven effort thats generally .. Reel Film Reviews
2.8
I admire Peggs comic abilities, and he seems to have given it his earnest best here. Hes just miscast and the story fizzles out halfway through anyway .. Eric Ds Nider
2.0
This Brit on the make comedy would be insufferable without the leavening presence of Simon Pegg. Independent
2.0
But Straughans slackly written script doesnt build anything on this. Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Regardless of your feelings towards the source material, this is an enjoyable romcom with a decent script, several laugh out loud gags and a host of t .. View London
1.3
Any movie in which the hero accidentally kills a Chihuahua cant be a total loss, but How To Lose Friends & Alienate People comes pretty darned close. New York Post
1.5
Toothless, fact based comedy about a socially inept entertainment journalist and his misadventures at a Vanity Fair like magazine. Film Journal International ..
1.9
Of course, thats saying a lot, because theres very little in the painfully unfunny How to Lose Friends that isnt irritating. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
The world of New York magazines is ripe for satire. How to Lose Friends looks at first as if its going to give us a peek inside that world, but it eve .. Az Central
3.0
Sidneys idea is that hes a firebrand journalist, out to tell the uncomfortable truth about the celebrities hes to write about. Mountain X
1.9
This isnt so terrible in and of itself Jack Black can sometimes make a slug like this work but it doesnt suit Pegg at all. Toronto Star
3.0
Its silly but mostly entertaining, and Peggs open, expressive face is always funny. Perhaps without entirely realising it, the movie provides a throug .. Guardian
2.0
The hilariously inappropriate romcom template imposed on Youngs book is The Apartment. Daily Mail
1.5
Like the characters it portrays, How to Lose Friends eventually becomes the very thing it mocks, its delectable naughtiness sacrificed to sentiment an .. Salon
1.5
We immediately sense theres a degree of self loathing about Sidney, who takes on an alias when sweet talking a girl.
1.2
Because honestly, reading about your bizarro feud with Ricky Gervais is more entertaining than this. Movies
2.5
If one were to search for the instructions stated in the films title (of how to lose ones friends and alienate people), one wouldnt get very far. Sidn .. Flim Threet
3.8
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is an ungainly title, difficult to remember and about as attractive as what it infers. The Movie Boy
2.0
Fluffed satirical targets, a shortfall of required rom com charm, cheap gags and a thoroughly unpleasant hero situate How To Lose Friends several floo .. Total Film
2.8
Latest Entertainment Videos The strong cast cannot save an adaptation that is at odds with the spirit of its source material. Seattle Pi
2.5
The films stalls, flatlines even, and as much as I appreciated and adored the opening sections once this takes its disastrous detour no amount of CPR .. Movie Freak
2.8
Never tries to go too far below the surface, instead taking a snide and cynical approach to the meet cute romantic comedy, filling it with all of the ..
2.8
Instead, it devolves too often into slapstick shenanigans and comedy of embarrassment. Oregon Live
1.5
No bad thing, really, but a fair distance from the barbed humour of Youngs book. Film Ink
3.0
Weide bypasses the impulse to push the film at the usual breakneck comedy movie pace, allowing the conflicts to build slowly and with more thought tha .. The Age
4.0
And even if youre not a carrot topped media type, I reckon youll still love every minute of this fish out of water comedy. Mirror
1.5
I feel Ive seen a bit too much of Pegg in some not very funny films recently, but his fish out of water works well. Abc
1.5
They should have called it Carry on Columnist and incorporated digitised cameos from the late Sid James and Kenneth Williams. Come to think of it, tha .. Ft
3.1
A scandal sheet satire that wears its antisocial tendencies on its sleeve, the movie takes aim at the inane gossip rag media world. But more often tha .. News Blaze
3.0
Too often, though, director Robert Weide resorts to the horribly hackneyed gag. The Sun
2.0
too flat to be satire, too earnest to be a farce, and too obvious to be entertaining Killer Movie Reviews
2.5
Its a silly film halfheartedly imagined, worth a sit only to watch Simon Pegg run amuck inside another movie that doesnt deserve him. Brian Or Ndorf
3.0
He just has a work ethic that doesnt care what other people think. Hollywood Chicago
3.0
Screenwriter Peter Straughen has converted the original parade of pitfalls and self mythology into a serviceable rom com and hes also managed to work .. Sky
3.0
The film has none of the self lacerating pain of Youngs book, but as an exercise in humiliation it is second to none. Entertainment Times Online ..
2.0
What we have is a comedy thats not that great, a romance thats not that convincing and a movie thats sadly not that special. The Shiz Nit
3.0
This comedy is gunning to do for glossy magazines what The Devil Wears Prada did for fashion and ends up shooting itself in the hand stitched loafers. Metro
1.5
Pegg has some good obnoxious moments, but hes only a few movies away from becoming Dudley Moore. Chicago Reader
3.0
Its not a very faithful adaptation, it doesnt make great use of Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst has still got those teeth, but theres little here thats o .. Film4
2.5
One has to wonder why director Robert B. Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm) chose to artificially pump up the comedy rather than find it naturally in the si .. Aisle Seat
2.5
The humor is based on a transsexual and killing a dog. Thats not enough, especially when there was all of Celebridum to make fun of. The Scorecard Review
1.5
His silly dancing moves are funny only because hes so committed to them. Can Mag
4.5
Why cant you stop seeking what you know you should hate Its a complicated thing which, in this adaptation, is sometimes reduced to pure twit ishness. Spectator
3.0
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People proves to be a sharp edged weapon against our obsession with celebrity culture that never seems to take aim at a .. Movies Ign
3.8
Toby Youngs memoir makes an engaging transition to the screen, thanks to a lively adaptation that embellishes greatly on Youngs story but preserves th .. Miami
2.5
A story about how the ins and outs of the entertainment world change people for the worse, People has no unique insight on that world or thoughts on t .. Metromix.com
4.5
The flick is filled with a ton of laughs, a ton of heart and Simon Pegg is funnier than ever. HILARIOUS!
3.5
But if youre in the mood for a thought provoking drama to accompany world economic collapse, the movie of choice is Blindness.This elegant disaster mo .. Ma Cleans
1.9
When a movie features two spit takes in the first 15 minutes, its a pretty clear indicator of which way the rest of the farce will go. Seattle Times
1.9
British funny man Simon Pegg continues his downwards spiral with this lame, Devil Wears Prada styled comedy. Imdb
2.5
The tone is never quite mean enough or never quite nice enough and the film never catches its stride.
2.5
While Pegg has a good stab at lending the film some of his trademark knockabout charm, the film is as artless and difficult to warm to as its leading .. Courier Mail (Australia)
3.5
Im told that several of these characters are easily recognisable to insiders, but outside that small coterie theres still a great deal to enjoy about .. The Australian
2.5
Hollywood took a mediocre script and hired Pegg, relying on his charms alone to carry the picture. Sorry, it just doesnt work that way. The movie has ..
1.3
The jerky hero suddenly changes into a cool, well dressed guy. Then poof! hes an idiot. Then back to cool. Presenting the Peek a Boo School of Writing .. Kimberly Gadette
0.5
Just because you are supposed to laugh doesnt mean you are going to laugh.



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