Just Friends | 
| Director: Roger Kumble
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, Chris Marquette
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 1315
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DN10176D
UPC: 794043101762
EAN: 0794043101762
ASIN: B000E6EHE0
Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 2005
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
WHEN CHRIS, A LIKEABLE HIGH SCHOOL LOSER, FINALLY GATHERS THE COURAGE TO REVEAL HIS LOVE TO JAMIE - THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS - SHE REJECTS HIM, SAYING SHE JUST WANTS TO BE FRIENDS. SO HE TRANSFORMS HIMSELF & 10 YEARS LATER HAS A CHANCE TO RECONNECT WITH JAMIE. CAN HE ESCAPE THE CLUTCHES OF THE 'FRIEND ZONE'?
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Manic energy and an agreeable level of comic insanity turn Just Friends into the kind of brainless comedy you can enjoy as a modest guilty pleasure. If you liked director Roger Kumble's previous comedy The Sweetest Thing (and let's face it, that movie had some really funny moments), chances are you'll get at least a few solid belly-laughs from this not-so-high-concept premise, in which a formerly fat high-schooler named Chris (Ryan Reynolds) is transformed, ten years later, into a womanizing music executive with a high-profile client (Anna Faris) in the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera mold. As it zips along with some broad-stroked slapstick and snappy one-liners, the screenplay by Adam Tex Davis contrives to reunite Chris with Jamie (Amy Smart), the former cheerleader who was the great, unrequited love of Chris' miserable high-school life. By his narcissistic logic, he'll seduce her by treating her badly (i.e. she'll want what she thinks she can't have), but he gets unexpected competition in the form of a "Mr. Sensitive" type (Chris Klein, from American Pie), and it's pretty much Hollywood formula from there on, as Just Friends loses momentum without losing its basic appeal. And while Reynolds invests his character with an unexpected degree of emotional nuance, Faris (Scary Movie 3) pulls out all the stops, going deliriously over-the-top to maintain her reputation as a rising comedy starlet with a (hopefully) promising future. We're not talking rocket science here, folks... just sit back, take off your thinking cap, and have some fun. --Jeff Shannon
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 Ryan Reynolds at his best May 30, 2009
S. Chapman
I adore Ryan Reynolds, and this movie is him at his best. Great comedy. Just thinking of him in his car fumbling over words makes me giggle. Amy Smart is wonderful in this as well. Great movie!
Don't Miss The Christmas Lights Scene! April 3, 2009
divakim
When this showed up in the mail I thought it was going to be really dumb. But it was actually a pretty good movie and funny too! It actually has a story and funny characters. Ryan Reynolds stars as an ex geek once in love with his best friend from high school played by Amy Smart. After high school he becomes a big shot record exec. and returns home about 10 years later due to a microwave explosion on the company private plane caused by his ditsy rock star client. He meets up again with his high school crush and all hell ensues. Don't miss the Christmas light scene, I hadn't laughed so hard since I saw the 40 Year Old Virgin. Two thumbs up.
Just Friends - Great Movie April 3, 2009
Buffy Ledwidge (Minnetonka, MN)
This movie is one of the sweetest and funniest movies. Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart (Chris and Jamie) best friends in high school. Chris has a crush on Jamie but after a confession of love in a yearbook is read to the whole class, Chris feels like his chances with Jamie are over. Fast forward to the present day and Chris (now 200lbs lighter) is a music executive who returns to his home town with a music stars, played by Anna Faris, who in my opinion steals the movie when ever she is on the screen - the fun really begins. I love this movie for its laughs, for the sweetness. It is a great movie.
 it hits too close to home March 24, 2009
a_poet_grows_in_brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York)
i've tried watching this several times...i usually manage to get into the first 40 minutes or so of it, then i take it out...it's funny , but it's also painful to watch...how people are the whole high school experience...the whole unrequited love thing...so, i'm not gonna say much else about this film...but i always did think ryan was underratd as an actor..."waiting" is one of my personal favorites of his....
Why Do I Like This Movie? March 11, 2009
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
Ryan Reynolds reminds me of the pompous jerk back in my high school days, the kind of arrogant, shallow, superficial nobody we would give wedgies to after gym class. So any movie featuring an actor who conjures up all of these images and feelings is inherently behind the eight-ball; the film is going to have to have something else going for it to entreat me to even watch.
Such is the case with JUST FRIENDS. And I still don't know why.
Yes I do. Anna Faris and Chris Marquette. Faris, playing an airhead Hollywood diva (and a very emotionally unstable one at that), is over the top in a very good way, while Marquette, playing kid brother to Reynolds, is hysterical. When these two actors are on screen I stand up and pay attention. Plus JUST FRIENDS has more than its fair share of physical comedy, which I grudgingly admit Reynolds does well.
A former porker who is now a Hollywood big shot (Reynolds) comes back to his Jersey hometown to discover he still has romantic feelings for the love of his adolescent life (Amy Smart)--even though their relationship was always benignly platonic. Meanwhile he must pacify his out-of-control client (Faris), who is not enjoying her stay in the frigid Jersey town as Yuletide approaches. Self-denial, misunderstanding, pride, and then mayhem ensue; the result, comedic bliss. Then JUST FRIENDS wraps up its closing credits featuring Reynolds in a fat suit lip syncing a Boyz II Men ballad. Can't think of a better way to watch this guy perform.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
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