Just Friends (2005) Critic Reviews

There are bad movies and annoying movies, and this one contains elements of both.Read the full review

A surprisingly shrewd and energetic romantic comedy.Read the full review

This is a standard-issue gross Hollywood knockabout comedy in which slapstick antics have been piled up with a steam shovel and driven home with a sledgehammer. Reynolds and Smart are game and even dimensional, but all others are stuck playing tiresome, obnoxious characters.Read the full review

Just lousy.Read the full review

Argues on behalf of the Darwinian theory that all of life imitates high school...But the argument is only halfhearted. Just Friends is much more interested in - and hilarious about - the small nostalgias of suburbia.Read the full review

Still, there are some funny surprises, from skewering overdone Christmas decorations to casting Chris Klein as a creep.Read the full review

The tantalizing promise of 90 heavenly minutes of Ryan Reynolds in a roly-poly fatsuit and unconvincing tubby make-up (which make him look like a younger version of Martin Short's Jiminy Glick) proves a case of the old bait-and-switch.Read the full review

A thoroughly enjoyable three-or four-gimmick comedy.Read the full review

There is not a spark of chemistry between Chris and Jamie, although the plot clearly requires them to fall in love. There is so much chemistry involved with the Anna Faris character, however, that she can set off multiple chain reactions with herself, if you see what I mean.Read the full review