I saw the movie Just Friends the other weekend.
I absolutely LOVED it!
Apparently it was more of a chick flick than the boys expected, but everyone still enjoyed it.
The story is about Chris (Ryan Reynolds), a boy who’s in love with his best friend Jamie (Amy Smart) throughout his younger years.
Because of his looks and all around nerdiness, he doesn’t stand a chance with her.
She considers him her best friend but he wants more.
After Chris is humiliated in front of everyone at a graduation party, he vanishes from his hometown in
New Jersey.
Years later, we catch up with Chris who is now a wealthy, charming, successful and extremely hot
L.A. businessman.
He works in entertainment and to avoid being fired, he has to get Samantha Jones (Anna Faris) to sign with his record label.
Samantha Jones is an INSANE pop star who was apparently modeled after
Paris Hilton… but I don’t really see the
Paris in the characters personality.
Whatever.
Anyways, he ends up in his hometown because of a problem on the private jet bringing Samantha and Chris to Paris Hilton’s Christmas party.
The movie tells the story of Chris, now a big-shot Hollywood guy, trying to get Jamie, who still remains the girl of his dreams.
Because of the effect Jamie has on
him, Chris falls back into the clumsy and awkward stages of his teenage years.
Anna Faris’ character is hysterical, and Chris has to deal with her thinking they are in love throughout the movie.
I would definitely recommend going see it. The guys thought that the movie was going to be more of a Van Wilder, National Lampoon type movie, but it wasn’t. Definitely more of a chick flick. It was definitely a good Christmas comedy.
~ Liz
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