Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
United Kingdom · 2008
Rated R · 1h 50m
Director Robert B. Weide
Starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Megan Fox
Genre Comedy, Romance, Drama
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A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White
The result is an initially hilarious picture that grows perplexingly trite as screenwriter Peter Straughan transforms Young's sly observations into assembly-line pap.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Best in show is the divine Gillian Anderson as a powerful celebrity publicist, editing the image of her clients in much the same way this adaptation tames Young's much pricklier book.
People's title proves prophetic, only this time the people being alienated are the suckers in the paying audience.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he's swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
An embarassingly unfunny, stumblebum adaptation of Toby Young's memoir.
Cleverly titled but noxious British comedy.
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