I enjoyed the first half of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People". There are a fair share of laughs, and it seemed to have some promise as a lighthearted jab at Hollywood stereotypes and America's celebrity obsession. Simon Pegg has a natural charm that comes across in everything he does with no exception here, and Kirsten Dunst delivers some great one liners. The rest of the characters are colorfully painted and well cast. Then, I started to worry it was turning into, my nightmare... a romantic comedy. Noooooooo!! It did. Gone were the sassy lines and comical characters (and Megan Fox's nipples). What remained was the second half of any eye stabbing romantic comedy out there-one dimensional caricatures and no fail predictability. The movie is entertaining enough, but it ultimately turns into the very thing it started out to ridicule.
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