Just Friends Review

 

Just Friends Review

Celebrating 20 years of this film. 

Just Friends is a comedy film starring Ryan Reynolds before he became Deadpool. The film is about a guy named Chris who was an overweight loser in high school, and now he's a successful agent and he's lost all his weight. He comes home for the holidays with pop star Samantha James, who is a crazy woman, and she would be hashtag # MeToo today. 

In the film, he reunites with Jamie, his best friend, and wants to be more than just friends. The film is about the friend zone. Let's face it, all of us here have had a crush on a friend, and we wanted to be more than just friends. Sometimes it works, but sadly, some people do end up in the friend zone. That happened to me too, where I got friend-zoned, but eventually I met my girlfriend, and my life has been great. Chris sees this as a chance to finally admit his feelings and be with her, but things don't go well for him. Another crush of Jamie's, Dusty, wants to get with her, but he wants revenge. He's douche Dusty, I always thought he deserved to get punched at the end of the film.

The film had some funny moments, especially with Samantha; she was hilarious, and Chris's brother Mike was funny too, especially during the fights between Chris and Mike. Seriously, Ann Farris stole the show in this film like she was so funny. 

However, the film, if you look at it, betrays all four characters, Chris, Jamie, Samantha, and Dusty, as horrible people. Like, Chris was being a jerk, Jamie was playing the whole 'I can't choose' card, and she got taken advantage of without listening to the people trying to warn her. Samantha is crazy. She can't take no as an answer, and Dusty is a douchebag who pretends he's a nice guy. There are moments when I want to punch him or expose his attentions toward Jamie, and all the good things he does are all bs, or, better yet, his stammer comes back, ruining his chances at a music career. However, I feel more Chris. He gets humiliated and treated like crap by Dusty, these three kids, Jamie's dad, and when Dusty embarrasses him in the car about his mouth guard. You know what's funny? If that was Deadpool, he would have put that mouth guard in Dusty's mouth and broken his fingers, ruining his music career.  

However, in the film, when Chris tries to warn Jamie about Dusty's real intentions to get with her for revenge, all because he's still bitter about the friend zone, unlike Chris, it doesn't go well at first, but Jamie sees Dusty for the jerk he is at the bar, and she and Chris get into a fight, and Chris leaves. 

When Chris returns, he finds Samantha, who wants to get with him, but he doesn't want that because he loves Jamie, and tells her he can't force someone to like them; you have to wait and see. Chris returns to Jersey, where he apologizes to Jamie and tells her how he really feels. The two of them kiss, and it's a good scene, but also Chris makes a good point in the end that if the person you like doesn't like you that way, it's best to move on or accept they will only be your friend; it's just better to have them in your lives if not at all. 

 I also hated how those three kids in the movie hated on Chris and called him a suckster, and I'm like, yeah, he's Deadpool now. I also thought it was karma when Jamie's dad, who had been a jerk to Chris his whole life, got his christmas decorations destroyed by Samantha when she accidentally drove away with the car having a christmas wire stuck to it, and one of the kids who called Chris a suckster got friend-zoned by the girl of his friend group. Too bad we didn't get that for Dusty in the end.

Now, Just Friends is a fun Christmas film, and we all know what it is like to be in the Friend Zone, but there is always a bigger fish in the sea. The cast of the film all did a great job and that bed room scene with Chris and Jamie with inner monologue was proof that Ryan Reynolds was born to play Deadpool. 

This film is fun, and the cast is excellent. I give this film a 6 out of 10. 

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