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Movie Overview
Cast
• Anna Faris
• Ryan Reynolds
• Amy Smart
Director
• Roger Kumble
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for sexual content including some dialogue
Just Friends (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten
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B+
"Here's a film for all of us 'losers,' and it gets the job done."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

B-
"Just Friends is a funny production; it's just a disappointment that Kumble couldn't let the audience discover any moment of the film on their own."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

"Anna Faris again demonstrates that she is fearless when it comes to physical stunts and comedic excesses."  Common Sense  Cynthia Fuchs

C-
"Just bad."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2/4
"There are funny moments--a few even hilarious--but the majority of jokes try so hard and go so far over-the-top that they splat on the ground before takeoff."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

B-
"Despite its flaws, the movie comes out ahead, more funny than not."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

C-
"A succession of frantic, and frequently brutal, slapstick episodes...raucous but largely mirthless."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/4
"After watching a movie like Just Friends, I hurry home from the theater and take a shower so I can wash away the stink of the experience."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

"You certainly don't need to be smart to laugh at Just Friends, but smart people don't have to be embarrassed when they do. Unless they laugh as loudly as I did."  Pajiba  Jeremy C. Fox

3/5
"."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

1.5/4
"Even a bracing mean streak can't save this gross-out romantic comedy from its lazy mess of a script, a string of slapstick gags that demand arbitrary, stupid and out-of-character behavior from all concerned."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

C
"Just Friends is sweet and mostly pleasant to pass the time with...but there's little justification to enter into a serious engagement with it."  Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema  Mark Pfeiffer

3/5
"Despite the fact that we are watching Reynolds do the same schtick yet again, director Roger Kumble never lets him outlast a joke or take a gimmick too far."  Film Threat  Michael Ferraro

D
"Much humiliation and mayhem, all of it either teeth-grindingly tedious, heart-sinkingly crude, or just plain boring, often all three at once."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

C
"Painfully light on laughs."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

2/5
"Um bom conceito (e não estou dizendo que este é bom) só funciona quando amparado por um bom roteiro. E definitivamente não é isto que ocorre aqui."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

1.5/4
"Faris's parody of pop culture's vapid idols transcends the film's own brainless romantic plot."  Slant Magazine  Paul Schrodt

2.5/5
"Maybe in this case, Chris and Jamie just being friends wasn't such a bad idea."  Filmcritic.com  Pete Croatto

3/5
"Although it's often hilarious, it's far too hyperactive to actually connect with us."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

3.5/5
"I walked into the thing expecting a lifeless mass of mirthless torture, and I walked away pleasantly surprised by the ensemble cast's consistent chuckle delivery."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

2/4
"Unless you're dying to see a pale imitation of the Farrelly brothers' brand of broad romantic comedy, just say no to Just Friends."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight

7/10
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OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten
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