Title: Is this supposed to be funny?
Product review: Hollywood's sense of humor has really gone down the toilet in recent years, but How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is a new low. For whatever reason, the movie just doesn't doesn't get the humor right. It's not that the jokes themselves are horrible, but they're not great. Even worse is the execution. The jokes fall flat. I think it's partly Simon Pegg. He's not a horrible actor, but isn't funny. The final result comes across as amateurish.I gave the film 2 stars rather than just one for two reasons. First, Megan Fox actually adds some real humor - and is smoking hot! She plays the ditzy American actress perfectly. Second, there is one scene when the dog dies that is hilarious. It's not funny because the dog dies, but rather because it plays on conventional tropes in American comedy in which somebody throws a fall out the window and the dog jumps after it. I did laugh out loud at that one. Unfortunately, that's the only time I laughed out loud.
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