This movie had some good ideas, but never gelled.

| Nov 6, 2019

Despite a rich premise, Just Friends ultimately fails to live up to its early potential, settling into broad comedy that shortchanges the romantic possibilities.

| Jul 23, 2008

Funnier than it has any right to be, thanks to Reynolds’ charisma and Faris's bubbleheaded blonde.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Painfully light on laughs.

| Original Score: C | Mar 20, 2006

There are other flaws, but for the most part, Cruel Intentions helmer Roger Kumble delivers an enjoyably anarchic romp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2005

The film feels just a few degrees left of sanity.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Playing the incredibly spoiled (and remarkably talentless) Jessica Simpson meets Britney Spears meets Bimbo Barbie rock star Samantha James, Faris brings so much gleefully archaic fireball charisma to her portrayal I couldn't take my eyes off of her.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 6, 2005

Just Friends is just stupid.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2005

Just Friends is part Farrelly Brothers and part Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, all wrapped together to deliver gross-out gags in bizarrely random and rapid-fire fashion, with zero intent to develop sustainable plot or character.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 28, 2005

Just Friends hangs its crude, clobbering sense of humor on a dubious theory.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2005

... while the ending might be a foregone conclusion, getting there involves just enough slapstick manful idiocy to keep the humor moving at a clip.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 28, 2005

A barbed romantic comedy with a distinct debt to the Farrelly brothers' gross-out-plus-sentimentality formula, Just Friends is a welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 28, 2005

[D]espite revisiting every romantic comedy archetype ever conceived, Just Friends still manages to entertain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2005

Faris's parody of pop culture's vapid idols transcends the film's own brainless romantic plot.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 25, 2005

In all, it's not too bad and it's not too long, and any movie that sets Santa on fire is okay by me.

| Nov 23, 2005

After peaking with the unsurpassable glories of 2003's Bad Santa, the humbug holiday genre may be getting run into the ground.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2005

An uneven black comedy that fails to sell its coldhearted, central premise, Just Friends finds actor Ryan Reynolds in his most tedious turn yet as a theoretically likable reprobate.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 23, 2005

It's a thoroughly enjoyable three- or four-gimmick comedy, highlighted by a whorish dimwit pop star played by Anna Faris.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2005

Thanks to director Roger Kumble's breathless pacing, Just Friends manages to outrun most of its flaws.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2005