Previously McGregor was best in romantic comedy as an inexperienced boy: a frantic, criminal loser in A Life Less Ordinary (1997) and a slightly obsessive introvert in Little Voice (1998). This is the first time he's scored as the star of a comedy playing a confident grown-up, and he's in such high form--getting a laugh from the delivery of a single word: "Tang"--that his funniness makes him more desirable. It was a rare ability back in the day for a male lead to come across as both hetero and attractive in this kind of smarmy farce. O'Toole did it; among Americans Jim Hutton was probably the champ. McGregor not only takes the crown but makes it seem worth the winning.

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Alan Dale is author of Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.