What do you get when you mix Paul Rudd (recently in Role Models, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Knocked Up) and Jason Segel (from How I Met Your Mother and Forgetting Sarah Marshall)? Fun times. Combine that with a great script about a budding bromance and you have a comedy with some serious hilarity.

Rudd's Peter Klaven has become engaged to his girlfriend of eight months, Zooey (Rashida Jones). And, during the wedding planning it's become very apparent that Peter has no guy friends to speak of, whereas Zooey has several (very eclectic) girl friends she hangs out with regularly.

To fix the balance between a lack of groomsmen and many bridesmaids, Peter seeks the help of his gay brother Robbie (Andy Samberg), who works at a gym. Big brother gets tips on how to go on man dates with likely subjects. This process of course is not without its pitfalls, including a gross projectile vomiting incident with Barry (Jon Favreau) after a poker game.

After a few such incidents, Peter loses hope in finding someone to be his best man and bumps into Segel's Sydney Fife  — this great, honest guy enjoying being single in California. Peter strikes up a friendship with Sydney and we get some wonderful "guy" moments interspersed with some odd moments here and there.

The fact that Peter gets into this bromance so deeply begins to trouble fiancee Zooey, but it all gets sorted out by the end.

Beyond the main actors, I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by Lou Ferrigno's scenes. He steals the show in a few places (the Ferrigno/Segel sleeper hold incident comes to mind) and adds a celebrity dimension to the real estate market Peter works in.

Though I know my wife enjoyed the movie too, I felt that the characters definitely come from a guy's perspective — especially Zooey's female friends, who are all caricatures. One is self-centered and wondering why she can't find a nice guy, and another (played by Jaime Pressly) fits the profile of a wife constantly fighting with her husband and then having great make-up sex afterwards. Though I know a few folks with interesting personality clashes in their relationships, these ladies take the cake.

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