How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Reviews

The 2008 comedy film How to Lose Friends and Alienate People received mixed reviews upon its release. Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave the film three out of five stars, praising actor Simon Pegg's "funny" performance.¹

Critic Roger Ebert called How to Lose... "possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17." Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four.²

Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum graded the film a "C+" in her review, which panned the "tame" adaptation of Toby Young's "much pricklier" memoir. Variety critic Todd McCarthy noted that most of the actors played "caricatures" in a "strained" story. The forced romance between Pegg's character and Kirsten Dunst's was a "turn-off" for McCarthy in particular.^{3 4}

More reviews will be listed here as they become available.

Fast Facts

1. Release date: October 3, 2008⁵
2. Director: Robert B. Weide⁵
3. Producers: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen⁵
4. Screenwriter: Peter Straughan⁵
5. Based on the memoir by Toby Young⁵
6. Run time: 110 minutes
7. Tagline: "Brace yourselves, America"

Synopsis

British journalist Sydney Young (Simon Pegg) moves from a shabby flat in England to New York City after he is hired to work for the popular magazine Sharps. He manages to antagonize, humiliate or anger just about everyone that he meets.

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