My Man Is a Loser

Single swinger John Stamos tries to help childhood friends Michael Rappaport and Brian Callan with blocked marriage issues and business deals.

It's one of those romantic comedies which is neither particularly romantic nor funny, alas. The timing of everyone involved, including Sean Young, Tika Sumpter and Heidi Armbruster, is snappy. Were there anything particularly funny in the script by writer-director Mike Young, this would be pretty good. There is, alas, such a low-key, sad-sack attitude in the characters and situations, that nothing works very well.

A great romantic comedy for married couples and those thinking about getting married. Movie will both having you laughing and looking back and forth at your significant other as you recognize different parts of your relationship that you will 100% relate to. For guys out there...expect a few elbows in the ribs from your wife.

The cast is great and there are many cameos from familiar faces. Movie doesn't take itself too seriously and there is a story line to go along with all the laughs.

Lots of great comedy, great performances and a story you will enjoy. You will leave with a smile and might just have a few things to examine in your own relationship.

Only got 40 minutes in but had to turn it off. I think it the writing is terrible, the jokes don't hit the mark and are repetitive. I really like the male leads but I think the casting for the rest of the movie is awful.

The story starts with some promising comments on the fate of husbands at the hands of their wives, but it endlessly repeats the old Jewish joke on this issue (that husbands -- even those who do well at work -- are brow-beaten at home. You know the kind of thing: 'Why do all Jewish husbands die before their wives? Answer: Because they want to.'). And as the plot develops this theme becomes increasingly tiresome, boring and, indeed, nasty, until you begin to yawn when each predictable scene follows another: nagging wife, misunderstood husband; men are from Mars, women from Venus; etc. etc. And then the soppy ending you saw coming after the first five minutes. I'd give it 'One' star but maybe it deserves three if only for some of the acting and editing.

Saw this opening night on demand because I was excited to see a high school friend in it. Small but important part, and she was hilarious and totally nailed it.

That aside, I appreciated a lot about this movie. The dialogue generally and the banter between the guys in particular was spot on. There were some killer moments in the script. I also really appreciated the coming together message. This wasn't about guys doing stupid things that rightfully should lead to a break up with their wives; no, it was clear throughout that there was a genuine interest in saving the marriages, and that's not entirely common these days. It's an important message in a culture that often glorifies greener grass, and in reality that's rarely true... unless you're one of the few people who have legitimately dead metaphorical grass.

That said, there were some quirks about this film that took it down a notch or two for me, and it was mostly in either the script or the editing - hard to know which for sure. While the dialogue was fantastic, the scenes felt a little jumbled together. Almost every scene was critical to the story line, but it cut fairly abruptly enough times that I noticeably felt there should have been a smoother transition. It could have been more graceful. There were two scenes in particular that were totally out of place and while they shook me out of lumping this with every other romcom, I'm not sure they should have been in there in the end.

Overall, can't rate it a 10, but I will buy this for the underlying message and for a decent handful of good laughs.