I gotta watch this movie, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, twice in order to understand the story line and fully get the jokes. The first was sort of skim through and I didn’t really pay attention to it. So it could be me whom is slow in catching the story. Anyway, just when I thought this would be a boring comedy movie, it turns up to have an almost equal share between the comedy part and the romantic part. Great! Comedy alone would bore me to death.
This 2008 comedy romantic movie is based on the true story of Toby Young – a British writer whom struggling for 5 years to make it in the United States. Toby Young’s character is played by Simon Pegg with Kirsten Dunst as the colleague and the hottie Megan Fox, whom looks gorgeous as always (does it has anything to do with best diet supplements?), as the raising star.
Synopsis / plot of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People:
Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is an unknown but aspiring celebrity journalist who will do anything just so he can enter into the celebrities party. He moves to New York city after being hired by the well-known Sharps Magazine. Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), Sharps magazine’s editor, found Sidney after he made into the newspaper due to a shameful incident at the celebrities party.
Sidney begins his journey from being at the 1st level to 7th level. He has a complicated relationship with the colleague, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst) whom is secretly dating Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston) – already married to Clayton’s daughter. There is also Sophie Maes (Megan Fox), the rising star who promised to have sex with Sidney if she wins the award.
One of the stupidest thing that Sidney does is when he goes into Maddox’s office, wanting to play with Sophie’s dog but accidentally kill the dog. Poor dog.
Watch How to Lose Friends & Alienate People with your friends and have a good laugh.
