It's impossible to talk about I love you, man without talking about the entire Judd Apatow oeuvre (even though this film was not written or directed by Apatow), an oeuvre that has escaped from the prison of television only to explode across the cinema, a place where asshole television executives (Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared) cannot cancel his quirky brand of humor. I love you, man seems like a sequel/spinoff to Role Models (another movie not written or directed by Aptow), but this time Paul Rudd (who was in lots of Aptow movies) is teamed up with Jason Siegel (author of Dracula's Lament, ie: Dracula the Musical from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, also not an Aptow movie, but Siegel is a primary Aptow actor appearing in both of the above mentioned TV shows, as well as many of the movies) instead of Stifler (American Pie, not an aptow film) and instead of worshiping the music of Kiss, this movie worships Rush. Now I was going to talk about the plot here, but let's set that whole movie business aside and talk about John Favreau's role in this film. Never before have I seen an actor (using the word lightly to describe the director of Swingers) throw aside screen time in such a nonchalant way and yet steal every scene he's in. Favreau's character doesn't like the main character (Paul Rudd) and does everything he can to avoid him, thus avoiding the camera, thus avoiding the movie. He refuses conversations with him, he cuts him off midsentence, he walks off screen and he gets projectile vomited on. He is the jock to the film's geek. But his relationship with his wife still haunts me to this day. He's married to Joy (from my name is earl, r.i.p.) and they fight constantly. But they settle each fight with a whispered sex negotiation, the juiciest of which was where he requested she dress up a cheerleader to settle the fight and make it up with him. She quickly agreed. What a fantastic character. As the fiancée character says when leaving their house, "It's horrible, they fight all the time and then have really loud make-up sex." I love you, man is worth seeing if you like Aptow-style comedies, which is really the only kind of comedy they make anymore, unless you count remakes or those movies that mock other movies (badly). So you have to see I love you, man if you want to laugh. There's really no other game in town.