While certainly not as terrible as many critics made it out to be, last year's Dane Cook/Kate Hudson romantic comedy My Best Friend's Girl will be more likely remembered for the blog stir it caused rather than for its jokes. While Dane Cook was busy praising it as his funniest film yet (a true statement, being that his other comedies have thus far been nigh unwatchable), costar Alec Baldwin was trashing it on his own blog, calling it "...not very good at all." He was right. It's not very good. But it's not awful, due in part to Baldwin's work in the film.

Cook plays a weird kind of romantic wingman. He goes out on dates with girls who have just dumped their boyfriends, and then he behaves so badly that the girls want to get back together with their old beaus. But when his best friend (and roommate) asks him for his services, the unexpected (so to speak) happens. He falls for the girl -- and she falls for him. The remainder of the film is a predictable mess with a few clever sequences and a number of over-the-top jokes that are cut loose and allowed to shine in this unrated release. But nothing is quite good enough to make it any more than a shrug-inducing film that has as much to actively like as to dislike.

Sadly, the special features on this disc are even worse than most of the film. While on paper it looks like a lot of material, in truth all of the extras are simply themed featurettes culled from single session talking-head EPK interviews in which all of the actors were asked the same questions. There's a question on proms, one on dating, one on what it was like to film in Boston... One featurette that promises to explain Alec Baldwin's bizarrely sexist woman rating system (in the film) is instead just a series of questions put to the cast about the system and what they think it is. Then, of course, there are the deleted scenes, none of which are good enough to bother watching, let alone to be in the film -- even in its present condition.

And while I'm not the world's biggest fan of commentaries, I was a little taken aback that, though there are two on the disc, neither was with the one person fans would want to listen to for two hours, professional comedian Dane Cook. I mean, if anyone is gonna make it funny, it's the guy with all the jokes. While this isn't the worst thing you could end up renting this weekend, it's not a disc that is worth digging in to. It's mostly filler, strangely lacking in extras with the film's star and biggest promoter. And none of it was worth watching the first time around, let alone owning.

My Best Friend's Girl is available now from Lionsgate.

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