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Simon Pegg’s latest film loses comedy and alienates audience By Spencer Watson Wednesday, October 8, 2008 submitted photo The cast of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. LITTLE ROCK — It's not usually a good sign when one of the funniest things a movie has going for it is a bowl of dead goldfish. While this botched effort to impress, along with a few other choice highlights, make for more than a few chuckles in director Robert Wedie’s new comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, based on the memoir of the same name by Toby Young, the lack of consistency and an over-reliance on timed-tested tricks when it comes to both comedy and romance leave the end product with much to be desired. THE PLOT: Writer and editor Sidney Young runs a tabloid rag called Post Modern Review in London, where he lambastes media-hungry... [read full story]
