Thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you! Thank you producers for not dumbing this down to make it a PG-13 in an attempt to make this more accessible to younger audience! That would have ruined your film and been a complete waste of Dane Cook’s time. 
 
Tank (Dane Cook) is a serial asshole. He’s so good at it that guys will hire him to take their ex-girlfriends out and terrorize them for an evening, thus driving them back into the relationship they just abandoned. When Tank’s BFF and roommate, Dustin (Jason Biggs), hires him to drive his co-worker, Alexis (Kate Hudson), back into dating him again the plan backfires when Tank finds her to be a completely different challenge and falls for her himself.
 
The acting in this film is very good. If you like Dane Cook’s stand up comedy, you’ll love this movie. He’s not held back by some lame rating that prevents him from the language he so loves to use. He’s perfect for this role and he jumps back and forth from being someone you can’t stand and is a complete jerk to someone you can pity and can actually feel sorry for him.
 
Jason Biggs seems to finally be growing up. Ever since his tenure as “Jim” in the American Pie movies it has been hard to see him in any other light than a high school or college student. This is his first film were he seems to fit into an adult world.
 
You can never go wrong with Kate Hudson. She’s always been good in whatever movie she’s in at the time, but her more recent roles really portray a strong and independent personality who has a great sense of humor with attitude to match.  You have to love that! Well, I do at least or I wouldn’t be married.
 
The film is well written and actually allows you to identify with all of the characters. It’s surprisingly easy to feel sorry for Tank with him being such an amazing jerk. Even Alec Baldwin, playing Tank’s womanizing father, has a couple of moments where you see there may be more to him than just a callous, self-centered bastard.
 
The comedy is crass and crude and, as long as you’re not the offendable type, then you’ll find yourself laughing more often than not. There is a bit of a lull in the comedy about three quarters into the movie but we need that to really emphasize the resolution of events at the conclusion of the film.
 
This movie was a surprise for me as I’ve hated every other movie Dane Cook has been in recently. Maybe it is due to the producers taking the gloves off and not saddling it with a favorable, younger teen rating that gives Cook the freedom to do what he’s best at that made this movie.
 
The one thing I could have done without is the overuse of the song “My Best Friend’s Girl.” It’s obvious that they had to use it for the main montage sequence where Tank falls for Alexis. That is fine.

What’s not fine is using it at the beginning of the film, the montage scene, four to five other random times and at the end of the film when the credits roll. I like the Cars too, but enough is enough already!

Verdict | Watch It!