You, Me and Dupree

Name: You, Me and Dupree
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: July 14, 2006
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Owen Wilson

2006

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YOU, ME AND DUPREE

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 14, 2006

Starring: Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Owen Wilson

Summary: The wildly comic story of a suburban couple (Dillon, Hudson) who are just trying to make their new marriage work when her and me unexpectedly becomes You, Me and Dupree (Wilson). (Universal Pictures)

Director: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 108 min

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The A.V. Club - Scott Tobias

You, Me And Dupree isn't terribly democratic about spreading the laughs around; whenever Wilson disappears from the screen, the comedy evaporates in kind. Read full review

Premiere - Melissa Farrar

Like Dupree himself, the film wears out its welcome a little, but is still entertaining. Read full review

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Liam Lacey

The resolution includes an overlong and underfunny chase scene. Read full review

New York Post - Lou Lumenick

Uncompromisingly mediocre comedy. Read full review

Christian Science Monitor - Peter Rainer

I don't mean to imply that this film is any good or that it contains an ounce of genuine insight. But as a template for the big-baby genre, it's invaluable. Read full review

The New York Times - Manohla Dargis

A limp attempt to wed a romantic comedy to a buddy comedy, largely because the filmmakers see women as visitors from another planet, which is more or less what they now are in Hollywood. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle

It's just off, odd and joyless. Read full review

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Resist4God

Mar 30, 2014

This is the best movie I have seen in a long time. I cannot believe how low the ratings are for this movies, it is astonishing. This movie presents Owen Wilson at his finest, it's got laughs, romance, drama, and action: all of the recipes for an amazing movie, but it takes it a step further.This is the best movie I have seen in a long time. I cannot believe how low the ratings are for this movies, it is astonishing. This movie presents Owen Wilson at his finest, it's got laughs, romance, drama, and action: all of the recipes for an amazing movie, but it takes it a step further. The chemistry between characters is wonderful and hilarious at the same time, and the movie is definitely relatable to anyone who has seen how a jealous father acts. It's funny and action packed from start to finish, and I feel that everyone should give it a watch.… Expand

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Rev.Rikard

Jul 24, 2006

A riot! Hilarious! Some people don't know good humor when they see it, but I really enjoyed this one. Wonderful!

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JoelT

Aug 8, 2006

Loved it! Very funny.

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jp992751

Jan 25, 2011

A plot that is so overplayed and a movie that really shouldn't have been very good made better by the likable Owen Wilson. You, Me and Dupree shouldn't have been a good movie, the plot is over-used, and the situations were so extreme it was almost not even believable, but Owen Wilson bringsA plot that is so overplayed and a movie that really shouldn't have been very good made better by the likable Owen Wilson. You, Me and Dupree shouldn't have been a good movie, the plot is over-used, and the situations were so extreme it was almost not even believable, but Owen Wilson brings a charisma to the screen that allows you to enjoy the movie even when in the back of your mind you are wondering why you are watching something so worn out.… Expand

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JeffS.

Nov 22, 2006

Mediocre comedy, at best. I really wanted to like the movie, but, when it ended, I felt a little let down. I think the potential is there for a good flick, and I really like the members of the cast, but the comedy is a little few and far between. The film began to drag on, for me at least, Mediocre comedy, at best. I really wanted to like the movie, but, when it ended, I felt a little let down. I think the potential is there for a good flick, and I really like the members of the cast, but the comedy is a little few and far between. The film began to drag on, for me at least, a little past the half-way point. It seemed as though the film-makers tried to add a 'feel-good' / romantic comedy aspect to the movie, but I was never drawn into that story. Perhaps it was a chemistry issue between Dillon and Hudson, or perhaps it was that I never really sympathized with the two characters, but it succeeded as a 'buddy flick' much more than a 'romantic comedy', which was disappointing considering my liking of Hudson.… Expand

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EliC.

Nov 30, 2006

Watched this while trapped on a trans-Atlantic flight. Only think it has going for it is that it made the time pass.

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MarkB.

Jul 22, 2006

Comedies about the Houseguest From Hell (aka The Thing That Wouldn't Leave) are notoriously difficult to pull off, largely because one tends to sympathize too much with the beleaguered captive hosts to find their inability to unload the obnoxious, overbearing jerks who've taken up Comedies about the Houseguest From Hell (aka The Thing That Wouldn't Leave) are notoriously difficult to pull off, largely because one tends to sympathize too much with the beleaguered captive hosts to find their inability to unload the obnoxious, overbearing jerks who've taken up permanent residence too terribly funny. That's why I never much enjoyed The Man Who Came To Dinner, although What About Bob? tweaked the formula perfectly: the psychiatrist/author played by Richard Dreyfuss was such an unlikable, self-centered prig that it was a real pleasure watching childlike neurotic Bill Murray innocently torture him. My reservations about this subgenre, however, are no excuse or explanation for why the latest example of it is so astonishingly, jaw-droppingly inept on nearly every possible level. Newlyweds Carl and Molly (Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson) take in Carl's recently unemployed, mega-slacker buddy Dupree (Owen Wilson); since the two guys have been best buds for 25 years, Carl's apparently complete naivete about Dupree's triple-digit bad habits and total lack of consideration for his hosts (or the possibility that Carl knew all about them but still subjects his wife to Dupree anyway) seems to indicate a marriage whose lifespan is doomed to make that of Britney Spears and Jason Allen Alexander look like Paul Newman's and Joanne Woodward's by comparison. Mark Twain, in a hilarious essay, excoriated James Fenimore Cooper for blatant character inconsistencies in his most famous character, frontiersman Natty Bumppo, pointing out that Cooper had Bumppo talking like a British nobleman in one chapter in one chapter and an illiterate field hand the next. Twain would have a field day with this script! The three major characters arbitrarily change personalities and qualities for no other reason than to allow the screenwriter to sledgehammer his logistical giant round pegs through a seemingly endless number of square holes: Carl shifts from loving husband to inconsiderate workaholic to near-psycho; Molly from understandably detesting Dupree to becoming his closest confidant; Dupree himself from infantile, self-absorbed creep to naueseatingly beatific New Age Leo Buscaglia clone with no logic, apparent pattern or satiric intent. It's no surprise that directors Anthony and Joe Russo were involved with TV's Arrested Development because this movie looks like eight different sitcom scripts by eight different writers randomly shuffled and run through a shredder. (Hmmm, not a bad idea, actually.) Gags so deadeningly predictable as to possibly make this movie the subject of a drinking game once it hits DVD (although participants shouldn't even TRY to walk home much less drive afterward) and a singularly pointless climactric chase scene in and of themselves wouldn't relegate You, Me & Dupree to its own unique, fetid little circle of Movie Hell, but the moviemakers' truly puzzling, apparent hatred and fear of women (or at the very least, their absolute refusal to try to understand them) is more than enough to do the job. Not only do the Russos not even bother to show us the school librarian that Molly, in one of the film's too-numerous-to-enumarate improbabilities, fixes Dupree up with, but the character is disparagingly referred to BY HER FRIEND MOLLY as a "slut"; Annie, the wife of Carl's second-best friend Neil (Seth Rogen, who was wonderful in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and totally wasted here) is ALSO never seen but is depicted as a shrill, nagging harpy who's a PSA for permanent bachelorhood. (Poor Amanda Detmer!) And in keeping with the general pattern, I guess, even though we see plenty of Carl's manipulative boss and father-in-law (Michael Douglas), we never get to see Molly's mom--didn't she even bother to show up at the wedding?!? Of the leads, Hudson at least manages a few wry facial expressions that make her performance this movie's closest thing to passable; Dillon, who so brilliantly navigated the inherent contradictions of his racist-with-reasons cop in last year's Crash, is totally defeated here; and Douglas, between this and 2006's earlier The Sentinel, seems to be throwing in the towel completely. Worst of all is Wilson as the sock-abusing Dupree; what this movie would describe as his essential "Owen-ness" is nothing more than evidence that he's a one-trick pony who's getting more and more tiresome in movie after movie. For every Wedding crashers, where clever writing and fresh direction are temporary diversionary factors (or Cars, which allows Wilson to depart from the formula entirely) there are three or four Starsky and Hutches, Big Bounces or You, Me & Duprees to reveal how shopworn his bliseed-out stoner act has gotten. Wilson truly is becoming a very annoying houseguest, and he's definitely overstayed his welcome. Time to polish up the act...or start packing.… Expand

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