Nothing original about You, Me and Dupree
25/08/2006 - 15:59:17You, Me and Dupree
Directors: Anthony and Joe Russo
Cast: Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson, Michael Douglas
Cert: 12
We’ve had plenty of stories just like this in the long history of the cinema – the awful friend who comes to stay, and stay, and stay – so Wilson, a decent enough comedian, offers us very little that’s new in what is merely a passable affair.
It’s funny enough and inventive enough but there’s nothing startlingly original about it.
Dillon and Hudson make a nice, comfortable couple whose lives are wrecked by the arrival of the cringe-making Dupree, the sort of surprise guest who simply doesn’t know when to depart, and while he stays produces one gaff after another.
Star Rating: 2/5
