I can smell......

Rating: 6/10 (17 October 2012)

Peter Klaven's world revolves around his real estate work and Zooey,his soon-to-be fiancée.
After he pops the question, she calls her best friends and they go into wedding planning mode.
Peter has no male friends and that poses problems, will he turn out to be a clingy guy, and who will be his best man? Zooey, her friends, and Peter's brother Robbie offer help that results in awkward moments. Then, at an open house Peter's hosting, he meets Sydney, an amiable, low-key guy.
They trade business cards, and Peter calls him to meet.
A friendship develops that's great at first but then threatens Peter's engagement and career.
Can guys be friends and couples be in love? finally after years of Chickflicks and endless Richard Curtis movies, us males are given our first 'guy-flick'.
Will this be the start of a new Hollywood trend? A Bromantic comedy where we guys don't feel silly when we told our friends we went to see it? time will tell.
it's an easy synopsis that should have been done years ago, and thank goodness you Americans thought of the idea before us Brits, because I think we wouldn't have gone for the dirty jokes, and Hugh Grant would have probably been in it with Colin Firth, which wouldn't have really worked, thanks to Bridget Jones.
it's vibrant and fresh, with a brilliant central performance from Rudd,who can play an average everyday man perfectly. and it's because the main character has no quirks or isn't slightly eccentric that it makes us feel more empathy for him.
just as you feel that the film will get a little too sentimental, there is a killer line which releases all of the potential lump in the throat feelings one may have.
it moves along at a steady pace, never gets boring, and has plenty of really funny supporting characters to avert the attention.
Rudd should do more films like this, he will one day become a big star.
one happy film.