Buying the Cow
This generic sex comedy--about a guy who can't decide whether or not to  marry his girlfriend because he's still obsessed with a girl he saw in an  airport when he was a teenager--really has only one thing to recommend it:  Ryan Reynolds (Coming Soon,Van Wilder). Reynolds plays the main  character's horndog friend who becomes convinced he's gay, and while much of his  material is of dubious taste and quality, Reynolds has a mixture of ironic  detachment and actor commitment that makes the most of his role. Everyone  else--Jerry O'Connell (as the obsessed guy), Bridgette L. Wilson (as his  understandably frustrated girlfriend), Ron Livingston, Bill Bellamy, and Alyssa  Milano--have their moments, but the script doesn't offer them much to work with.  When it isn't drowning in clichés about men and women, it's trying way too hard  to be "over the top."--Bret Fetzer