While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
A barbed romantic comedy with a distinct debt to the Farrelly brothers' gross-out-plus-sentimentality formula, Just Friends is a welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
28 Nov 2005
fresh:
... while the ending might be a foregone conclusion, getting there involves just enough slapstick manful idiocy to keep the humor moving at a clip.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
28 Nov 2005
rotten:
Just Friends hangs its crude, clobbering sense of humor on a dubious theory.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
28 Nov 2005
rotten:
Just Friends is part Farrelly Brothers and part Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, all wrapped together to deliver gross-out gags in bizarrely random and rapid-fire fashion, with zero intent to develop sustainable plot or character.