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The general plot of Just Friends is this: A fat kid named Chris is in love with his friend Jamie, but she just wants to be friends, so he moves to L.A., loses the weight and becomes a successful womanizing music executive. Then Chris has to come back to his hometown where he is reunited with Jamie, and becomes the awkward teen he tried so hard to forget about all over again, trying to persuade Jamie to go out with him. That is basically the plot. Original, no?

Okay, first things first: The fat suit that Ryan Reynolds wears in this film is absurdly bad looking, like most fat suits have a tendency to be. Also, the humor in this film just really is not funny. I think I laughed a whole two times while watching this flick, and I think both of those times I was laughing about how bad the fat suit looked.

And outside of the bad jokes and the fat suit, the rest of the movie is just unremarkable. You never really care about the characters, and while the acting is not outright bad, it is not exactly great either. All in all, Just Friends is a stinker that you are probably better off avoiding.

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