Fire your agent, Steve Carell
08.26.10
It was painful watching a brilliant comedic actor like Steve Carell trapped in a lame-plot-driven, French remake mess like Dinner for Schmucks. Luckily, he’ll never do that again. By which I mean he’s starring in another remake of a foreign comedy, Argentina’s A Boyfriend for My Wife. But this one will probably be really good, because it’s being adapted by the writers of Snow Dogs, Cuba Gooding’s triumphant return to Oscar form.
Scratch my records, Variety:
In the original film, “Un novio para mi mujer,” (English title: A Boyfriend for My Wife), a timid husband believes the only way out of his stifling marriage is to get his wife to fall in love with another man, so he enlists the help of a legendary yet unlikely Lothario. Directed by Juan Taratuto, it was Argentina’s leading homegrown pic in 2008. Warners has tapped the writing team of Mark Gibson and Phil Halprin (“Snow Dogs”) to adapt.
More like Juan TaraPUTO, verdad? JAJAJAJA. I feel like certain things translate, and comedy usually isn’t one of them. “No no, eez funny, you trust Sergei. Een Latvia, we say za newt, he eezza very sneaky!”
Steve Carell’s post-40-Year-Old-Virgin movie track record: Date Night, Get Smart, Dan in Real Life, and Evan Almighty.
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So, he fixes the cable?
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
So nice to see a niche fetish like cuckolding go mainstream.
I feel like certain things translate, and comedy usually isn’t one of them.
*holds right hand in circled fingers and moves it back and forth toward open mouth while pushing on the inside of the left cheek with tongue. Japanese businessman looks puzzled for a second before an exclamatory look comes over him and he produces a set of car keys and several cigars*
I like where this is going…
a timid husband believes the only way out of his stifling marriage is to get his wife to fall in love with another man
Even faster way to get rid of her? Start fucking a guy yourself.
Fastest way to get rid of her? Offer any one of the commenters here a shovel, an alibi and a box of Chocodiles.
C-Tate as the younger male suitor. Come on Hollywood execs don’t let me down!
Hell we don’t even need the box of Chocodiles. Though I’d love me some Choco Tacos, Pew Pew Pew
*gnaws on wife’s femur*
So, what’s all this about Chocodiles?!
Dress her up like a barista and Jirish will do it for fucking free. Hell, The Mighty One will drive. They have baristas at Catholic High Schools, right?
Evan Almighty was on TV the other night so I thought, “Fuck it, let’s see how bad it is”. It may be the most wholesome movie ever made. It cannot be classed as a comedy though. $200 Million and not one gag in it. Fans of thumbs getting hit with hammers and birds shitting might like it though.
If he wants to make his wife leave him, all he has to do is withhold sex.
Haha, just kidding. Married people don’t have sex.
Holy shit, an Argentinian rom-com as done by the writers of ‘Snow Dogs’?
That’s impressive. most of my Mad-Libs have the word “pussy-booger” in them. This one almost kinda makes sense.
If he really wants to get out of his marriage, all he has to do is pick up his own crusty socks and put them in the laundry hamper and she’ll die of shock.
ChinoMoreno says:
If he really wants to get out of his marriage, all he has to do is pick up his own crusty socks and put them in the laundry hamper and she’ll die of shock.
Strike that. Reverse it. Welcome to my world.
If my husband got me a boyfriend I’d happily give him a divorce. And the kids.
Surprised the Dane Cook photo hasn’t incited more verbal violence. I.Hate.Him.
Dane Cook took the part because he heard it involved “cock-holding”.
/high-fives High5
Steve Carell’s character should force her to watch him rape their dog and then make it hit the bricks. The movie would be called Losers Walk.
I feel like certain things translate, and comedy usually isn’t one of them.
Ah finally I understand why I never win COTW
Since Im from Argentina, I saw this piece of shit and I never understood what people laughed at. The wife has a few good jokes, thats it.
Bad things couldn’t POSSIBLY come from translating a foreign movie that is essentially a shitty rewrite of “My Best Friend’s Girl”.
Nope.
I’m from Argentina too and when this movie was released, everybody remembered the one with the same plot starred by Matt Dillon and Anabella Sciorra.
Anyway, this version is not terrible bad, just bad.
The next logical step in Carell’s evolution will be to become a rapper, grow a grizzly beard, a bird’s nest hairdo, and start wearing Cleveland Steamers on his person.