How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

The memoirs of some very misunderstood guy

Sidney Young is on his way to the top, unfortunately he thinks he already arrives at where he always wanted to be – as close as possible to the beautiful world of Hollywood glamour and the stardust surrounding it. He's got an offer from „Sharps“-magazine and hell yeah he's gonna take it! He's even going to wear his best dumbass shirt and pay the taxi to his new living – if only he could.

It turns out as it had to. His new home is worse than the only one if that's possible and the magazine – well Sidney doesn't really know what exactly is his job there. Nobody gives him a story to work on and nobody either cares about where he is, what he does and what he gets payed for. He doesn't fit in and the new colleagues don't even let them selfs down to make him feel it. An English boy in New York? Not that big a chance to make it to the top. He messes up with his boss, with the stars he should write about and if he makes a smart move it's mostly out of pure luck. But in the end he is where he always headed to – and doesn't like it there!

“How to make friends & Alienate people” is based on the memoir of writer Toby Young and it feels like one of those “I wanna make it to Hollywood, which way should I take?” movies, not the ones of the best kind usually.

And who could play the role of the smart kid from England who stumbles over his own feet into the star scene than Simon Pegg. Wait, who's that again? Yea right, it's the guy from „Run fat boy run“, who could forget about that „classic“ - which we have all seen, haven't we? No, we haven't, I haven't. I actually read it at the filmography and I've never seen Simon Pegg before. But that's good so I can comment only on his performance in this one movie right here.

I found it – not bad, but not so great either.
He fitted into the role, he really did. But that's it. Really.

Well it started up so funny but in the end I must say it was more the kind of movie you watch when you're not planning anything for the evening and quickly need to find a film that fits for all your friends. Then you should take this one, seriously. A bit funny, a bit interesting and a bit of a performance but well, there were better ones than this.

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People – Released Oct 2008