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How Do You Know is dull. It's marketed as a buddy movie, with a hot lead, but it's a weak James L. Brooks effort, and for those who don't know, they'll be walking out of the theater halfway through. Yes, there were 2 different groups of people that walked out last night, cutting our audience into half. One of the groups left their buddy behind because he fell asleep. When the guy came back to get buddy, the waking up of buddy merited the biggest laughs of the night.
Mixed in with this love triangle is 2/3 of the movie on career disappointments and father/son business relationships mixed with a federal investigation on the business. It's a mess because the writing is never that funny when it tries to be, and never that dramatic when it tries to be.
The actors weren't too impressive. Reese Witherspoon has a number of bald statements of "That's strange." "That's funny." "You're weird." "You're funny." And she ends up being pretty annoying when they aren't showing her legs. Paul Rudd isn't suave, and he isn't today's awkward male lead. He's playing some halfway proper/English, talks in full sentences, idealist corporate climber. Owen Wilson does his usual thing, which is either good or bad depending on your perspective.
Skip it.
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