Starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Bill Patterson, Miriam Margoyles, Jeff Bridges, Megan Fox
Riding on British success, Simon Pegg does it alone without Nick Frost when he hits America.
Based on Toby Young's memoirs, Simon Pegg is Sidney Young, a cocky magazine writer who has been enlisted to work for a leading celebrity magazine in New York. His antics get him noticed, mainly for bad at the start. This is before he starts seeing the sleezy side of glamour.
Pegg is pretty likable in this - much more so than he was in Shaun of the Dead. The contrast of a British individual in American settings plays off funnily towards the start, before the general formula of him rising against expectations starts to play off. Here then he starts to find favour with editor (a usual Jeff Bridges) and more importantly Alison, his love interest (Kirsten Dunst...which is odd because I normally can't see her loving anyone with out a spidey secret).
Predictable, yes. But fun and sweet.
3/5
If you like this you should try
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) 3/5
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