Product Details

• Actors: Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Seth Rogen
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JP0L
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,855 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "You, Me and Dupree" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How Many Times Can This Story Be Filmed?, November 23, 2006

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You, Me and Dupree (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

YOU, ME AND DUPREE is a formula film, a template designed for teenage guys who feel the need for potty mouth, noisy, crude guy things movies. There have been a lot of these films of late (all spinoffs of The Wedding Crasher image) and one wonders if there is a saturation point.

Relating the story is rather pointless as it is a one-line joke (?). Dupree (Owen Wilson playing Owen Wilson) is the best man at his buddy Matt Dillon's wedding to Kate Hudson (the You and Me) and subsequently moves in with them, causing all manner of mayhem and bad taste and faux pas and grim situations (think toilet problems etc). And that is it. Michael Douglas was brought in to play a flat role as Kate Hudson's father who objects to her marriage blah blah blah. Ask directors Anthony and Joe Russo for the rest.

We know that Hudson, Dillon and Douglas have much better roles to offer (Wilson seems to have found his niche), and the only reason films like this keep getting made is because they make money (for some reason) at the box office. The film is silly, tacky, tired and should only be rented if the shelves in the video store are otherwise empty... Grady Harp, November 06

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Painful to Watch, January 20, 2007

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James Choma - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You, Me and Dupree (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

Not a good movie. I see the film currently averages three stars on Amazon. If you figure that there haven't been enough fans in the 60+ reviews so far to add four and five-star ratings to the film, there might be a problem somewhere. And there is.

I'm not an Owen Wilson fan, but I was pleasantly surprised by "The Wedding Crashers." I thought Matt Dillion was great in "Something About Mary," so the expectation was the we might be getting the best of both worlds in "You, Me, and Dupree." However, Wilson as Dupree comes across as a pitiful, irritating loser, while Dillion plays it straight almost the entire movie. Kate Hudson, as Dillon's new wife, is fairly easy on the eyes, while Michael Douglas, in yet another questionable movie role, plays it one-dimentional as Hudson's father, Dillion's father-in-law/boss, making every attempt to dominate the newlywed's lives. Combine all these elements and you get...not much.

You may also recall that Walter Becker and Donald Fagan from Steely Dan raised a bit of a ruckus when they claimed that the movie was based on their song "Cousin Dupree" from their "Two Against Nature" album. I don't really see where there was a correlation, but I think it best if Becker and Fagan distance themselves as far away as possible from this mess to avoid any mistaken responsibility for its creation.

As mentioned by a previous reviewer, the best part of the DVD is the gag read in the extras section. Is that enough to rent the DVD? No. But if you find yourself in a situation where you're viewing this, you can at least have something to look forward to.

Grade: D

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars wife liked it, January 15, 2007

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jjlaw "jjlaw" - See all my reviews

This review is from: You, Me and Dupree (Full Screen Edition) (DVD)

familiar story (cf Down and Out in Beverly Hills), some shouting and falling over, masturbation jokes - you know the drill. Tiresome after a while, but the wife sorta liked it after a hard day with the kids....
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Owen Wilson - you were good in Behind Enemy Lines, so less of this boring shaggy guy thing would be nice....