A new review from The Movie Snob:

Just Friends (B-). It isn’t Citizen Kane, but this new romantic comedy is not a bad way to spend an hour and a half. The protagonist is Chris Brander, played by previously-unknown-to-me Ryan Reynolds. In the set-up, we learn that in high school Chris was badly overweight, terribly dweeby, and best friends with cute, popular Jamie Palomino (Amy Smart). His attempt to become more than “just friends” with the fair Jamie goes badly, and after graduation Chris flees their home town in New Jersey for the West Coast. Fast forward to 2005. Now Chris is a skinny, successful, and very cool record executive, and around Christmas he is assigned to escort pop starlet and Britney lookalike Samantha James (Anna Faris of Scary Movie fame) to Paris and to land some recording deal with her. An emergency landing in New Jersey leads to Chris and Jamie’s reconnection and the usual rom-com trials and tribulations. The romantic main plot is average, but I thought that Faris’s performance as a ditzy yet psychotic pop star was hilarious. She stole every scene she was in. Worth seeing.