FUCK MY LIFE would fit in perfectly with movies like FORGETTING SARAH MARSHAL and THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN. It was the number one movie in Chili last year and I read they are already filming the sequel.
It is a fairly funny comedy about Javier, a young man who breaks up with his girl friend and then wants her back when she starts dating a famous pop star. Around this time he looses his job in advertising, looses all his friends (all but his childhood gal pal) and develops a serious drinking problem. The bulk of the movie is Javier either harassing his ex or dating several crazy women.
The young cast is very attractive (although Javier is more "normal" looking and all the women are hot) and many of the scenes are pretty funny. The two highlights for me were, a date with a supermodel who is listing all the things she hates and one of them is "people with down syndrom". Later Javier goes out drinking with a male bartender who tries to force him to play his favorite game from his prison days "Hide it in the Mouth".Those two jokes give an idea of the sort of humor FUCK MY LIFE consists of. On track with the American comedies of late.
I don't have a whole lot else to say about the movie. The subtitles were rather weak, some things characters said were clearly translated wrong, so I do wonder how many things that didn't make me laugh were simply lost in translation.
The two areas that annoyed me were the large amount of fat jokes, only targeted at women and so much that it seemed very much like overkill. The other thing was Javier's stalker tendencies with his ex. In certain scenes I felt he went beyond just pathetic drunk loser who can't leave her alone, to somewhat threatening of her. In one scene she is in a car with him and he tries to kiss her, when she pulls away he grabs her by the shoulders and forces her face to him and seems to be tearing at her top, but a cop knocks on the window and he stops.
My reaction was somewhat shocked that our leading man would behave that terribly, but the movie moves along like this is no big deal, as if him being drunk and crying outside her window for days is pretty much the same thing as tearing at her clothes while she fights him off.
I would say if you are a fan of THE HANGOVER and those types of films, FUCK MY LIFE is worth checking out. It has some funny parts and its fun to see the Chili take on gross out/sex humor.
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