A Guy Thing

A quick glance at the three main actors for "A Guy Thing" (Jason Lee, Selma Blair and Julia Stiles) tells you that this is a second-rate romantic comedy more likely to send you out to buy toothpaste than go jump in the sack with your date after the movie is over. The cast plays their already empty characters even dumber than the cut-and-paste script demands. Paul (Jason Lee – "Big Trouble") is a Seattle ad salesman working for his fiancée Karen’s (Selma Blair) father (James Brolin) when his bachelor party ends him up in bed with Becky (Julia Stiles), a studiedly unsexy Tiki dancer from the party. Although Becky sleeps nude with Paul – her forgotten panties later serve as a teasing plot device – she reassures him that "nothing happened." Indeed, nothing much does transpire as the movie blunders through the six days leading up to Paul and Karen’s wedding date with Paul acting as a scapegoat for various public and private humiliations over things like crabs, diarrhea and a certain pair of wet panties.

Rated PG-13. 101 mins. (D) (One Star)