My Best Friend's Girl (2008) | How Woke Is It?

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My Best Friend's Girl2008

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What We Think

'My Best Friend's Girl' is about as non-woke as it gets in recent decades. Expect humor, flawed characters, and zero ideological lectures. If you miss the days before every comedy needed a checklist, this is a throwback.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

'My Best Friend's Girl' sticks to tried-and-true rom-com formulas with character development based on humor and chemistry rather than identity politics. Representation feels organic, and personal flaws drive the humor rather than ideological messaging. Nothing seems forced or shoehorned in for the sake of modern sensibilities.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film plays with traditional gender roles and relationship dynamics, sometimes crassly, but never in an attempt to mock masculinity, family, or tradition. If anything, it reflects a pre-woke sensibility, with some antics now considered 'politically incorrect.'

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There is no sense that alternative or traditional viewpoints are villainized. In fact, the humor arises from embracing and poking fun at differing perspectives on dating and relationships, not enforcing ideological uniformity.

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