Stephanie Zacharek writes that the characters in "You, Me and Dupree" are "all played by actors who know what they're doing and who have terrific natural charm".

I can't agree that Owen Wilson has any charm, or personality, or presence at all, and there is little evidence that he does know what he's doing. Remember his torpid, dead-eyed character with the unreliable accent in "The Life Aquatic"?

I've seen him in more movies than I would have preferred to, and have come to regard him as being below and beneath an unlikable blank. Even when smarmy and frenetic, he is a cinematic black hole, collapsing the energy in his scenes, forcing his fellow actors into compensatory, sometimes desperate, overplaying. If he actually is a box-office draw, the reasons for it escape me completely.

All kind of one-note-wonders....but I think the two blonde ones have lots of charisma. I liked Owen Wilson in Royal Tennenbaums. Kate needs to dial down the winsome-meter in a big way, or I'll be forced to punch her.

Dude? Dude Dude Dude. Dude! Dude? "Dude?" Dude. Dudenocitude.

"[the movie] rarely risks bad taste, even when Molly and Carl catch Dupree masturbating in their living room." It also has a "Dupree stinks up the bathroom" bit, which I've seen way to many times on the TV ads. So, let me ask, what exactly qualifies as bad taste nowadays?

Aside from the fact that the movie itself is obviously bad, does it bother anyone else that Matt Dillon is WAY too old to be playing a young newlywed who works for his father-in-law and has slacker friends like Dupree?

Dillon is 42, Kate Hudson is 27. I just can't buy him him in this role.

But physically he looks almost 15 years younger. And that's what counts in the business.

And the women are always way too young. Women disappear in Hollywood once they hit 40 with rare exception.