Now out on VOD, Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship is an odd couple comedy with the promising premise that the two main characters become entangled when one has an affair with the other’s wife. The good news is that the comedy is driven by the characters, one an abrasive womanizer and the other a pretentious and self-involved minor novelist. The bad news is that the broad characters are neither textured or interesting or sympathetic enough to sustain a movie of longer than 49 minutes (which is when I stopped watching). And worse, Bert and Arnie wastes a supporting performance by the delightful Anna Chlumsky.
Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship is available streaming from Amazon and iTunes.