'How To Lose Friends & Alienate People' a lifeless mess

Cert 15

Comedy/Romance

Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), the snide editor of Post Modern Review, a sardonic rebuke to celebrity culture, is stunned when renowned American magazine editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) offers him a correspondent’s position on New York lifestyle bible Sharps.

Abandoning London for the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, Sidney quickly realises his finely honed sarcasm doesn’t wash with the locals, not least department head Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston) and fellow writer Alison (Kirsten Dunst).

Based on Toby Young’s celebrated memoir, How To Lose Friends & Alienate People is a dull, lifeless mess.