The Pleasure of Your Company

Though it becomes more and more conventional as it progresses, The Pleasure of Your Company is initially an irreverent, sporadically hilarious romantic comedy that boasts fantastic performances from stars Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher. The admittedly ludicrous storyline revolves around the exploits of Anderson (Biggs) and Katie (Fisher), a pair of total strangers who agree to get married after Anderson – who’s stuck in a rut after the death of his last girlfriend – proposes within minutes of their first encounter. Written and directed by Michael Ian Black, The Pleasure of Your Company clearly aspires to be nothing more than a breezy romcom – though the filmmaker’s inclusion of distinctly gross-out bits of humor might turn off certain viewers. This is probably as close to another American Pie flick as Biggs is going to get, and there’s no denying that the movie is far funnier than any installment of that overrated trilogy. And although the film starts out a whole lot stronger than it ends (it’s not terribly difficult to figure out where this is all going), The Pleasure of Your Company remains an affable and thoroughly entertaining piece of work for the majority of its running time.

*** out of ****