The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate's spoiler special podcast on I Love You Man.

Joining me is John Swansberg, our culture editor at Slate.

Hi, great to be here.

Hey, John.

So, I love you, man.

Yeah.

No, really.

You loved I love You Man more than I loved.

Yeah, I think so. We saw it together last night, and I was saying as we were walking out, I could feel the differential waves of liking, you know, flowing across the theater.

You laughed out loud more than I did. I think you couldn't see it, but I was smiling at some moments where you were laughing.

But overall, you were disappointed in this movie.

Well, to say disappointed would indicate that I had high expectations in the first place.

High expectations and perhaps I did.

I enjoyed it.

I really, I think we both felt that the two leads are actors who we really admire a lot

and will sort of are willing to give a long leash to, this being Paul Rudd and Jason Siegel.

And they are winning enough that they carried me through the movie, through a movie that I

thought had some moments that were slightly approaching winceworthy.

Right.

But there are moments that were really great.

And they're actually, in addition to Siegel and Rudd, there's some great

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