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‘My Man is a Loser’ won’t win over rom-com fans

‘That’s what you got for me? Men are stupid, women are crazy?” says a put-upon wife, echoing my thoughts, in this witless comedy. Here, men are hapless but benign bystanders in relationships with super-capable, vaguely fascistic women. Sound familiar? It should; this cynical rom-com subgenre has been done to death.

Directed by comedian Mike Young, “My Man is a Loser” follows three male friends grappling with the dawning realization that they’re grownups. Business partners Marty (Michael Rapaport) and Paul (Bryan Callen) bemoan their disdainful wives; happily-single pal Mike (John Stamos) appoints himself guru in their search for lost manhood.

The wives (Heidi Armbruster and Kathy Searle) swill Chardonnay, complain and spend their husbands’ money, while Mike’s co-worker (Tika Sumpter), that type of movie hottie who hangs with the guys, becomes a love interest for the secretly lonely bachelor.

Spoiler alert: It’s not just the men who’re losers here, it’s the whole darn enterprise.