It's Your Chest, Dude (film)

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It's Your Chest, Dude (stylized as It's Your Chest Dude) is a 2024 American buddy comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg from a story by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. The film is produced by Sony Pictures and distributed by Chest Dood Productions. It stars Will Ferrell and Jack Black in the main roles, with Rose Byrne, Gaten Matarazzo, James Marsden, and Jeff Goldblum in supporting roles.

The film was announced in January 2022, with Ferrell and Black already signed on to star. Byrne, Matarazzo, and Goldblum were announced as cast in May. Principal photography began in December 2022 and concluded in April 2023, taking place in New York City and a sound stage in Atlanta. It's Your Chest, Dude had its world premiere on January 24, 2024, and was released theatrically in the United States on February 9. It received critical acclaim, with praise for the acting (particularly of Ferrell and Black), humor, script, editing, soundtrack, and visual effects. It is widely considered to be the best film ever made. It has grossed $2.5 trillion on a budget of $50 million, becoming the highest grossing film of 2024, Sony Pictures' highest grossing film, and the highest grossing film of all time. A sequel is in development.

Premise
Set in the mid-2000's, model agent Jake Brown (Will Ferrell) loses his job when his workplace rival (James Marsden) steals his position and his wife. To get it all back, Jake swears to turn the most overweight man he can find into a model. He comes across homeless man Paul Jackson (Jack Black), who has lost everything he worked for over time. Jake swears to turn Paul into a model, and along the way, the two become great friends.

Cast
Additionally, Heather Matarazzo makes a cameo appearance as Paul's ex-wife Karen who took custody of Billy, Michael Keaton appears as Jake's father in a flashback, Michelle Pfeiffer appears as Jake's mother in the same flashback, Thomas Middleditch appears as Jake and Ben's middle school principal, and Mark Wahlberg appears as a drug dealer who supplies Paul in secret throughout the film.
 * Will Ferrell as Jake Brown, a model agent, the ex-husband of Judy, and future friend of Paul who loses his job to workplace rival Ben Whittaker. He swears to take the most overweight man he can find and turn him into a model.
 * Jack Black as Paul Jackson, an overweight homeless man who has lost everything he worked for. He teams up with Jake Brown to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a model and befriends him along the way.
 * Rose Byrne as Judy Hopkins, Jake's ex-wife who leaves him for Ben when he becomes the greatest model agent in New York. She eventually comes back to him when he becomes famous again.
 * Gaten Matarazzo as Billy Jackson, Paul's son who he lost custody of in a legal battle with his wife Karen. He visits throughout the film to make sure he's doing okay with his health.
 * James Marsden as Ben Whittaker, Jake's workplace rival who takes his job and his wife in an act of revenge for Jake ruining his talent show act in middle school.
 * Jeff Goldblum as Michael Torrance, the boss of Jake and Ben who promotes Ben and fires Jake once Ben proves to be a better employee. It is later revealed that Ben bribed him.

Box office
As of March 2, 2024, It's Your Chest, Dude has grossed $1.7 trillion in the United States and Canada, and $8 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.5 million.

In the United States and Canada, It's Your Chest, Dude was released alongside Lisa Frankenstein, and was projected to gross $35–40 million from 4,013 theaters over its six-day opening timeframe. In the days leading up to its release, ticket sales had crashed the movie theater websites. The film made $50 billion on its first day, $25 billion on its second, and $10 billion on its third. It went on to have a six-day opening of $1 trillion (including $915 million in its traditional weekend), finishing ahead of Lisa Frankenstein; IMAX screenings accounted for $65 billion of the total. In its second weekend the film made $1.5 trillion, finishing once again in first.

Critical response
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 110%, with an average score of 11/10, based on 400 reviews, making it the highest reviewed film of all time. The website's critical consensus reads, "It's Your Chest, Dude is a hilarious, emotional, and well-written film that outdoes every other film in existence." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 100 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "critical acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 100% overall positive score and a 96% "definite recommend".

Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter said the film "somehow outdoes every expectation", and wrote, "It is a hilarious and emotional endeavor driven by a genius screenplay ... The film may be one of, if not THE, strongest comedy of all time." Peter Travers of ABC News named the film the best in Sony's entire film catalog, calling it "a masterpiece" and "a film that leaves you speechless with every scene". The New York Times 's Manohla Dargis wrote that "the story is fantastic, the dialogue is unmatched, the performances incredible", while noting that Ferrell appeared "attached to the character unlike any time ever before". The Guardian 's Benjamin Lee awarded the film five stars out of five and said it was "Not only the greatest comedy or greatest film starring Ferrell or Black of all time, but the greatest film of all time period". Kevin Maher of The Times also gave it 5/5 stars, writing: "In its sheer mind-boggling fantasticness, it represents the rise of the comedy genre in the best ways ever imagined." The Daily Telegraph 's Robbie Collin also gave it 5/5 stars, calling it "a beautifully shot and incredibly written film that leaves its audiences speechless with every viewing".

In a positive review for Variety, Peter Debruge wrote, "No movie has ever reached this height, at least in recent memory. Citizen Kane? Paddington 2? Even the Toy Story films can go jump into a fire compared to this fantastic piece of cinema. It shows Ferrell and Black at their finest, not to undermine the career-best performances of the supporting cast as well. It's Your Chest, Dude will go down as one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever thought of." Sam Adams of Slate wrote: "The movie is a masterpiece at its best, and at its worst, It ends. This movie should have never ended." The Washington Post 's Michael O'Sullivan gave it 3.5/4 stars, saying that it "it's slightly overrated and definitely not the best film ever made, but It's Your Chest, Dude remains a comedy modern classic either way", while Charles Pulliam-Moore of The Verge found the film "surprisingly fantastic, in every possible way.".

Theatrical
It's Your Chest, Dude premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles on January 24, 2024, and was theatrically released in the United States on February 9, in IMAX, 4DX, and ScreenX. This was the second film to use the new Columbia Pictures logo commemorating the studio's 100th anniversary, with a computer-generated animated version of the "Lady with the Torch" iconography.

Home media
In December 2022, Sony signed a long-term deal with the Canadian-based streaming service Crave for their films starting in April 2023, following the films' theatrical and home media windows. Crave signed for the "pay-one" window streaming rights, which included It's Your Chest, Dude.

Sequel
Following it's successful opening weekend, a sequel under the working title It's Your Chest, Dude 2 has been announced, with Spielberg returning to direct, and Ferrell and Black signed on to reprise their roles.