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So-so
Avg. Critic Score: 52 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Miller time for the funny bone. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Only a smattering of the potential is realized in this tolerable disappointment, which is so unworthy of getting angry about that it will still become a knee-jerk hit. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    The antics here are strained, graceless and tiresomely crude, the sorts of things audiences feel they're supposed to laugh at rather than well-developed situations that generate genuine amusement. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Isn't all bad. It isn't good, either, but it's better than it deserves to be, and if one sits and watches, the laughs do come, a few. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The concept is inspired. The execution is lame. Anger Management, a film that might have been one of Adam Sandler's best, becomes one of Jack Nicholson's worst. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Undercooked, although it feels enough like a comedy for you to swallow it if you have to. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Though what he does here pretty much defines coasting, Nicholson just fooling around adds an energy to even the kind of hopelessly contrived material that lets you know that the lowest common denominator just got lower. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    It's a remarkable, if appalling, spectacle of self-abasement. But of course, that's Sandler's specialty. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Very raunchy, uneven comedy with great actors.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is extremely raunchy for a PG-13, with constant jokes about penis size, plus jokes about lesbian porn stars who enjoy three-way sex, a drag queen prostitute, a mentally ill girl, masturbation, premature ejaculation, flatulence, and prison rape. It has comic violence. Characters drink and smoke.
  • Families can talk about some of Dr. Rydell's comments, especially when he says that there are two kinds of anger, explosive and implosive and that sarcasm is anger's ugly cousin. How do the people in your family handle their anger? It might also be interesting to talk about Sandler's attraction or compulsion to explore these themes. It's hard to escape the sense that he is working through some of his own issues with this material.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Lots of mean-spirited and tasteless humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Comic violence
  • sex false5 Sex: Very explicit for a PG-13
  • language false5 Language: Very strong for a PG-13
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Social drinking

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