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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:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    No better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Could have used more of the shimmering elegance of the Day-Hudson comedies. Those movies had a true sparkle. This one's a likable piece of costume jewelry. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Works hard to earn it and is, for the most part, intelligent and amusing, even if it never achieves the full-tilt zany desperation of Delbert Mann's "Lover Come Back," the best of the real Hudson-Day movies. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Dragging on too long is a more serious flaw in a romantic comedy than it might be in a complex drama. We don't ask much of a movie like this, but we do require it to be snappy, clever and quick. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It's like a "Saturday Night Live" sketch on a $60 million budget. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    What starts as freshly spun cotton candy ends as something pink, sticky and indigestible. You leave the theater wanting to puke it up. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    Director Peyton Reed gets the film's look and, in moments, its disingenuous innocence, but you have to wonder what he and the screenwriters, Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, thought they were parodying. The actors clearly haven't a clue. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | David Rooney

    Stars Zellweger and McGregor are too knowingly nudge-wink in their performances, too much contrived constructs to become real characters, let alone fuel the romantic comedy engine and make an audience care much whether they end up together. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    The parodistic romantic comedy makes the fatal mistake of so much middlebrow satire: It becomes that which it mocks. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ Hilarious spoof on '60s comedies for mature 14+.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has a good deal of sexual innuendo and double entendres, including an extended split-screen sequence that makes it appear that the characters are engaging in a number of sexual acts. There is brief strong language. Characters drink and smoke as evidence of sophistication. Equality of women is a humorous theme of the movie. As in the 1960s movies it salutes, all characters are white.
  • Families can talk about whether a similar plot could work in a movie set in current times.
The good stuff
  • message true2 Positive messages: Equality of women a comic theme of the movie.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Not an issue
  • sex false3 Sex: Constant sexual references and situations including apparent sexual encounters.
  • language false3 Language: Brief strong language, many double entendres.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking as emblems of sophistication.

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