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Avg. Critic Score: 34 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 OK for kids 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times |

    An amusingly sentimental whiff of a romantic comedy. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Ghosts can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a racy raunchfest or a sentimental celebration of soul mates. So it ends up being a sappy, sleazy hybrid. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Has some laughs - more than a few thanks to Michael Douglas as a dead swinger (the movie's Jacob Marley) - and some moments of tenderness, too. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Mostly clunky and vaguely unsavory. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's not particularly funny to hear women described and valued exclusively in terms of their function as disposable sexual partners. A lot of Connor's dialogue is just plain sadistic and qualifies him as that part of an ass it shares with a doughnut. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    The movie clumps through one witless if not wince-evoking sequence after another without the relief of laughter. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Never comes as close as spitting distance to a laugh. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post |

    The relentless vulgarities in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past would be almost tolerable if they were amusing, but Mark Waters's direction is so tentative that the film's single laugh happens more than an hour in. Read full review

  • 10
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    A junky-looking romantic comedy that's neither remotely romantic nor passably comic. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 14+ Predictable romcom has some iffy stuff, but OK for teens.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this predictable romantic comedy about a shameless womanizer who ultimately sees the error of his ways has plenty of innuendo and discussion about sex, though there's more talk than action. Expect to see deep kissing, some groping, and a clothed man being straddled by a scantily clad woman while they make out. There's also some swearing ("bitch," "damn," etc.) and drinking, including a scene in which an uncle buys his eighth-grade nephew a drink in a bar.
  • Families can talk about the movie's messages about relationships and sex. Why is Connor's behavior so bad? Why do you think he turned out the way he did? And why does Jenny still have feelings for him, considering how he treated her?
  • How is this movie similar to and different from other romantic comedies?
The good stuff
  • message true2 Positive messages: A chauvinistic man who believes that women should be loved and left gets his comeuppance; ultimately, he's persuaded by true love to put his best foot forward.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: While the main character is a shameless womanizer, it's clear that he's not meant to be taken seriously as a role model -- and he learns the error of his ways.
What to watch for
  • violence false1 Violence: A woman slaps a man; two brothers yell at each other; a man crashes his car at the bottom of a hill.
  • sex false3 Sex: Lots of innuendoes ("spooning isn't as much fun as forking," etc.) and a fair amount of discussion about what women and men want in bed. Deep kissing, though some of it is played for laughs. Characters talk about wanting "wedding sex," a man gropes his brother's future mother-in-law, and scantily clad women prance around a photographer's studio -- later, one of them is seen straddling the photographer and making out with him.
  • language false2 Language: Language includes one use of "s--t," plus "a--hole," "ass," "damn," "hell," "bitch," "laid," "banged," "screwed," "dick," "oh my God," and "goddamn."
  • consumerism false1 Consumerism: A Polaroid camera figures in the plot, and characters mention alcohol brands by name.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: One character talks about snorting a pile of cocaine (but it's not shown). Characters drink heavily during a wedding weekend, sometimes intentionally to excess. An uncle takes an eighth grader to a bar and orders hard liquor for him.
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