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Avg. Critic Score: 31 out of 100 Generally unfavorable 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.

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    As bland and forgettable as its title. Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion A.V. Club | Nathan Rabin

    All Usher fans really seem to want out of a movie like this is an opportunity to ogle their idol for an hour and a half. And that's all this movie affords them. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Anita Gates

    A one-dimensional romantic comedy that feels like an old-fashioned vehicle picture, the kind the big movie studios used to make in the 1930's and 40's just to bring in the fans of a particular actor or actress. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    A pleasantly tuned vehicle for R&B star and budding actor Usher. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A genially cruddy B movie can sometimes go places - sort of - that bigger movies won't. Read full review

  • 30
    L.A. Weekly |

    The movie pitches itself as a modern-day "Romeo and Juliet," but its execution is so lazy and inept that if the lovers were to die horribly it would come more as relief than tragedy. Sadly, in this respect, as in every other, In the Mix disappoints. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    A jumble of genres including mob melodrama, bodyguard romance and interracial love story, none of which is handled in a remotely satisfying manner by director Ron Underwood. The film's tone shifts with all the grace of a car with a balky transmission. Read full review

  • 25
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Even diehard fans will get more out of watching a four-minute music video than they'll find in this mixed-up mess. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    May be a good tactical move for the artist's career, but it's a bad movie. Read full review

  • 11
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    This vehicle for hip-hop star Usher is no blinged-out Beamer rough-riding it over to Jay-Z's joint to wallop some cheeba up off'n the Zeezer's haid; it's more of a Yugo, as in "You go to this wannabe straight-to-video tripe, you deserve what you get." Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ The irresistibly talented Usher is wasted here.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes shootings, beatings, and references to other forms of "mob violence" (one character says his car was blown up). A body appears in a car trunk. The movie features reductive stereotypes: ignorant Italian gangsters; a white boy who acts "hip-hop"; a sexually aggressive black woman; a precocious child (who uses sexual slang); bling-blingy cigar-smoking buddies for the DJ; and a "Big Mama." Characters drink and smoke; women at the dance club wear revealing clothing and dance provocatively.
  • Families can talk about whether or not their kids think the characters are stereotypes. They also might want to talk about all the branded products in the movie. does seeing them in a movie make them more or less appealing?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Mobsters are dumb or self-delusional; characters lie and betray one another.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Conventional mob violence (shootings, beat-downs, a flashing switchblade, tossing a beaten victim from a slowly moving car, a body in a car trunk, then visible in a coffin at the wake).
  • sex false3 Sex: Girls in a nightclub dress and dance provocatively; visual and verbal jokes (alluding to fellatio, "," "" [male genitalia], " the nasty"); cleavage/butt shots in a yoga class; passionate kissing and groping; a soft-lit sex scene featuring closeups of hands and faces; several suggestive song lyrics (for example, "").
  • language false3 Language: Sexual references (e.g., "-style," " the nasty"), cursing (including f-word and s-word), plus an Italian derogatory term for "," "" (short for "," which translates to "").
  • consumerism false5 Consumerism: Aqua Day Spa, fridge shelves displaying Silk soy milk and Heinz ketchup; "Cosmo cover" car brands (Mercedes).
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking (wine, beer, hard liquor) and smoking (cigarettes and cigars).
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