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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    52

    out of 100

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    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Jeff Cronenweth did the lovely cinematography. It's the only element that improves on the original material.

  • 50

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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

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  • 75

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Light, funny, and clever.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

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

    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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