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55 out of 100

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6.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

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  • Summary: Friends With Kids is a comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there’s a better way. They decide to have a kid together - and date other people. This unconventional 'experiment' leads everyone in the group to question the nature of friendship, family and, finally, true love. (Roadside Attractions)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 34
  3. Negative: 1 out of 34
  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Mar 8, 2012
    88
    An indelibly funny and touching comedy with a real sting in its tail. The laughs leave scars.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    Mar 9, 2012
    60
    While "FWK" never challenges us, it does remain consistently engaging.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Mar 8, 2012
    10
    It's shrill in tone, awash in unexamined narcissism - kids are just pretexts for laughs, rather than objects of love - and afflicted by explosive verbal diarrhea. There's simply no base line of normal human activity, let alone intimacy, until the anticouple finally re-examines their anticommitment credo. By then everyone has been so selfish and dislikable that our commitment to the film is lost.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. ReviewCritic
    8
    A happy rom com that I believe is probably the only good movie Megan Fox has ever been in.
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  2. txrangersfan72
    4
    An epic failure of a movie that spends too much time on two moderately appealing characters and never expands on 4 other equally-as-interesting characters. Formulaic for about 95% of the movie, I spent most of my time wondering why it seemed so conceptually similar to When Harry Met Sally, yet was centered around babies. Then, with 10 crucial minutes left to wrap up a story that, if continuing with the formula, had a very predictable ending, yet if it strayed from the formula, it was going to happen very quickly and would ultimately ruin the movie. Somehow, this movie did both. This was a long hour and forty minutes. And the depth just wasn't there. On one hand, it seemed like Jon Hamm life partner, Jennifer Westfeldt, was constructing a sweet film about friends who fall in love, but then on the other, she reduced it to a very shallow and empty story. Such a waste of an incredible cast.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. dc127
    3
    The movie starts out promising but falls flat. There is not a scene in the movie that is not predictable. There are also some anti-religious statements thrown in that do not further the plot but just serve as a way for the writer (and star) to push their own liberal views.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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