Friends with Kids
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Metascore
55 out of 100

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5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 53 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 h 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 36
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 36
  3. Negative: 1 out of 36
  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. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Pete Hammond
    Mar 7, 2012
    80
    Although Westfeldt's sharp screenplay is mostly talk, it's very good talk.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Helen O'Hara
    Jun 25, 2012
    60
    It benefits from a supernaturally engaging cast, but this treads too closely to the rom-com model to feel as smart or moving as Westfeldt's previous best.
  4. 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: 14 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 24
  3. Negative: 7 out of 24
  1. Matteo
    9
    Rarely does a movie present characters that you identify with everyone of them or have been everyone of them at some point in your life. Yet somehow you want to be none of them. That is life. Humor, truth, emotion, and the impossible dilemmas of life rarely rear their heads together in one story, but they do here. Though the directing is nowhere near Woody Allen's Hanna and Manhattan, and the climax is very hollywood, the majority of the film would make Woody very proud.… Expand
  2. ReviewCritic
    8
    A happy rom com that I believe is probably the only good movie Megan Fox has ever been in.
  3. MarcDoyle
    7
    Seems tough to believe that after the hundreds of rom coms that have been done that we'd see an original concept floated, but that's what this movie brings us. The lead actors are terrific, and the supporting characters (Bridesmaids II) are excellent - though I'm getting the feeling the John Hamm is really a one-role (DD) guy. The movie drags a bit 3/4 of the way into it, but otherwise it's a solid movie with plenty of laughs and hide-your-face moments. Even Megan Fox does a decent job. Worth seeing.… Collapse
  4. 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

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