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25 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 30
  3. Negative: 21 out of 30
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  1. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    Director Ken Kwapis uses those monster infants perfectly, down to a funny final outtake.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    50
    The fact that License to Wed isn't as unbearable as its trailers make it look doesn't mean it's good. It's not. It's just another mediocre addition -- worse than the best sitcoms, better than the worst.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Rev. Robin Williams goes from mildly comic to downright creepy.
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    50
    The characters and plot lack even a shred of credibility.
  5. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Zack Haddad
    50
    It isn't the worst romantic comedy I have ever seen.
  6. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    50
    Bland and boring.
  7. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    50
    Uneven but occasionally funny.
  8. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    42
    The creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like "Meet the Parents" with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.
  9. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Josh Rosenblatt
    40
    It goes without saying that this will be no everyday marriage class, not with a hyperactive Williams setting the curriculum.
  10. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    38
    Williams' grimace is starting to look desperate. Then again, no one comes off well in director Ken Kwapis' handling of this greasy screenplay.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    38
    The outtakes that accompany the end credits suggest that making the movie was a blast; it's a shame the same can't be said for watching it.
  12. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Stephen Saito
    38
    Krasinski and Moore are an adorable couple, but marriage material they aren't, especially since they're given a mere ten minutes to form a full-fledged relationship before Williams breathlessly barges into the picture.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    33
    Krasinski knows how to play off Williams--his pained looks are all too appropriate in the face of Williams' desperate shtick--but it's disillusioning to see him here, because he seems too smart for this film.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    30
    Dreadful excuse for an unromantic comedy.
  15. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    30
    The movie is a pastiche of tortured slapstick, groan-inducing dialogue and a lethal dose of treacle, apparently awaiting one of Williams' trademark sprees of riffing and vamping to save the day. That moment never comes, however.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    Pic is at best a relatively harmless way to enjoy air conditioning for those who admire Williams' ability to riff, even at his most irritating.
  17. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joanne Kaufman
    30
    The inert License to Wed shambles along one lame scene after another.
  18. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    Director Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) gives this script by many hands a certain gloss it doesn't deserve.
  19. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    Watching Robin Williams as a pastor giving premarital counseling to lovebirds John Krasinski and Mandy Moore in License to Wed is like having a laugh chastity belt cinched up tight around your funny bone.
  20. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    If unused spit takes, flubbed dialogue, and extra improvisation are so uproarious, why not give us 90 minutes of that? License to Wed is tolerable for about five.
  21. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    25
    This movie is bad from top to bottom, front to back, and start to finish.
  22. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    25
    Forget about "Saw," "Hostel" and all the other films in the new, notorious torture-porn genre. If you're looking for a really sick movie, check out License to Wed.
  23. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    25
    Nothing in this film -- even Robin Williams, alas -- is funny.
  24. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    20
    Working from a flawed premise with characters lacking credibility and plot turns more moronic than funny, the movie flatlines in about five minutes.
  25. Empire
    Reviewed by: Tony Horkins
    20
    If ever there was lawful impediment for a marriage to not go ahead, it's this mess of a movie.
  26. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    10
    The only thing that kept me watching License to Wed until the end (apart from being paid to do so) was the faith, perhaps misplaced, that I will not see a worse movie this year.
  27. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    8
    An atrocious Robin Williams vehicle that might be Hollywood's first anti-romantic comedy.
  28. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    0
    There's bad, there's awful and there's horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy -- where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren't funny -- is License to Wed, the latest ghastly exercise starring Robin Williams.
  29. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Mary Elizabeth Williams
    0
    One unbelievably crappy movie.
  30. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    0
    A sham.
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4.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 40 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 6 out of 12
  1. Island7
    8
    This movie is actually very funny and entertaining. Exceed my expectations.
  2. [Anonymous]
    0
    Pure horror.
  3. QuinnR.
    7
    Not nearly as bad as the critics said. This movie is at times laugh out loud funny and should be watched before it is judged.
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