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5.5 out of 10

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 6 out of 20

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  1. ChadS.
    May 15, 2009
    6
    Romantic comedies often corroborate on the New Wave notion that "the history of cinema is boys photographing girls." What filmmaker Jean Luc Goddard meant, without apology, was that film is, and always will be, largely a patriarchal construct. In other words, the guy, more often than not, gets his girl. For girls, it's harder. No matter how many fish sticks and tater tots Dawn Wiener(Heather Matarazzo) heats up for Steve(Eric Mabius) in Todd Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse", the hunky lead singer of her older brother's clarinet-driven band will never give the plain girl a fighting chance. The cinema is rigged so ordinary men can pursue, and win over, women who are clearly out of their league. With a tradition of conquering underdogs on his side, Mike tells Sue, "You have a great butt," which should earn him a drink tossed in his face, but instead, the professional woman bends over, like the Maggie Gyllenhaal character in Steven Shainberg's "Secretary". Even though Sue is more accomplished than Mike, the submissive position that she assumes, has the unintended effect of revealing how the male hero always has control over the girl he's pursuing, regardless of how great the odds are stacked against him. "Management" is just a little more brazen about the fix than most films. According to this movie, groping works; stalking works too...on both coasts. What "Management" lacks is a genuine romantic moment. Skydiving into a pool is funny, but not romantic, as is serenading Sue with a Bad Company song. When Sue puts her hand on Mike's butt, the film romanticizes her own objectification. At the very least, Mike should tell Sue that she's beautiful.… Expand
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  2. johnny2cents
    Oct 4, 2009
    3
    Painful. This movie tries really hard to be quirky and many other things butt succeeds at none. You would have to be on LSD to believe that this coupling would ever be possible. It is way too far fetched from reality to accept even in a movie that is trying to be ...well I'm still not sure what it wanted to be. Think it may have needed a little more Woody, I mean the Harrelson character.
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  3. KatG
    May 16, 2009
    1
    YECH!! Not even worth a slot on the Netflix queue.
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  4. Mr.Aniston89
    May 17, 2009
    10
    It's a beautiful movie !! Great funny and romantic story, good actors !! Aniston is a sexy woman !!
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  5. carolynl
    May 15, 2009
    3
    The whole premise for this movie is asinine . Sue's acceptance of Mike's need to touch her butt is juvenile and simple adds to the pathetic rationale for the main storyline of this movie .
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  6. Deadsarow
    Oct 10, 2010
    2
    This movie sucks. I am still trying to understand what the point of this wanna-be cute movie is. Throughout the romantic "comedy", I was confused. The way you know a movie is bad is when it confuses the hell out of you without trying to. Horrible movie. Wouldn't recommend it to a horse.
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50 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 4 out of 26
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Peter Brunette
    60
    Ultimately delivers the goods, even if the goods aren't very fresh.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    70
    Picture benefits greatly from appealing performances by Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, who deftly apply darker emotional shadings to their characters when necessary, and equally fine work from a small ensemble of solid supporting players.
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  3. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    A standard-order romantic comedy with many of the expected twists and complications. It suffers from the flaw of not giving the lead characters enough time together.
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