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75Though his film is a tad choppy and a lot chatty, Hindman elicits sympathetic performances from leads who demonstrate a deep understanding of movie physics.
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63The Answer Man is a passable way to kill two hours on a lazy summer afternoon, and perhaps an excuse to get out of the heat.
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58A promising premise and some very good actors are smothered in goo in The Answer Man.
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50A theological trifle that ultimately twists itself into a romantic comedy.
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50How much more interesting is a film like "(500) Days of Summer," which is about the complexities of life, in comparison with this one, which cheerfully cycles through the cliches.
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50A perfect example of an Intelligent Bad Movie.
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50Dull, dreary Answer Man raises this question: Why?
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50Daniels plays Arlen with a kind of cuddly crankiness; he makes him a jerk who just needs a hug.
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Hindman is a stand-up comedian with many Turgenev-size issues on his mind--inadequate fathers and troubled sons, overprotective mothers, the search for belief--whose weight this slight picture can hardly bear. But the laid-back charm of Daniels and Graham's bumpy courtship gives the movie a much-needed edge of idiosyncrasy.
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Conveniently, everyone wears their symptoms on their sleeves, but because the characters are so haphazardly drawn, their pain remains elusive to the end.
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50Never shows enough passion to be interestingly bad.
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Its crackly sarcasm and smart talk turn out to be simply coating for a soft, icky, center.
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42Unoriginality is the greatest and most flagrant of its many sins.
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40This two-bit echo of "The Accidental Tourist" is a preachy pill that wastes the genial, funny Jeff Daniels and the criminally underused Lauren Graham.
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40Jeff Daniels' gleeful misanthropy and Lauren Graham's emotional openness are poorly served by the pic's transparently phony story and therapeutic uplift
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25Brutally banal chitchat about life and love ensues.