Metascore
31 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 26
  2. Negative: 15 out of 26
  1. Cheerful and unpretentious.
  2. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    60
    The true star of this film, funny and often breathtakingly lovely, Zellweger carries virtually every scene in which she appears -- which aren't nearly as plentiful as one might like.
  3. Reviewed by: Chris Koseluk
    58
    You'll forget it tomorrow, but it's fun while it lasts.
  4. Feeble and formulaic.
  5. A pretty lame premise for a movie.
  6. 50
    The conclusion is a sweet bit of frosting on an otherwise unremarkable confection.
  7. The only thing more disappointing than a truly awful film is a merely weak one that has some really fun moments.
  8. Reviewed by: Anjali Arora
    50
    Offers easy wisdom and light-hearted fun.
  9. Reviewed by: Daysun Chang
    50
    A wildly silly goose chase.
  10. Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.
  11. Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.
  12. Reviewed by: Marc Caro
    38
    Too bad the movie concentrates on the male point of view because it kicks to life when Zellweger is on screen.
  13. Out of place, out of time and out of its own cultural context.
  14. 38
    So unremittingly vulgar and inept it makes "The Best Man" and "Runaway Bride" look like masterpieces by comparison.
  15. 30
    Seriously undermined by its sour tone and an unusually charmless performance by star Chris O'Donnell.
  16. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    A remarkably mirthless and inept romantic comedy.
  17. 30
    Viewers have almost two hours to become thoroughly disgusted.
  18. 25
    It's up to O'Donnell to carry the show, and he's simply not up to the task.
  19. Reviewed by: Betsy Sherman
    25
    A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."
  20. The mood is ruined by the bitchy 1990s stereotyping of the husband hunters.
  21. 20
    This is one movie best left unattached.
  22. 20
    Catalog of ugly female stereotypes and rotten jokes.
  23. Reviewed by: Eric Harrison
    20
    A flat-footed film.
  24. 10
    Hellish matrimonial misfire.