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Three to Tango
Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 26
  3. Negative: 9 out of 26
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    Perry is at his best playing frenetic confusion.
  2. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    70
    Quite smart, sensitive, and relatively sophisticated.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    70
    A smart and sassy comedy with a playful sensibility and subtle sensitivity.
  4. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Daysun Chang
    65
    A perfect date movie for boys and girls, boys and boys, and boys just pretending to like boys.
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  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    63
    A thin, by-the-numbers romantic comedy that nevertheless features one saving grace: Matthew Perry.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    A cute, often very funny romantic comedy and an effective vehicle for Matthew Perry.
  7. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Andy Seiler
    63
    Best to wait until the movie makes it to TV - where its missteps will loom less large.
  8. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    50
    Television sitcom-style directing and writing.
  9. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    50
    Dismayingly predictable and rote, a simple premise played out in the most obvious way possible.
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  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    50
    Perry and Campbell are charming despite this straitjacket plot.
  11. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Milton Kent
    50
    So much of Three to Tango is calculated to push the proper emotional buttons that it's ultimately unsatisfying.
  12. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    42
    The vapid plot line follows the same narrative arc as "Tootsie" but hasn't the heart or purpose of that film.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    An uncomfortable go at romantic comedy that belabors the same mistaken-for-gay premise as"In & Out," but without much of that film's charm.
  14. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Sarah Hepola
    40
    For each prejudice the film tries to shatter, it furthers a different stereotype.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    40
    Does have its share of bona fide chuckles, but it falls shy of its possibilities.
  16. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Kevin Stuart
    40
    Relax and enjoy the brain candy.
  17. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    40
    The movie's half over before it really starts to whack at the funny bone.
  18. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Trips early and never gets up off the floor.
  19. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    Puts more miles on plot that was worn out long ago.
  20. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    30
    Placing gay characters front and center in big Hollywood movies is supposed to inspire cheers, not the case of the creeps that comes with Three To Tango.
  21. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    30
    The kind of movie that TV stars do when they're on hiatus and trying to squeeze one in.
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  22. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Eric Harrison
    30
    Typical of this movie's cluelessness is the way it cavalierly traffics in stereotypes.
  23. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    In trying to be both bold and nonthreatening, the movie ends up seeming tame and mildly offensive.
  24. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    25
    Mired in a plot of such stupidity.
  25. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    6
    Inept, unfunny, and so brimming with bad ideas it's a wonder it wasn't manufactured by mandrills rather than adult humans.
  26. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Bruce Fretts
    0
    I didn't think Matthew Perry could find a romantic comedy more inert or inane than the 1997 fiasco ''Fools Rush In.''
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