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75Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
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63There are several stretches when the movie is actually hilarious.
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63There is really nothing wrong with Peter Chelsom's Town & Country that younger stars would not have solved.
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60It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny.
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60What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.
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60Where Town and Country gets really good and weird – and I do mean good – is only after about an hour into it in deepest, darkest Idaho.
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60Nowhere near as bad as distributor New Line seems to think.
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50Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
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50The humor here is overcooked to the point of limpness.
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50The movie's not bad enough to be world-ending, merely clumsy.
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50Not unlike "Eyes Wide Shut," this is an eerily earnest contemplation of fidelity, and it's pitched as farce.
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40Sets up a cast -- and then proceeds to knock them down like ducks in a shooting gallery.
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40This should have been Beatty's "Wonder Boys," but the filmmakers don't seem to realize they've sent their hero on a sexual adventure that neither his heart nor his dick needs to take.
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40A lot of talent on both sides of the camera operating in low gear.
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38The film is clearly an unfinished work and one that feels like a ragged assemblage of parts from at least two entirely different movies all with the same cast.
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38The surprise behind Town and Country isn't that the director started filming without a finished script, but that he ever thought he had the start of one.
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30So bewildering it's almost entertaining, this comedy of fiftysomethings and their extramarital affairs is one of those films you can actually see flailing for life.
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30Little entertainment value.
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25Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.
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25What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say.
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20Limps into theaters at long last, practically begging, with every arthritic pratfall, to be put out of its misery.
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20The plot feels arbitrary and seems driven to invent new places for its protagonists to go, as if to justify a budget on which Woody Allen could have made six much better films.
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11The script's tone veers chaotically -- and ambitiously -- at once aiming for a Noel Coward kind of elegant sparring, then for the lightly raunchy, rompy absurdism of "What's New, Pussycat?"
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10It's "Shampoo," 30 years after. What a surprise, then, that this effort ranks lower even than the Steve Martin remake of "The Out-of-Towners."
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10Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye.
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10Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that's already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie's ineptitude is almost incomparable.
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