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83The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.
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A plucky comic valentine for those who love the movies more than their own mothers.
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80It's hard to stop quoting from a movie this good.
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80An Irish lark that blows in, trailing daffodils and the sniff of spring, from that adventurous releasing company Shooting Gallery Films.
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75It has that unwound Roddy Doyle humor; the laughs don't hit you over the head, but tickle you behind the knee.
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75This is only a movie. But a good one. May Roddy Doyle give us many more.
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75A charmer.
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75It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together.
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70Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.
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67There's still enough of Doyle's hilariously foul dialogue and outrageous, culture-shocked Irish characters for the film to be a good bit of fun.
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60About two lives in which transformation is a constant, destabilizing threat to freedom and sanity. That's a very provocative premise, though halfway through the movie Doyle and Walsh abandon its potential to go for easy laughs.
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60Its greatest asset...Flora Montgomery, a flash of blond, Irish fire who makes Trudy well worth Brendan's trouble.
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50McDonald and Montgomery are fun to watch in this mildly amusing Irish romantic comedy.
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50A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title.
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50Poses as the story of a wild, eccentric love match but is really about a match made in limbo.
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50If you're charmed from the outset, this is an enjoyable trifle; if you're not, it never gets any less mannered and convinced of its own wit.
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50It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise.
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Director Kieron J. Walsh never quite figures out what to do with the numerous film references (he quotes dialogue, they reenact scenes), and the resulting uncertainty in tone, which sometimes treats the characters as parodistic products of mass culture, undercuts his later attempts to suggest that their love is authentic.
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42Lacks the perfect timing, luster and true vitality of its predecessors.
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40McDonald makes for an appealingly befuddled bloke, and the sprightly Montgomery would turn any blighter's head. In a better movie, we'd care about what happened to them.
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40Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.
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40Intermittently funny movie. Almost every scene recreates or alludes to a Hollywood or foreign classic.
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38Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.
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30It's the type of film that begs to be called “charming” and by doing so instead ends up grating.
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20Doyle loves bad jokes and his story has no rhyme or reason, dissolving in its last third into a bungled heist and jailhouse face-off.
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