| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Husband-and-wife team Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa pack the half-hour with oddball characters, zany circumstances and loads of physical comedy, but it's all grounded in enough reality to be utterly believable and irrepressibly funny. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
“Big Day” is marvelously cast, and the actors, especially Wendie Malick, manage, like the cast of “24,” to convey a sense of urgency that almost belongs on the stage. |
| 63 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Normally, this should be as much fun as pulling out your own fingernails, but the cast for the most part makes it tolerable and fun. |
| 60 |
Newsday Verne Gay
A harmless and mostly fun little sitcom. |
| 60 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The larger problem may be whether there's enough material to cover an entire season. |
| 60 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
A lot of this is pretty funny, but for 24 episodes? |
| 50 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"Big Day" doesn't feel like a big hit, but it is intermittently amusing. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Whether you'll want to go the distance with "Big Day" will probably rest on how close you feel to the family. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The show often goes to annoying extremes. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
"Big Day" just doesn't deliver many big laughs. |
| 40 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Too often, “Big Day” evokes the unpleasantness of pre-wedding stress, without mining the nuptial process for creative, original laughs. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Big Day is forced and tiring, although Wendie Malick is a delirious hoot as the bride's pushy mom. |
| 40 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Despite its formal ambition, "Big Day" is disappointingly ordinary. |
| 38 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39] |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The question, still open, is whether the writers can pack enough comic caffeine into the next 21 weeks to keep viewers along for the ride. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The show is all structure and no substance. |
| 30 |
Washington Post Teresa Wiltz
"Big Day"... doesn't have an original bone in its carefully constructed body, which would be a pardonable offense if it were actually funny. Which, alas, it is not. |
| 30 |
Variety
With too many one-note jokes and characters, insufficient barrel laughs and too much controlled chaos, "Big Day" will be lucky if it even makes it to the afternoon let alone a walk down the aisle. |
| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Big Day has no likable characters. [1 Dec 2006, p.72] |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
One of the most puzzling things about TV this year is the mere existence of this catastrophe. It is a huge, huge pile. |
| 10 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Big Day should be retitled "The Longest Day," as it spends an entire season showing us how many dreadfully unfunny complications can spoil a single wedding day. |
| 10 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The situations are predictable, the writing is unfunny and the cast is forced to overplay every scene in hopes of generating something resembling a chuckle. |
| 10 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
A stinking pile of unlikely plot twists, brain-dead dialogue and cardboard characters. |
| 10 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
"Big Day" is basically bad community theater with music clearances. |
| 10 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
[A] laugh-free comedy. |
