| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Cheerful and unpretentious.
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| 60 |
Film.com
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.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
Chris Koseluk
You'll forget it tomorrow, but it's fun while it lasts.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
The only thing more disappointing than a truly awful film is a merely weak one that has some really fun moments.
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| 50 |
Newsweek
Anjali Arora
Offers easy wisdom and light-hearted fun.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Feeble and formulaic.
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| 50 |
USA Today
The conclusion is a sweet bit of frosting on an otherwise unremarkable confection.
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| 50 |
TNT RoughCut
Daysun Chang
A wildly silly goose chase.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A pretty lame premise for a movie.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Too bad the movie concentrates on the male point of view because it kicks to life when Zellweger is on screen.
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| 38 |
New York Post
So unremittingly vulgar and inept it makes "The Best Man" and "Runaway Bride" look like masterpieces by comparison.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Out of place, out of time and out of its own cultural context.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
Seriously undermined by its sour tone and an unusually charmless performance by star Chris O'Donnell.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Viewers have almost two hours to become thoroughly disgusted.
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| 30 |
Variety
A remarkably mirthless and inept romantic comedy.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
It's up to O'Donnell to carry the show, and he's simply not up to the task.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An innocuous waste-of-time.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
Painfully unfunny.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
Betsy Sherman
A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
The mood is ruined by the bitchy 1990s stereotyping of the husband hunters.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Catalog of ugly female stereotypes and rotten jokes.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
A flat-footed film.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
This is one movie best left unattached.
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| 10 |
Mr. Showbiz
Hellish matrimonial misfire.
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