| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
Director Ken Kwapis uses those monster infants perfectly, down to a funny final outtake.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
The fact that License to Wed isn't as unbearable as its trailers make it look doesn't mean it's good. It's not. It's just another mediocre addition -- worse than the best sitcoms, better than the worst.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Rev. Robin Williams goes from mildly comic to downright creepy.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bland and boring.
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| 50 |
Film Threat
Zack Haddad
It isn’t the worst romantic comedy I have ever seen.
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| 50 |
USA Today
The characters and plot lack even a shred of credibility.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Uneven but occasionally funny.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
The creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like "Meet the Parents" with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
It goes without saying that this will be no everyday marriage class, not with a hyperactive Williams setting the curriculum.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Williams' grimace is starting to look desperate. Then again, no one comes off well in director Ken Kwapis' handling of this greasy screenplay.
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| 38 |
TV Guide
The outtakes that accompany the end credits suggest that making the movie was a blast; it's a shame the same can't be said for watching it.
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| 38 |
Premiere
Stephen Saito
Krasinski and Moore are an adorable couple, but marriage material they aren't, especially since they're given a mere ten minutes to form a full-fledged relationship before Williams breathlessly barges into the picture.
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| 33 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Krasinski knows how to play off Williams--his pained looks are all too appropriate in the face of Williams' desperate shtick--but it's disillusioning to see him here, because he seems too smart for this film.
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| 30 |
Variety
Pic is at best a relatively harmless way to enjoy air conditioning for those who admire Williams' ability to riff, even at his most irritating.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Dreadful excuse for an unromantic comedy.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Director Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) gives this script by many hands a certain gloss it doesn't deserve.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
The movie is a pastiche of tortured slapstick, groan-inducing dialogue and a lethal dose of treacle, apparently awaiting one of Williams' trademark sprees of riffing and vamping to save the day. That moment never comes, however.
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| 30 |
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
The inert License to Wed shambles along one lame scene after another.
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| 25 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Forget about "Saw," "Hostel" and all the other films in the new, notorious torture-porn genre. If you're looking for a really sick movie, check out License to Wed.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Watching Robin Williams as a pastor giving premarital counseling to lovebirds John Krasinski and Mandy Moore in License to Wed is like having a laugh chastity belt cinched up tight around your funny bone.
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| 25 |
ReelViews
This movie is bad from top to bottom, front to back, and start to finish.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Nothing in this film -- even Robin Williams, alas -- is funny.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
If unused spit takes, flubbed dialogue, and extra improvisation are so uproarious, why not give us 90 minutes of that? License to Wed is tolerable for about five.
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| 20 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Working from a flawed premise with characters lacking credibility and plot turns more moronic than funny, the movie flatlines in about five minutes.
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| 20 |
Empire
Tony Horkins
If ever there was lawful impediment for a marriage to not go ahead, it's this mess of a movie.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
The only thing that kept me watching License to Wed until the end (apart from being paid to do so) was the faith, perhaps misplaced, that I will not see a worse movie this year.
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| 8 |
Portland Oregonian
An atrocious Robin Williams vehicle that might be Hollywood's first anti-romantic comedy.
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| 0 |
Salon.com
Mary Elizabeth Williams
One unbelievably crappy movie.
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| 0 |
Christian Science Monitor
A sham.
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| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle
There's bad, there's awful and there's horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy -- where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren't funny -- is License to Wed, the latest ghastly exercise starring Robin Williams.
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