| 90 |
Variety
Lael Lowenstein
An engaging, often very funny fish-out-of-water story that provides Hugh Grant with his best part to date.
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| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Has a slight bite.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
Grant handles the slapstick humor gracefully and speaks his lines with sincerity and warmth.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Rod Dreher
An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit.
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| 70 |
Time
Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
The last half hour bogs down badly, with a cynical fake-out ending and a final scene that borders on non-sensical.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Anjali Arora
Though the movie suffers from an underdeveloped plot, it does benefit from solid acting.
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| 63 |
USA Today
The beauty here is in the set-up, which offers Hugh Grant a role to match his star-making turn in "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
While Grant is sublime, the "Godfather" spoof he's in sleeps with the fishes.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
A bland also-ran in a post-"Sopranos" universe.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Many of the gags rely on the incongruity of Grant's nervous, cultured character posing as an Italian-American stereotype, but they're subverted by his earnest relationship with his fiancee, whose affection hardly seems worth the trouble.
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| 59 |
Mr. Showbiz
Richard T. Jameson
The farce hits the fan, and you just wait for the thing to be over.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Never lets Grant develop his pidgin-Italian nice-guy-gone-sociopath routine.
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| 50 |
Portland Oregonian
A lifeless, confused mess, peppered with laughs, yes, but illogically and crudely plotted and smothered in tonedeaf music cues.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
More than adequate performances by Grant and Caan, who play off each other with a relative degree of aplomb.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
With preposterously convoluted plot twists, not even Grant is enough to make us smile all the way through the end.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
An abbondanza of busy, situation comedy twists that snip one's suspended disbelief and send it crashing like a chandelier.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
As insulting as taking the queen to the Olive Garden.
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| 50 |
Dallas Observer
Scott Kelton Jones
All set-up, no soul... Nothing here is that inspired, that clever.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
After the bite and freshness of "Analyze This," Mickey Blue Eyes plays like an afterthought.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
It strains to hard for laughs, with stale jokes about unweildy corpses.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Moviegoers tired of ethnic humor will find plenty to complain about.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
What begins as an entertainingly contrived lark soon feels like a poorly plotted muddle.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A sour misfire.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Atrocious comedy.
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