| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
You haven't heard anything until you've heard "Play That Funky Music" on the accordion.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Didn't work this time, David. Maybe next season.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
It's larded with blinding glimpse-of-the-obvious homilies.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Whatever It Takes is DOA -- dated on arrival.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Populated by ersatz versions of stars who, in this case, are fairly vanilla to begin with.
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| 40 |
Film.com
It's a notch above average, but Whatever It Takes can't get too far above that notch.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
It's still got some panache.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
A teen comedy so stupid that a long nose -- perhaps with a red bulb on it -- actually would have helped.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It involves teenagers who have never existed, doing things no teenager has ever done, for reasons no teenager would understand. Of course, it's aimed at the teenage market.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
If the teen in your life drags you along to this movie, act like you're doing him a favor -- and try not to let on that you sort of liked it.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
So derivative and crass that it's far more entertaining to try to think of the dozens of films it's ripping off than it is to take any of it at face value.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Chris Hewitt
There's a movie opening today that is so indistinctive I can barely remember its name.
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| 25 |
New York Post
An assembly-line high-school comedy that flunks miserably in all three subjects.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
Pretty lame stuff. Already it seems to be passing with the speed of light into the limbo of utterly forgettable "who-will-I-take-to-the-prom?" movies.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
Yet another leaden, witless, cliché-drunk, teen romantic comedy starring the preposterously good-looking stars of mediocre TV series.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
Bearable only because, unlike the recent spate of teen films, it's so breezy it barely even registers.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
A. O. Scott
A thinly veiled "Cyrano," with the prom in mind.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
It's guys like Floyd who make a movie like Whatever It Takes feel like high school. And the rest of the losers make it feel like a movie.
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| 10 |
Variety
Makes little impression and is sure to leave few memories for a teen.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Drivel of the purest ray serene.
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| 0 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
If you can summon up the resolve to search, there is not a single honest moment in all of Whatever It Takes.
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| 0 |
Chicago Reader
Disingenuously naive romantic comedy.
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