All Over the Guy

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The movie's entertaining for some wickedly funny situations and witticisms.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

While both leads are appealing enough, it's the stuff on the sidelines that keeps All Over the Guy entertaining.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Surprisingly, this didactic and self-consciously clever romantic comedy isn't annoying -- it's refreshing, moving, and at times quite funny.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

Davis, with a nicely turned and witty screenplay from Bucatinsky, freshens up the familiar predicament by having her two lovers recount the affair to a stranger.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A romantic comedy of wit and substance that actor-writer Dan Bucatinsky and director Julie Davis have moved gracefully from stage to screen with a change of title and sexual orientation.

Variety Joe Leydon

Lightweight but likable romantic comedy about two mismatched gay singletons who are, of course, made for each other.

Chicago Tribune Loren King

Snappy but sappy romantic comedy.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

It's still trite and a little too cutesy for its own good. Gay or straight, the cliches remain, but not to a stultifying degree.

Austin Chronicle Steve Davis

A delight when its comic elements are in high gear.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

The film leaves an acrid taste with the viewer who sits through its long and winding tale of tortured courtship.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

This modest picture is distinguished by some marvelously bitchy dialogue.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Little more than a screenful of boy meets boy, boy meets baggage, boy loses baggage.

San Francisco Chronicle Wesley Morris

If you want to watch a gaggle of pretty faux-neurotic people hang out and throw quips, you're probably better off watching "Friends."

New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein

The redeeming features of All Over the Guy are the consistently engaging performances and some genuinely funny dialogue.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

May be free of gay stereotypes, but it's absolutely riddled with romantic cliches. It's hard to see the progress in that.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

Some kind of equality has been achieved when it is impossible to distinguish heterosexual clichés from homosexual ones.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

Sitcom humor substitutes for wit, and tedious angst supplies the drama.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The movie means well, but neither its emotions nor its performances ring very true.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Indulges in some of the crudest Jewish stereotypes seen in a recent movie, right down to the crack about every Jewish girl having a nose job.

Village Voice Edward Crouse

A painfully earnest case of generic romance spiced with queerness.