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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBranagh shows us the comedy of a man who is too clever to understand that in the guise of dreading fatherhood, he is really at war with how much he longs for it.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThat's a lot just to justify a cute title, but cuteness is the engine driving the slight, obvious but occasionally very funny film.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenReminds us that when it comes to comedy, it's all in the writing. Mr. Kalesniko's satirically barbed screenplay, whose spirit harks back to the comic heyday of Blake Edwards, stirs up an insistent verbal energy that rarely flags.
- 50New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannWithout Branagh's pitch-perfect comedic skills the entire movie could have been crushed under the avalanche of quips and wisecracks tumbling from Kalesniko's too-clever-by-half pen.
- 40New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinFact is, there is nothing feloniously awful about the whole thing, but the laughs are tepid and too infrequent.
- 40L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmA movie with a lot on its plate, but nothing interesting on its mind.
- 30The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinA pathetic wallow, first in misanthropy and later in sentimentality.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA dreary title for an even drearier picture.
- 20Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAfter missing the film on the small screen the first time around, I recently watched it on video, and can only conclude that my screen wasn't small enough.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceNext to this, even "Mean Machine's" painless soft-tissue spikings and fast-fixing broken limbs are believable -- and way funnier.