In the dying days of an era when "big city" has been a relative term, the sales-convention comedy "Cedar Rapids" is a loving tribute to American innocence.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
18 Feb 2011
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Cedar Rapids takes an inordinate number of wrong turns, but it also has an inordinate number of good laughs mixed in with the not-so-good ones.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 Feb 2011
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Considering it has to do with infidelity, bribery, drugs, drinking, loutish behavior, fraud and prostitution, Cedar Rapids is really kind of a sweet movie.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
18 Feb 2011
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These folk are undistinguished yet distinctive, and the film, for all the familiar grind of its plotting, pays them their honest due.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
28 Feb 2011
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More man-child high-jinks in a comedy which seems to be looking down its nose at smalltown America's terminally unhip, but proves good-hearted and delivers enough laughter to seal the deal.