Instead of skewering self-important stars and vapid journalists, Friends gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor.
– Scott Bowles,
USA Today,
3 Oct 2008
rotten:
What was good enough for the printed page -- a comic chronicle of our obsession with the shallow -- has been turned into the object of its own derision.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
3 Oct 2008
rotten:
It plays like a made-for-CBS redo of The Devil Wears Prada.
– Robert Wilonsky,
Village Voice,
3 Oct 2008
rotten:
Just because you are supposed to laugh doesn't mean you are going to laugh.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
7 Nov 2008
fresh:
Where the movie succeeds is in its sudden right turns, its willingness to kill a dog, always a bold choice, and its consistent emphasis of the comedy over the romance.