Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
There is an affectation that I find particularly annoying, and that is when people choose to perform at a level below their natural intelligence.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
If Lucy Fell is funnier more often than not, and when it's not being funny it's at least being strange. I'll take strange over what most major-distributor comedies are when they're not being funny.
– Jeff Millar,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
All coy grins and daffy mugging, Mr. Stiller plays the role as if aspiring to become the Elliott Gould of his generation. Compared with jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, that's a reasonable goal.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
A bleak, annoyingly quirky Gen-X recasting of the When Harry Met Sally notion that true love is based on friendship.