Neatly, the script embarks on one journey while dangling the possibility of another: the prospect of taking a sudden leap from comic reality into the realm of pure imagination.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
15 Jun 2012
fresh:
"Safety Not Guaranteed" is eccentric enough to get mistaken for an uplifting fantasy, but it's Plaza who belongs in the penthouse.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
21 Jun 2012
rotten:
"Safety" can't sustain its own offbeat energy. By the end, even Aubrey Plaza would roll her eyes at it.
– Adam Graham,
Detroit News,
22 Jun 2012
fresh:
Safety Not Guaranteed is droll and hilarious, but there isn't a cheap laugh in it, and the ending is so perfect it sends you soaring.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
22 Jun 2012
fresh:
Plaza and Duplass are enormously watchable, and there's a sweet sadness in the movie's focus on lost dreams and missed chances, and the truism that we all long for a time machine every once in a while.