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It ranges from awkward to excruciating.
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
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The Amateurs
Overview
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
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19%
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This sort of thing was done much better by the British years ago in The Full Monty and Calendar Girls. There's really no call for an American rehash.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Do not waste your time with The Amateurs.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part.
Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
As a writer, Traeger is consternatingly adolescent and glib.
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly
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