When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.
The Brass Teapot too often devolves into stale slapstick ...
– Stephanie Zacharek,
NPR,
4 Apr 2013
rotten:
Ms. Mosley, who directed from a screenplay by Tim Macy, struggles to fill her debut feature with a slender notion, but the premise defeats her, even if the story operates at the outset on the pleasure principle.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
4 Apr 2013
rotten:
Without a human dimension to ground its construct, "The Brass Teapot" ultimately feels like an interminably stretched-out skit rather than a storybook lesson stained with blood and hurt.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr 2013
rotten:
Temple and Angarano, entertaining enough, never quite sell the idea that this goodhearted couple would be so easily transformed by greed.
– Sara Stewart,
New York Post,
5 Apr 2013
rotten:
A comic fable that squanders its twisted-fairy-tale concept.