To its detriment, The Guilt Trip opts to work gently on the heart rather than hard on the funny bone.
– James Adams,
Globe and Mail,
21 Dec 2012
fresh:
Rogen and Streisand are reasonably funny together, though Rogen, always best when he's angry, is crowded into the role of a well-mannered straight man.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
21 Dec 2012
rotten:
The Guilt Trip pairs Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand in the hope, no doubt, that sparks will fly. They don't.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 Dec 2012
rotten:
Andrew [Rogen], who has invented an organic cleaning compound, pitches it to retailers in a succession of meetings across the country that have no grounding in any known reality.