How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Village Voice by

Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White

The result is an initially hilarious picture that grows perplexingly trite as screenwriter Peter Straughan transforms Young's sly observations into assembly-line pap.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Best in show is the divine Gillian Anderson as a powerful celebrity publicist, editing the image of her clients in much the same way this adaptation tames Young's much pricklier book.

The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

People's title proves prophetic, only this time the people being alienated are the suckers in the paying audience.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17.

The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he's swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

An embarassingly unfunny, stumblebum adaptation of Toby Young's memoir.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Cleverly titled but noxious British comedy.