10
Next to this, even "Mean Machine's" painless soft-tissue spikings and fast-fixing broken limbs are believable -- and way funnier.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
40
New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein
Fact is, there is nothing feloniously awful about the whole thing, but the laughs are tepid and too infrequent.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
That's a lot just to justify a cute title, but cuteness is the engine driving the slight, obvious but occasionally very funny film.
20
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
After missing the film on the small screen the first time around, I recently watched it on video, and can only conclude that my screen wasn't small enough.
30
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
A dreary title for an even drearier picture.
50
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
Without Branagh's pitch-perfect comedic skills the entire movie could have been crushed under the avalanche of quips and wisecracks tumbling from Kalesniko's too-clever-by-half pen.
30
A pathetic wallow, first in misanthropy and later in sentimentality.
75
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Branagh shows us the comedy of a man who is too clever to understand that in the guise of dreading fatherhood, he is really at war with how much he longs for it.
40
A movie with a lot on its plate, but nothing interesting on its mind.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Reminds us that when it comes to comedy, it's all in the writing. Mr. Kalesniko's satirically barbed screenplay, whose spirit harks back to the comic heyday of Blake Edwards, stirs up an insistent verbal energy that rarely flags.