TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

For all its contrivances, the film is cheerfully rude and surprisingly generous to the mothers, most of whom find sizzling new romances at an age when their American counterparts are reduced to sexless dithering or played as humiliating punch lines to jokes about horny old hags.

San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson

Pleasant, light-hearted fun that's soft, not edgy, but lest you think it's a Spanish "Birdcage," consider that Forque's nymphomaniac, who gives way to her urges "in the worst moments, and with the least appropriate people," seduces her son's fiancee by "accident."

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

The movie has no higher ambition than to please a crowd; the fact that it easily does is proof of the world's heartening capacity for change.

L.A. Weekly by John Patterson

Although not quite as uproarious or as wickedly subversive as Pedro Almodóvar's more substantial body of work, Queens is content to scamper gaily in the wake of his achievements -- and to offer one more reason for old Franco to roll anew in his grave.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White

The cast is perfect, but the script is like a low ceiling, keeping a lid on what should have been a confluence of riotous misadventures.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

Veteran director Manuel Gomez-Pereira (Boca a Boca, Between Your Legs) falls short of the manic screwball farce he was aiming for.

The New York Times

The most remarkable thing about Queens, a silly but generous Spanish farce from the writer and director Manuel Gómez Pereira, is its unadulterated worship of middle-aged women.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

The most remarkable thing about Queens, a silly but generous Spanish farce from the writer and director Manuel Gómez Pereira, is its unadulterated worship of middle-aged women.

Entertainment Weekly by Scott Brown

A threadbare crazy-quilt of Spanish sex comedies, Queens wants desperately to be "Women on the Verge of a Big Gay Wedding."

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

Pereira goes in for lots of time shifts and split screens, piling on the contrivances like so many costume baubles when a single string of pearls would do.

Variety by Jonathan Holland

A lively, well-packaged but meaningless amusement.

Village Voice

The seasoned actresses are grand enough, but what a waste: Rather than elevate the material, they amplify its banalities.

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

It's the kind of sprawling ensemble piece that screams out for a Pedro Almodovar, but in the absence of an Almodovar it simply screams out -- in persistent, tedious intervals.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

There's potential here, but the script is entirely too, shall we say, Hollywood. There's even a dog-poop joke.