50
It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
McDonald and Montgomery are fun to watch in this mildly amusing Irish romantic comedy.
38
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.
50
A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title.
30
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
It's the type of film that begs to be called “charming” and by doing so instead ends up grating.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together.
40
Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
It has that unwound Roddy Doyle humor; the laughs don't hit you over the head, but tickle you behind the knee.
60
About two lives in which transformation is a constant, destabilizing threat to freedom and sanity. That's a very provocative premise, though halfway through the movie Doyle and Walsh abandon its potential to go for easy laughs.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
There's still enough of Doyle's hilariously foul dialogue and outrageous, culture-shocked Irish characters for the film to be a good bit of fun.