For a Good Time, Call... (2012)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 58 | Rotten: 46
Brisk, funny, and sweetly raunchy, For a Good Time, Call... adds to the recent string of R-rated female comedies while serving as an overdue coming out party for the charming Ari Graynor.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 15
Brisk, funny, and sweetly raunchy, For a Good Time, Call... adds to the recent string of R-rated female comedies while serving as an overdue coming out party for the charming Ari Graynor.
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The reserved Lauren and the irrepressible Katie are polar opposites... and past enemies. But when both come up short on the funds needed to afford their dream New York City apartment a mutual friend re-introduces them and they reluctantly agree to room together. These apartment-mates have nothing in common - until Lauren discovers that Katie is working as a phone-sex operator, and recognizes a good business opportunity. But as their business partnership takes off, their newfound friendship finds
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Ari Graynor
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Lauren Anne Miller
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Lawrence Mandley
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Eddie Geller
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Josh Rubin
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Steve Shaw
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Mimi Rogers
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Seth Rogen
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Martha MacIsaac
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All Critics (104) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (47) | DVD (2)
Watching [Travis] add his kitschy touch to such a witless, faux-edgy movie can only be described as a Travis-ty.
Top CriticUnfortunately Travis lacks the comedic skill and humanistic insight to make this anything more than Judd Apatow lite.
A fun, healthy, sexy comedy that pulls no punches and focuses on a realistic female friendship and the powerful dynamic that sexuality plays in our lives.
The film is worth seeing for the humor and for its high level of energy, but it falls short of being the "complete package."
Is it one for the ages? No. Is it a good time? Good enough.
The film (a) is not recommended for the prudish and (b) does not live up to its title.
the concept was rife with possibilities that could synergize with Graynor's fresh appeal as well as her rising-star status. Neither the possibilities nor the synergy happens, mainly due to an underdeveloped story.
Sure, there's some ribald humor, and the subject matter is clearly edgy. However, it's really a sweet story of friendship wrapped in a sexy package.
Taking the same concept as Two Broke Girls and taking it on all sorts of joyfully dirty tangents, the movie rarely fails to deliver the good time promised in the title.
Ari Gaynor, already hot, but just getting warmed up
short on laughs and high on vulgarity
For a Good Time, Call... is one of those pleasant surprises sometimes experienced in the cinema when the Gods of Celluloid, reading your attendance as a sign of defeat, take pity and alchemise the material you'd braced yourself to despise.
Tedious and repellent: avoid.
If there's one thing more annoying than the dumb mainstream sex comedy, it's the dumb mainstream sex comedy that has aspirations towards indie funk.
Colourful direction and sparky performances help make this friendship comedy watchable, although it never seems like a finished film.
The film keeps trying to be filthy and outrageous, but is actually rather timid.
What saves this ultimately charming indie... from its inescapable sitcomishness and an over-reliance on some tired stereotypes is that it does manage genuine cuteness in a realm that has enormous potential to be icky and crude.
Ari Graynor and Lauren Anne Miller are great as the sassy pair and despite a veneer of sex, in truth the film is more about friendship.
Disarmingly sweet, defending the girls' enterprise and friendship in the face of all judgment.
Transcends the more pat aspects of its story, connecting in fun fashion by sheer force of personality.
Has emotional authenticity and a decent laugh quotient, but overall enjoyment is marred by general ridiculous and unresolved sub-plots.
Earns points for focusing on the central female friendship and for its refreshingly frank and breezy attitude to sex, though it's slightly let down by a late-arriving plot development that fails to fully convince.
Think American Pie (without the sight gags) meets Sex and the City (without the gloss) and you've got this, a girls-on-top comedy that's all spit and no polish.
For A Good Time delivers, yes, exactly that.
[It] sports such a puppy-ish desire to be liked, but for a really good time, you'd be better off just watching Bridesmaids again.
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