For a Good Time, Call... Reviews
Tampa Bay Times
Save the money you might spend for a ticket to see For a Good Time, Call... and just read a dive bar's restroom wall for free. That's the sub-level of comedy here, with a litany of crude sexual euphemisms and phallic images passed off as jokes.
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| Original Score: F
Creative Loafing
While the film still earns a recommendation, a better buildup and a few more potent gags might have elevated this from bridesmaid status in the comedy genre to Bridesmaids status as an across-the-board hit.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Salt Lake Tribune
Graynor confidently graduates from best-friend roles to a witty, wise-cracking and hilariously sexy leading lady.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Times-Picayune
A phoned-in sex comedy that arrives with all the charm and warmth of a wrong number
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top CriticUnfortunately Travis lacks the comedic skill and humanistic insight to make this anything more than Judd Apatow lite.
Las Vegas Weekly
Consistently tries too hard, one-upping itself with mostly unfunny vulgarity while paying little attention to plot or believable character development.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The movie gets a lot of mileage out of the appeal of its two stars. Miller and Graynor work well together and cultivate an authentic, even touching, relationship.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
There's a difference between comedy and behavior. For a Good Time, Call... aims for the former but mostly contains the latter.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
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| Original Score: B+
Shockya.com
Accept this Call, it's well worth it.
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| Original Score: B+
indieWIRE
It's easy to give into its charms.
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| Original Score: B
Cinemalogue.com
The thin but amusing concept is bolstered by the performances of its two spunky protagonists.
The film is worth seeing for the humor and for its high level of energy, but it falls short of being the "complete package."
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Austin Chronicle
Graynor has delivered reliable comedic backup before, stealing the show in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the otherwise dreckful What's Your Number?. Here, she's second to no one.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Blu-ray.com
Only undone by its pedestrian screenwriting, which is so slavish to formula, it comes to destroy the big screen party director Jamie Travis is fighting to maintain.
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| Original Score: C
Is it one for the ages? No. Is it a good time? Good enough.
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| Original Score: B-
The film (a) is not recommended for the prudish and (b) does not live up to its title.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Philadelphia Daily News
A shallow movie with nothing new besides than the exalatation of the bonds of female friendship.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The film is a wobbly attempt to follow in the stilettos of "Bridesmaids," but its tissue-sharp punch lines and undernourished characters fall woefully short.
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| Original Score: 1/4
