For a Good Time, Call... Reviews
Top CriticWatching [Travis] add his kitschy touch to such a witless, faux-edgy movie can only be described as a Travis-ty.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Unfortunately 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.
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| Original Score: B+
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
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
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
This hot-pink and leopard-print take on a familiar formula is so energetic and self-assured that it powers past its predictability.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The confusion in For a Good Time, Call... is delightful, the phone-sex talk sweetening the vibe.
It's the movie's affectionate portrait of female friendship, along with Miller and Graynor's loose, playful performances, that make this whole imperfect soufflé rise as high as it does.
It's a showcase for writing that doesn't dazzle and a story of self-discovery that reveals no new insights.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Adheres to those familiar, looping patterns of joy, rancor and revelation that everyone, in the age of Final Draft, have come to expect of a standard comic screenplay.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Boasts almost the same degree of intellectual heft, moral nuance and philosophical rigour as a sitcom.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Travis, making his feature debut, gets very likable performances out of his female stars.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Could a genuinely good, or genuinely funny, movie ever be made about two girls who operate a phone-sex line?
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
In a rare instance of truth in advertising, this movie actually is a good time.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
[It] doesn't aspire to be more than a broad, sloppy, old-fashioned sitcom with a sexy gimmick. But it is quite funny, and at the screening I attended, the loudest laughs came from young women in the audience.
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| Original Score: 3/5
It feels like a movie you've seen already - and it was better the first time around.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Have we really come a long way from chick flicks about women expressing friendship by nursing each other though divorce, cancer and other common losses, to movies in which women can only express love through a windy haze of carnal chatter?
Just like the erotic fantasies that the film's leads peddle, you don't have to buy into the central conceit to enjoy yourself.
When it tires of the familiar setup and character dynamic, it delivers a minor surprise that makes both these women more interesting and complicated than they were a scene ago.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Despite some earnest laughs and a sincere heart, Call can't seem to rise above its TV sitcom styling.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The most adorably filthy movie you may ever see, "For a Good Time, Call..." marks a promising feature debut for acclaimed short-film director Jamie Travis and writers Katie Anne Naylon and Lauren Miller.
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| Original Score: 3/5
[A] witty comic romp that isn't afraid to show its heart along with its naughty bits.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Travis keeps things moving so briskly, you find yourself not minding how by-the-numbers the story is. And then within that by-the-numbers story, there end up being enough surprises and subversive twists that you find yourself unexpectedly charmed.
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| Original Score: 3/4
I'm not objecting to the movie on grounds of taste but because it is stupid, vulgar, crass and mercilessly formulaic.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's Ari Graynor's movie - she's like Kate Hudson possessed by the spirit of Bette Midler. And all the better off for it.
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| Original Score: B
After establishing a sort of Odd Couple-ish character dynamic, the script cleverly subverts it.
What really hurts is seeing Jamie Travis's name attached ...
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| Original Score: 1/5
... not just smart and sexy -- which, to be honest, is rare enough in filmmaking these days -- but it's also got a great deal of humanity and humor.
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| Original Score: 4/5
For a Good Time, Call... doesn't rise much above sitcom level in material or execution, but provides enough laughs and goodwill to be disarmingly entertaining.
Female buddy comedy makes the most of its phone-sex premise.
