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Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people.
The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robert Zemeckis.
The Coen Brothers do provide enough of a diversion with bits and pieces of wacko casting, and with the deranged details of dress and makeup of their fleeting gargoyles, to make the proceedings at least moderately amusing.
This dim-witted, mean-spirited and brain-dead calamity should surprise no one.
[T]here's a lot of problems with the script, and some of the stuff with Edward Herrmann I don't think works at all, it's not funny it just kind of falls flat. But Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, I think they deliver enough to say it's worth seeing.
No different from most of the other dumb slapstick spoofs that pass for screwball comedy these days.
Screwball comedy for older teens and adults.
A competent bit of work from which striking originality and idiosyncrasy have mostly been pruned away.
This is the Coens dabbling in the mainstream, and bending it to their will.
A conventional Hollywood comedy boasting a bolder indie heart, the film essentially combines the worst of both worlds.
The Coensâ(TM) first mainstream romantic comedy is a superb hijacking of an ailing art form -- short, sharp and frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious.
As Miles, Clooney doesn't make any direct emotional appeal to the audience and yet his high style is so smashingly effective that Miles stands open to us: macher, lover, patsy.
Destined to rank among the Coens' least memorable achievements.
A fun romp, thanks largely to the deft work of its two leads.
[Ce film] est tout ce que l'on ne veut pas voir les Coen faire dans leur futur, mais aussi le genre de comédie romantique que l'on souhaiterait voir plus souvent.
The script is whip-smart. The Coens come closer to the zaniness of their greatest comedy, Raising Arizona, then they have in all of their movies since then.
Despite the inconsistent script and low tone, this has many funny moments. If you can forget the negative view it takes of mankind, itâ(TM)s entertaining because of the performances of Clooney, Zeta Jones, and the rest of the cast.
The Coens ... have taken a typically trite target for ridicule and splayed it out for an attack from outer space, where Coen brothers scripts tend to originate.
Has worthwhile moments, including an excellent performance by [George] Clooney, but the plotting is contrived.
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