It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

All Critics (127) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (76) | Rotten (53) | DVD (7)

It's Kind of a Funny Story lacks substance, but after you've spent a short time in this ward, you have to agree with Craig: These crazies aren't so bad.

January 31, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Connie Ogle

Miami Herald

Top Critic

A pleasant movie, but no more.

January 5, 2011 Full Review

David Jenkins

Time Out

Top Critic

The journey is aided immeasurably by the casting of Keir Gilchrist as young Craig. He has dark, sensitive eyes and a probity about him that wins you to his side.

November 6, 2010 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the film's co-writing-directing team, are too principled to tip the film into the slacker reaches of sorrow.

October 15, 2010 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

The writing-directing team of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have created a solid mix of serious, darker scenes and flights of fancy.

October 11, 2010 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

The acting is strong, with Galifianakis doing an especially good job as the likeable Bobby.

October 11, 2010 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

El resultado es algo así como un Atrapado sin salida mucho, muchísimo más light, y donde no hay ninguna enfermera Ratched sino que por el contrario todos los personajes son buenos y amables.

December 1, 2011 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

Galifianakis [is] able to turn on a dime; balancing his disarming humour with moments of anguished outbreaks. His is one of the best supporting performances of recent memory; equally funny and heartbreaking. If only I could say the same of the movie.

August 15, 2011 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

For all its problems, though, the film is easy-going, frequently channels into a sweet-natured tone and is able to raise a few chuckles.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Simon Reynolds

Digital Spy

It may not be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but it's also not Patch Adams.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

...runs out of steam about half way through but with a likable cast and an interesting setup you'll want to finish what you started.

March 31, 2011 Full Review

Jonathan W. Hickman

Daily Film Fix

Strives for a sensitively crafted story through the prism of adolescent angst, and the bittersweet vibe of raucous inmates taking over the asylum - when not engaging in lunatic breakfast burrito wars - that is not so bad either.

February 7, 2011 Full Review

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

It's also a kind of two-dimensional romance, a kind of flippant look at life on a mental ward, and (...) kind of made me want to give Zach Galifianakis a hug.

February 1, 2011 Full Review

Mike Edwards

What Culture

The film's central element -- its sensitive exploration of a young teen's emotional confusion -- creates strong audience empathy, however, and gives Fleck and Boden a fertile focus for their signature light-hearted humanist storytelling.

January 27, 2011 Full Review

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

Wavering between affecting dramedy and goofy asylum- com, this is an enjoyable but superficial placebo that soft-soaps the realities of psychological disorder.

January 26, 2011 Full Review

Neil Smith

Total Film

[A] flimsy, box-ticking quirk fest.

January 18, 2011 Full Review

Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

As a self-help sitcom, it feels both glib and icky. Glicky?

January 13, 2011 Full Review

Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph

In the end, like the instantly-forgettable title, it's kind of neither one thing nor the other and certainly no match for the likes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or even Girl, Interrupted.

January 12, 2011 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Post

Boden and Fleck expertly negotiate the fine line between sunny optimism and deepest despair, as Craig's emergence into a renewed love for life is offset by the rather different kind of departure that is delicately hinted for another main character.

January 7, 2011 Full Review

Anton Bitel

Film4

This boy doesn't need therapy or happy pills but a large slap round the chops.

January 7, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

No it's not. It's kind of a rubbish story.

January 6, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

As disposable as a paper cup and, for such promising directors, a serious regression.

January 6, 2011 Full Review

Tom Seymour

Little White Lies

It's a fine teen film - and how often do you see those words in the same sentence?

January 6, 2011 Full Review

David Aldridge

Radio Times

• 1. Craig: Run, travel, swim, skip....yeah I know it's lame but whatever, skip anyway. Breathe. Live.
  – Submitted by Kent H (14 months ago)
• 1. Craig: Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed. That my father beat me, or I was sexually abused. But, my problems are less... dramatic than that.
  – Submitted by Ondreia P (17 months ago)
• 1. Craig: Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed. That my father beat me, or I was sexually abused. But, my problems are less... dramatic than that.
  – Submitted by Ondreia P (17 months ago)
• 1. Joanie: Um, everybody our new guest Craig is having what we call an artistic block. He doesn't know what to draw.
  2. Humble: How 'bout beavers?
  3. Joanie: Humble we don't, uh we don't draw the kind of beavers you're talking about...
  4. Humble: Oh really? (shows picture of beaver)
  5. Joanie: That's... actually nice. I thought it was going to be a vagina, that's nice.
  – Submitted by Melissa I (22 months ago)
• 1. Bobby: All I have to wear to the interview is this sweater.
  2. Humble: It's a nice sweater.
  3. Bobby: No it's not. It smells like a hobo's Band-Aid.
  – Submitted by Deborah W (24 months ago)
• 1. Craig: [During a basketball practice in the hospital] How'd you end up in here?
  2. Bobby: Man, you don't give up, do you? I'm on vacation
  3. Craig: Seriously.
  4. Bobby: I am serious. Some people go to Hamptons. I come here. Get a little R&R. People feed you. I get high sometimes, man.
  5. Craig: That's not what I've heard about you.
  6. Bobby: [sigh] What did you hear?
  7. Craig: Craig: [hesitating a bit] I heard you tried to rape a penguin at the zoo
  8. Bobby: Bobby: [straightening up] Who told you that?
  – Submitted by Lumi A (2 years ago)

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