The Lonely Guy Reviews
Top CriticMartin's trademark wacky humor is fitfully in evidence, but seems much more repressed than usual in order to fit into the relatively realistic world of single working people.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A mindless comedy that's about as funny as a life sentence in solitary confinement.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The kind of movie that seems to have been made to play in empty theaters on overcast January afternoons.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
It tries a little bit of everything, and winds up with an air of messy desperation.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Spirituality and Practice
An inventive comic meditation on being single.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema em Cena
Alternando o besteirol e a comédia de situações, o filme é consistentemente engraçado e surpreendentemente sensível. Um dos melhores da carreira de Steve Martin.
| Original Score: 5/5
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Martin and pathos just don't mix.
| Original Score: 2/5
Countingdown.com
Very funny, early Steve Martin comedy. Has some great bits including a gag with spary-on sweat and another with cardboard stand-ups doubling as friends for lonely guys. Not Martin's funniest film, but it's up there.
| Original Score: 3/5
Arthur Hiller's direction exudes a flavorless professionalism, a quality that doesn't count for much in this context.
