The Guilt Trip Reviews
COEDMagazine.com
Rogen's deadpan misery meshes well with Streisand's oblivious idiocy, making the laughs roll in.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Film Racket
On paper, it must have seemed like a solid idea
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| Original Score: 2/5
Movie Habit
Contrived and mostly medicore, but may satisfy Streisand fans
Observer [UK]
It's all kvetch this and kvetch that, with few jokes or amusing encounters ...
Radio Times
It never quite delivers juggernaut-sized laughs, but the sharp-tongued sparring between the two leads pops and fizzes throughout, with Streisand in particular showing she's still an intuitive and naturalistic comedian.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
Streisand has lost little of her gawky, pesky touch in comedy, while Rogen knows just how to be the charmingly daft slob.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Contactmusic.com
Rogen plays the science nerd Andrew, who has just invented an organic cleaning product and is taking a cross-country trip to find a buyer. In a moment of weakness, he invites his meddling mother Joyce (Streisand).
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Sun Online
Barbra's speed-yapping makes her mollycoddling mum Joyce even more annoying than she is supposed to be.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
What we're left with is a bafflingly dull road movie. Maybe Alexander Payne could have done something with this.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Financial Times
It is the makers who should feel guilty.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ViewLondon
Enjoyable mother-son road movie that swerves the potential potholes of broad or outrageous comedy in favour of an engaging, emotionally convincing and ultimately moving portrait of the central relationship ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
It's been more than fifteen years since Barbra Streisand has taken a lead role in a movie...and after suffering this you can see why.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Birmingham Post
There are OK performances but the cast are better than this. Very occasionally it's vaguely amusing, but it's mostly just annoying or cringeworthy.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Digital Spy
Think of it as a Sunday drive, easy and breezy, with good company to pass the time.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The List
Despite the odds, both stars strike a few sparks in Anne Fletcher's slight comedy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
3AW
You've seen this film already. That's how predictable it is...the film is surprisingly light on laughs.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Screendaily
Small stakes and consistently tame inclinations mark screenwriter Dan Fogelman's effort, which gives off an ambling vibe that would be more at home in an independent production.
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| Original Score: 2.5
Total Film
Only comes to life during a Texan steak-eating contest that has Babs ingest a mountain of meat.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Vine
Some actors you'd pay to watch read the phonebook; turns out it's worth paying to see Streisand eat a steak.
Urban Cinefile
Likeable and entertaining, The Guilt Trip isn't quite the blast it could have been, but it uses the tools of commercial filmmaking to give audiences a lift at the end
