The Guilt Trip Reviews

To its detriment, The Guilt Trip opts to work gently on the heart rather than hard on the funny bone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Does it give it away where I'm coming from that I "invited" my son to join me at the screening of this mother/son road comedy? I mean, it was demographic research. Really. You shouldn't worry. We both had a good time.

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Silly and nice, basically unfunny but basically innocuous—so as satisfying as your average leftovers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

I was thankful it grew enough on me that I didn't end up pulling all of my hair out while watching it unfold, but I don't think I'll be taking another ride with 'The Guilt Trip' again. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)

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Get in out of the cold and enjoy a family fun evening checking out "Guilt Trip", it's the funniest trip of 2012.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A breezy, funny and warm road-trip comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand make a snappy comic duo in this road movie about a tetchy mother-son relationship.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

This film completely surrenders to its premise, with everything else following in a predictable way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Tame but thoroughly flat The Guilt Trip is a film whose cleverness begins and ends with that title. Call it the mother of all disappointments.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The Guilt Trip is clearly targeted at older audiences less than receptive to the crude jokes that made Seth Rogen famous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It zigs when you expect it to zag. It's perceptive and thoughtful as it swerves around potholes that easily could have broken an axle.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The film's feel-good message is undermined by its ultimate purpose: As a vindication of the rights of Jewish mothers to annoy their children as much as they please.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

It takes more than a few wrong turns. And once you've reached the end, you have no urge to ever do it again.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's everything you'd expect in a mother-son road trip comedy starring the profane Rogen and the smart-mouthed diva Streisand. And less.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The movie could have been made with random basic-cable actors, and it would have been just as unremarkable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Streisand nudges, Rogan does a slow burn, and neither of them has a mean bone in their bodies [in a] paean to mothers who mean well, and sons who know the truth of that deep in their hearts, somewhere under the embarrassment, confusion, and guilt.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Mothers and sons deserve an amiable comedy they can share, but this one is faulty long before the requisite freeway breakdown.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

While Streisand and Rogen's relationship is smartly, affectionately drawn, just about every other element of the movie feels perfunctory ...

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Stereotypical mother-son comedy is predictably corny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

[It] doesn't take every predictable detour, but it takes enough that the movie never ceases to feel overly familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4