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It's as conventional as its Midwestern setting, but Cedar Rapids boasts a terrific cast and a script that deftly blends R-rated raunch and endearing sweetness.
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Everyone does good work here, but for Helms this is a breakout role, and he delivers. Cedar Rapids is a modest but disarming comedy that will leave a smile on your face... Jun 23, 2011
Everyone does good work here, but for Helms this is a breakout role, and he delivers. Cedar Rapids is a modest but disarming comedy that will leave a smile on your face...
Leonard Maltin
It's funny, offensive, well acted and pointless. May 1, 2011 | Full Review…
It's funny, offensive, well acted and pointless.
Philip French
Cedar Rapids slowly squanders its apparently fruitful set-up, heading towards a weak, sappy ending that tries for sweetness, but leaves a sickly saccharine aftertaste. Apr 28, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Cedar Rapids slowly squanders its apparently fruitful set-up, heading towards a weak, sappy ending that tries for sweetness, but leaves a sickly saccharine aftertaste.
Andrew Pulver
Its breezy charm papers over narrative cracks and minor annoyances. Apr 28, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Its breezy charm papers over narrative cracks and minor annoyances.
Paul O'Callaghan
It's beautifully acted, well-observed and very funny. Apr 28, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
It's beautifully acted, well-observed and very funny.
Derek Malcolm
More man-child high-jinks in a comedy which seems to be looking down its nose at smalltown America's terminally unhip, but proves good-hearted and delivers enough laughter to seal the deal. Apr 27, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
More man-child high-jinks in a comedy which seems to be looking down its nose at smalltown America's terminally unhip, but proves good-hearted and delivers enough laughter to seal the deal.
Trevor Johnston
Isn't a blazingly original comedy, but it has such a nice, tender-hearted feel to it I was won over and charmed. Aug 30, 2018 | Full Review…
Isn't a blazingly original comedy, but it has such a nice, tender-hearted feel to it I was won over and charmed.
Deborah Ross
Ed Helms delivers some dialed-down, hilarious moments that never feel like second-rate gags. Jan 29, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Ed Helms delivers some dialed-down, hilarious moments that never feel like second-rate gags.
Kiko Martinez
Not as funny as it seems to think it is, but there are considerable pleasures to be found around the margins. May 3, 2015
Not as funny as it seems to think it is, but there are considerable pleasures to be found around the margins.
Sean Burns
a fun little movie that really strikes a balance between comfortable friendliness and crazy silliness Sep 16, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
a fun little movie that really strikes a balance between comfortable friendliness and crazy silliness
Kevin Carr
The risks Cedar Rapids takes may not always pay off, but as a general rule, I would advise spending 86 minutes of your life with the movie rather than the city itself. Jun 28, 2013 | Full Review…
The risks Cedar Rapids takes may not always pay off, but as a general rule, I would advise spending 86 minutes of your life with the movie rather than the city itself.
Violet Lucca
While this isn't destined to be remembered as a great standout comedy ... it is still guaranteed to provide a few giggles and knee-slaps. Sep 27, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
While this isn't destined to be remembered as a great standout comedy ... it is still guaranteed to provide a few giggles and knee-slaps.
Matt Looker
The idea is fine - a shy underachieving insurance salesman goes to a convention in the big city (of Cedar Rapids?). But I found the movie painful to watch.
Super Reviewer
I know that feel when something trust isn't real. But I think that's not the answer.
Actually funnier than I expected. But I also expected something more I guess.
[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] There is no doubting that Cedar Rapids has a talented cast that if given the right material are completely capable of making you laugh out loud, the film isn't as funny as it could have been. However my main problem with it was that it struggled to choose what kind of comedy it wanted to be. It tries to be sweet one minute and decides to be incredibly raunchy the next (very much so when it comes to John C Reilly's corrupted, hilarious and insanely infectious character) and quite often it sways between completely different genres, at times becoming awkwardly stupid as opposed to being actually funny. It certainly has it's moments of good laughs, it's quirky, ambitious, heartfelt, features a good Ed Helms performance, but in the end it simply doesn't add up to very much. I couldn't really recognise it as the final cut to be honest. In the end I felt that in it's entirety it's strange tone and it's peculiar but ambitious structure intrigued me enough to reward it a very slight recommendation. But although it has about 40 minutes of ambition, it eventually gives up and resorts to typical rauchfest conventions.
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