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It doesn't honor its source material -- or its immensely likable leads -- as well as it should, but Dinner for Schmucks offers fitfully nourishing comedy.
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It follows a familiar plotline with familiar twists, and while Carell and the gang valiantly try to transcend the material, even they can only go so far. June 7, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It follows a familiar plotline with familiar twists, and while Carell and the gang valiantly try to transcend the material, even they can only go so far.
Matthew Lucas
When it comes to comedy, there's a fine line between making the audience laugh and just making people uncomfortable. Unfortunately, I felt more of the later in Dinner for Schmucks. May 9, 2019 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
When it comes to comedy, there's a fine line between making the audience laugh and just making people uncomfortable. Unfortunately, I felt more of the later in Dinner for Schmucks.
Micheal Compton
It's clear that Dinner for Schmucks is going for a Meet the Parents-style typhoon of misery, but the series of misfortunes that befall Tim are more mean than funny and too contrived to be outrageous. January 11, 2018 | Full Review…
It's clear that Dinner for Schmucks is going for a Meet the Parents-style typhoon of misery, but the series of misfortunes that befall Tim are more mean than funny and too contrived to be outrageous.
Lindy West
Dinner For Schmucks seems promising at first but too many plot points feel forced and the humor is too dumb to enjoy. November 9, 2013 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
Dinner For Schmucks seems promising at first but too many plot points feel forced and the humor is too dumb to enjoy.
Matt Joseph
The actors have been placed in a story that is not inherently funny, and they do what they can to muscle it, through their not inconsiderable talents, into working. It doesn't, and you can see the sweat. June 22, 2013 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
The actors have been placed in a story that is not inherently funny, and they do what they can to muscle it, through their not inconsiderable talents, into working. It doesn't, and you can see the sweat.
Will Leitch
Don't believe the misleading trailers. There's more to laugh at than they would have you believe. September 23, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Don't believe the misleading trailers. There's more to laugh at than they would have you believe.
Jeff Beck
The real schmucks are the people responsible for this movie. November 5, 2011 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
The real schmucks are the people responsible for this movie.
Greg Maki
The movie suffers by stifling the [Rudd's] natural comic ability and no one comes away from it fully satisfied. April 4, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The movie suffers by stifling the [Rudd's] natural comic ability and no one comes away from it fully satisfied.
Dave White
You know you're in trouble when the best thing in your movie is a bunch of dead rodents. January 31, 2011 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
You know you're in trouble when the best thing in your movie is a bunch of dead rodents.
Rene Rodriguez
Occasionally quite funny, and oddly relevant to the nature of our culture, but this dinner is a little underwhelming. January 16, 2011 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Occasionally quite funny, and oddly relevant to the nature of our culture, but this dinner is a little underwhelming.
R.L. Shaffer
A mediocre sitcom serving up a half-baked, TV dinner. Check please! January 7, 2011 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
A mediocre sitcom serving up a half-baked, TV dinner. Check please!
Kam Williams
While it has a few humorous moments, the characters are either so bizarre or so stereotyped and the tone so changeable, it's hard to like the movie as a whole. December 28, 2010 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
While it has a few humorous moments, the characters are either so bizarre or so stereotyped and the tone so changeable, it's hard to like the movie as a whole.
John J. Puccio
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