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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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You know you're in trouble when the best thing in your movie is a bunch of dead rodents. Jan 31, 2011 | Rating: 2/4
You know you're in trouble when the best thing in your movie is a bunch of dead rodents.
Rene Rodriguez
It cost around $70 million, according to the Los Angeles Times, which is about $5 million per laugh if I'm generous. Sep 30, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It cost around $70 million, according to the Los Angeles Times, which is about $5 million per laugh if I'm generous.
Paul Byrnes
Steve Carell and Paul Rudd fizzle in this dire, painfully overlong comedy bomb. Sep 28, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Steve Carell and Paul Rudd fizzle in this dire, painfully overlong comedy bomb.
Jim Schembri
Francis Veber's 1998 Le Dîner de Cons was no great shakes, but it looks almost classy next to this atrocious remake. Sep 3, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Francis Veber's 1998 Le Dîner de Cons was no great shakes, but it looks almost classy next to this atrocious remake.
Anthony Quinn
A buttock-clenchingly bad film. Sep 2, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A buttock-clenchingly bad film.
Peter Bradshaw
You may feel an idiot for staying with it till the end. Sep 2, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
You may feel an idiot for staying with it till the end.
David Gritten
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. Jun 6, 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 8, 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. Jan 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. Nov 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. Jun 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. Sep 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
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