A Guy Thing 2003

Critics score:
24 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: What should have been an entertaining take on screwball comedy conventions with a likable cast is undermined by cheap laughs. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: What in heaven's name is Julia Stiles doing in this mess? Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Gets bogged down by predictable supporting characters and some tasteless humor. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: A romantic comedy that's as completely predictable as it is eminently forgettable. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Though A Guy Thing has a good cast and some funny moments, there's something forced and a little frowzy about the way it's put together. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Much of it plays like a confused, desperate rehash of [Meet the Parents]. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Some of the gags are solid, but this sort of thing lives or dies on the strength of its cast, and, unfortunately, the leads are playing against their own strengths. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Did it really take four Writers Guild members (Greg Glienna, Pete Schwaba, Matt Tarses and Bill Wrubel) to write a joke about some soiled underwear? Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: With its heavy-handed approach to light material, it falls on its face as often as Lee's hapless character. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: A classic case of a bad, bad movie happening to perfectly good actors. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Abysmal, one of those dumbed-into-the-gutter farces in which the hero keeps having to do things like crawl out a second-story window and onto a tree branch. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A laugh, several laughs, are not only expected but flat-out demanded. Try as I might, I couldn't produce any. Let's hope you have better luck. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: A painful comedy of errors that wastes an agreeable cast. Read more

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly: The film itself is merely an outline, colored in with labored antics and shored up here and there by competent character bits. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: It's one of those movies whose sole conviction is that no gag is so tired or gross or easily grasped the first time that it cannot be run into the ground. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It takes a truly awful motion picture to nullify the considerable appeal of Lee, Stiles, and Blair, but A Guy Thing has what it takes. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Stumbles along laboriously, its jokes following one after another in a sloppy, flat-footed walk. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: What a childish, empty effort, and what a dispiriting thing to watch, or think back on watching. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A bale of romantic fluff that is a lot funnier than it has any right to be. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: There's enough chemistry between the leads, a few ludicrous plot twists and a fair amount of laughs to entertain audiences. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Read more

Anya Kamenetz, Village Voice: The three move through a faded deck of cliches ... with a convincing impression of having fun, helped along by a snazzy '60s-'70s soundtrack and bit-part fillips. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: [Tries] desperately to lower the bar for scatological gags, rank sexual humor and cheap physical shots. Read more