HappyThankYouMorePlease 2011

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Sam and Rasheen's icky pas de deux is coarsely shoehorned into a movie that juggles three tepid romantic mini-dramas. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: [A] perky, if undistinguished, emulation of a mid-period Woody Allen relationship comedy... Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: HappyThankYouMorePlease features enough well-observed touches to prove Radnor deserved this shot... Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: There is a sweetness to Radnor's character and to his film. What there is not is a sense of urgency, of a desire to find out what happens next. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's sluggish and trite and irrelevant in a way that suggests that the TV soundstage is a kind of hothouse that Radnor doesn't leave often enough. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: As if this weren't enough baggage for one movie, especially an indie movie, Radnor front-loads the proceedings with further complications. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: With very little modification, the relationship woes of the six chirpy young New Yorkers in this (happythankyoumoreplease) self-absorbed indie could be reworked into episodes of TV's How I Met Your Mother. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Treating their problems like they're the most important crises in the world is what people in their 20s do, but that doesn't mean we have to go along for the ride. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A film whose extreme self-consciousness begins with the title and carries through. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: This unbearably cutesy and hackneyed movie is a vanity piece starring, and written and directed by, mild sitcom presence Josh Radnor. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A case of when bad scripts happen to good actors. Given its similarities to a bygone sitcom, one might call it Friends without benefits. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Kate Mara gives a breakout performance. She should be a star. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Radnor offers an entertaining and not especially self-indulgent ensemble comedy about young love in the big city that spotlights an appealing cast of youthful fringe-of-Hollywood talent. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's an observant and heartfelt film, with turns of dialogue that show that writer-director Josh Radnor really can write. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: With the exception of Akerman's Annie, the characters are uniformly annoying, their stories insubstantial and the tone one of smug contentment. Production values are grade-A. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Arrested Development's Tony Hale nearly overcomes the gently worthless script. Read more