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

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

Hopelessly benign but still boisterous enough to deliver a mild buzz.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 28, 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...

Full Review | Jun 23, 2011

It's funny, offensive, well acted and pointless.

| May 1, 2011

Comedy seldom comes as good-natured as Cedar Rapids, a fish-out-of-water story in which a Midwestern innocent discovers sex, drugs and cream sherry in the big city.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2011

Plenty of passing laughs, but some coarse overacting, not to mention a phoned-in, Capra-esque message of singular banality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2011

Its breezy charm papers over narrative cracks and minor annoyances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2011

It's beautifully acted, well-observed and very funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2011

A foul-mouthed but good-natured comedy roughly in the Apatow mould.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2011

One of those sunny-natured indie comedies that comes out of nowhere to put a smile on your face.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2011

Effectively a coming-of-age comedy set 25-odd years later than normal. Tim Lippe's a 40-year-old in the body of a 15-year-old with the haircut of a four-year-old.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2011

One of the things I admire most about director Miguel Arteta's films (including Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl) is that he shows such compassion for his characters.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2011

These folk are undistinguished yet distinctive, and the film, for all the familiar grind of its plotting, pays them their honest due.

| Feb 28, 2011

Considering it has to do with infidelity, bribery, drugs, drinking, loutish behavior, fraud and prostitution, Cedar Rapids is really kind of a sweet movie.

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2011

Cedar Rapids takes an inordinate number of wrong turns, but it also has an inordinate number of good laughs mixed in with the not-so-good ones.

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2011

Although the ads pitch it as being somewhere between The Office and The Hangover, Cedar Rapids is actually a semisweet charmer of a movie that fluxes between edgy comedy and palpable pathos.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 18, 2011

In the dying days of an era when "big city" has been a relative term, the sales-convention comedy "Cedar Rapids" is a loving tribute to American innocence.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2011