Want to be happy? Don't waste your time or money on this movie.

| Aug 10, 2021

Feels like Michel Gondry Lite, but when it and Pegg let the whimsy go, it can be an affecting story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Doesn't seem to be in possession of any form of moral compass, and all traces of humanity have been sucked dry by a need to be whimsy for whimsy's sake.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 13, 2018

In the end happiness, it seems, is above all in the journey... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 13, 2017

Those who like "life-affirming" sayings will find plenty to like, and while it doesn't quite come together as a whole there are more than enough lovely moments to reflect on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2017

Hector and The Search for Happiness wors because it's basically a "self-help" movie. [full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2015

Hector and The Search for Happiness is a feel good movie that avoids feeling preachy at all times. [full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2015

Full of good intentions and lessons, perhaps this was the reason to its great success as a book, but as a movie it fails entirely. [full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 4, 2015

In look and feel, Hector and the Search for Happiness is a cross between The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Eat Pray Love and is only marginally better than those films.

| Original Score: C | Jan 13, 2015

Hector may indeed learn that narcissism stands in the way of happiness, but he also walks away with his privileges intact and unchallenged.

| Dec 23, 2014

The title character won't find what he's looking for in this woefully misguided feel-good comedy.

| Oct 31, 2014

Staggering out of Hector and The Search For Happiness, I had the impression of having witnessed an unequivocal fiasco, a film no human being would be likely to enjoy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 24, 2014

Also known as Eat Pray Love - The Guy Edition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2014

In another actor's hands, Hector -- a self-absorbed psychologist with a superficial understanding of the world around him -- could be a disaster. But Pegg invests his larger-than-life character with genuine heart and soul.

| Oct 23, 2014

Hector can be a bit of dope some of the time, and a bit of a condescending prat at all other times.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 23, 2014

Think of EAT, PRAY, LOVE which has a similar sort of journey and this is so much better than that.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2014

I found the film enormously likeable with solid performances from a grand array of actors.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2014

Aggressively harmless.

| Oct 17, 2014

Sweet without being cloying, though it sometimes flirts dangerously with that possibility. At the same time, if you're allergic to whimsy, this is best avoided.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2014

...a story that runs out of steam virtually from the outset...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2014