Comedies like this are rare for offering tangible characters we care about and comedy that affixes some significance to our periodic need for base humor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2023

Repetition is the ultimate enemy here.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 28, 2020

This is a fun movie but... it yaps around the ankles of its subject without ever moving in for a decent-sized, satisfying bite.

| Aug 23, 2018

You'd expect something better from Robert B. Weide.

| Dec 16, 2017

What we have is a comedy that's not that great, a romance that's not that convincing and a movie that's sadly not that special. Now that's how you lose friends and alienate people.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2012

droseri, ana diastimata asteia, alla en genei filodoksi apopeira aythadeias me eynoyhismenes eilikrineis protheseis kai bretaniko flegma kommeno stis akres gia na horesei se amerikaniko kaloypi romenti, opoy niotheis synehos na leipoyn pragmata

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 22, 2009

The makings of an uncompromising, razor sharp satire were gathered together here. That the resulting movie slips off track as much as it does is particularly disappointing.

Full Review | Original Score: 67/100 | Feb 12, 2009

A fun movie worth checking out.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 20, 2008

... slickly constructed and frequently funny.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2008

Where the movie succeeds is in its sudden right turns, its willingness to kill a dog, always a bold choice, and its consistent emphasis of the comedy over the romance.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2008

Just because you are supposed to laugh doesn't mean you are going to laugh.

| Nov 7, 2008

I'm told that several of these characters are easily recognisable to insiders, but outside that small coterie there's still a great deal to enjoy about Sidney's fish-out-of-water exploits.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 31, 2008

I feel I've seen a bit too much of Pegg in some not very funny films recently, but his fish out of water works well.

| Oct 24, 2008

No bad thing, really, but a fair distance from the barbed humour of Young's book.

| Oct 24, 2008

While Pegg has a good stab at lending the film some of his trademark knockabout charm, the film is as artless and difficult to warm to as its leading man.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 24, 2008

Weide bypasses the impulse to push the film at the usual breakneck comedy movie pace, allowing the conflicts to build slowly and with more thought than the film's premise might otherwise suggest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2008

Quite apart from the insights into the strange world of showbiz celebrities, the film is enjoyable for its often witty script and the thoroughly engaging characters...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 24, 2008

British funny man Simon Pegg continues his downwards spiral with this lame, "'Devil Wears Prada"-styled "comedy."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 23, 2008

Simon Pegg's brilliant central performance and some very funny gags are drained by a limp finale which leaves all manner of plot strands hanging and characters left out to dry as the film stalls and sputters its way home.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

The film version of Young's book is more slapstick than skewer, more loving portrait than leveling blow.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008