Dinner For Schmucks: Press reviews

'has a nimble rhythm and remarkably few dull patches'

'Sounds like a recipe for deliciousness. Well, it should be, but unfortunately this is rather undercooked'

'Hardly a classic given the talents of Carell, Rudd and Roach at his best. It bungles utilising plenty of talent in a lightweight comedy effort that brings little fresh to the table.'

'Dinner for Schmucks is toothless and only intermittently funny'

'grossly over-acted'

'But by declining to embrace the essential meanspiritedness at the heart of his story, Roach serves up a bland starter that leaves you salivating for an entrée that never arrives'

'an awkward comedy of errors with a sense of humour that's as subtle as rouge on a polar bear.'

'Pushed to extreme slapstick, the plot rises or falls on our laughing in recognition that we too are capable of the perverse and unkind. Instead, 10 minutes in, we just feel dead. '

'buttock-clenchingly bad '

'The set-piece finale of humiliation is so confused it's hard to know who's the butt – the "schmucks", the corporates, or the audience. Probably all three.'

'Dinner For Schmucks is easily the most obnoxious film of the year, and ranks high among the least intelligent remakes of all time.