53
Metascore
33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt's very funny, terrifically lively and, considering how awful it might have been, surprisingly tender in its portrait of a young guy who learns sensitivity the hard way.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasCan be taken as a mildly risque frothy date movie, but there's serious subtext for those who choose to look beneath surface sheen.
- 75Miami HeraldCharles SavageMiami HeraldCharles SavageThe quality writing, delivered by likable Hartnett and his talented co-stars, makes up for the sometimes flat production. A richly humorous background is provided by well-played eccentric minor characters.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA kinder, gentler teensploitation comedy, but Hartnett's Matt, at least, invites the audience to graduate to something better.
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerSets out to demonstrate that life is about more than having sex. Inadvertently -- I think -- it ends up showing us just the opposite. As if we didn't already know.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThis pretty but witless movie is well-produced, slickly directed -- full of jokes about hot dudes and hot babes pitched right at the "American Pie" crowd.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyAll this holding back is a bad idea, especially as the subject of an entire movie.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyIt's rare that a movie is so graceful and so gross.
- 30The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThe sensibility of the movie is naggingly adolescent -- less erotic than squeamish and giggly. [11 Mar 2002, p. 92]
- 30SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorIt's too mild to be crass; it's clumsy. Lehmann has made what amounts to an anti-sex sex comedy, the first youth sex comedy made to be enjoyed by those creepy abstinence teens.