21 and Over
Relativity Media | Release Date: March 1, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 6, 2013
Lucas and Moore aren’t savvy enough, or brave enough, to truly plumb the gallows humor embedded in their premise. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 2, 2013
Neither as subversively fun as last year’s megadestructive "Project X," nor as creative as "The Hangover" (on which these codirectors broke through as screenwriters), this further installment in the millennials-acting-badly genre serves as a distinctly average placeholder. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 2, 2013
In the end, 21 and Over is more exhausting — and exhausted — than funny or wild. Read full review
20
The New York TimesNicole HerringtonMar 1, 2013
The movie’s humor — at the expense of Asians, Latinas and even Serbs — comes off just as tone deaf and random as Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar-night shenanigans. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 1, 2013
Among the ingredients “21” is missing: the infectiously random silliness of a Zach Galifianakis, the smug hunkiness of a Bradley Cooper, and any sort of Vegas-y gloss whatsoever. Read full review
25
The PlaylistDrew TaylorMar 1, 2013
For a movie that tries to create and sustain a sensation of wild unpredictability, it's a huge failure. It's not shocking if we've all seen it a thousand times before. With 21 and Over, it's all been there, drank that. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMar 1, 2013
How ironic (depressing? predictable?) that the week after we celebrate the best in movies, we are force-fed its very worst. 21 & Over is filmmaking by formula, and evidence of Hollywood’s assumption that appealing to viewers’ basest instincts will always pay off. Read full review
40
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekFeb 28, 2013
The movie rambles in a way that dilutes any possibility of edgy discomfort. Lucas and Moore have good control over the timing within the gags; it's the spaces between them that stretch out awkwardly. You can't hate 21 & Over, and you can't laugh at it. The most you can do is just pity it for not being as outrageous as it thinks it is. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 28, 2013
Just because your comedy is dumb doesn’t mean it’s funny. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenFeb 28, 2013
Certainty, then, is the watchword, and you can be certain of three things: There will be plenty of juvenile energy to power the vehicle; there will be a few mild chuckles en route; there will be no reason to remember the ride the instant it ends. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 28, 2013
This is one of those 93-minute movies that seem about 88 minutes too long. Or not worth making in the first place. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 28, 2013
21 and Over remains enjoyable for what it is and all it cares to be, which is nothing any respectable movie critic should recommend, and I'm down with that. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 28, 2013
This paean to youthful irresponsibility applies the right crude and rude 'tude to its bulging sack of gags to have the desired effect on its target audience. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigFeb 28, 2013
Despite its collegiate setting, 21 and Over is pretty much for people with an IQ of 21 and under. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenFeb 28, 2013
This is a movie that celebrates selfishness, stupidity and the mean-spirited insensitivity that goes along with it. We're better than this, America. Read full review
25
Film.comWilliam GossFeb 28, 2013
Yes, surely for them, the lucky few and probable many, 21 and Over will be the Best Movie Ever. For the rest of us, though, it’s something of a chore. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubFeb 28, 2013
Writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore find a nice balance between the over-the-top high jinks and an emotional core, which unexpectedly crystallizes relatively late in the movie. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 28, 2013
Promising crude straight-boy humor, but delivering sensitive buddy moments and tons of male nudity, this by-the-numbers gut-buster looks slick, moves fast and packs enough laughs to enliven spring-break receipts and earn its helmers more work. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinFeb 28, 2013
21 & Over seems particularly redundant, since a film already exists that’s exactly like "The Hangover," only not as good: It was called "The Hangover Part II." 21 & Over is so slavish in imitating its screenwriters’ big claim to fame that it even ends by teasing a sequel, to which the only sane response is a polite but firm, “Thank you, no.” Read full review
12
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerFeb 28, 2013
By the dictates of the boys-will-be-boys party genre, 21 and Over is so tame that it barely manages to even be offensive. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFeb 27, 2013
The bottom-line on this bottom-baring/bottom-branding farce is “Is it funny, on top of all the shocks?” And yes, it is. On a number of few occasions, all of them involving Jeff Chang. Read full review
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