Just Go with It
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 11, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
15
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 10, 2011
A very funny romantic comedy that nicely combines Adam Sandler's acerbic sweetness with Aniston's down-to-earth warmth. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 11, 2011
The predicable, overlong romantic farce has enough sass and sex appeal to appease fans of stars Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. Read full review
63
USA TodayScott BowlesFeb 10, 2011
For added heehaws, the normally dependable Nick Swardson comes along to act the ass and delve into some of Sandler's more nuanced scatological humor. Read full review
60
TimeMary PolsFeb 14, 2011
A loose but fairly snappy remake of the 1969 charmer "Cactus Flower." Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 10, 2011
Just Go with It provides not only the title of the film but a one-step instruction for how best to enjoy it. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeFeb 11, 2011
The Super Bowl MVP is awarded a trip to Disneyland. Maybe in the future, he should be awarded a part in an Adam Sandler movie. There is no bigger male fantasy land. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 10, 2011
There is some cheap homophobia at the end, and a lot of the kind of misogyny that treats the existence of nonthin, nonrich, nonwhite women as a joke in itself. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFeb 10, 2011
Sandler, shambling and smirky, delivers another of those one-take performances of his - likable and lazy, forever on the verge of cracking himself up. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAndrew SchenkerFeb 10, 2011
As in many a Sandler picture, Just Go With It is a tale of both escalating lies that finally give way to truth and of childish behavior eventually corrected strung along by lowbrow jokes that hit and miss in roughly even number. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyFeb 10, 2011
If you're a Sandler film buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. Still, the best thing about the movie remains Aniston - she is reason enough to just go with it. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazinePam GradyFeb 10, 2011
The positives have an edge over the negatives, but it probably doesn't matter either way. It is an Adam Sandler movie. Read full review
45
MovielineMichelle OrangeFeb 10, 2011
Just Go With It attempts to merge farce and romantic comedy with the Sandler sensibility, and the result is a story that evades where it should engage and a whiplash tone that dispirits when it should delight. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerFeb 12, 2011
A fumbling comedy directed by Dennis Dugan that could have benefitted from surgical reconstruction. How about some liposuction to siphon off all those lame jokes? Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 10, 2011
A comedy as lazy as Sandler's previous boondoggles. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFeb 24, 2011
Kidman is the only refreshing thing in the movie. Otherwise, Just Go With It is an exercise in stagnation. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 11, 2011
Sandler's puppy-dog persona is just about ready to be put down. From its title on, this is entertainment for extremely lazy audiences. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerFeb 10, 2011
Manages to misfire in two seemingly incompatible directions. A puerile kiddie-comedy without the anarchic energy, and a schmaltzy romantic comedy without the sweetness. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 10, 2011
A witless rom-com that is only marginally watchable. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 13, 2011
Akin to watching a bad sit-com that never ends. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreFeb 11, 2011
It's a rarely amusing movie overwhelmed by grating kids, unfunny sidekicks, half-hearted Sandler funny voices and a co-star who seems more fearful of smiling with each passing year. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisFeb 10, 2011
Seeing her (Kidman) in junk like this is a bit like watching the Queen of England eat a Taco Bell chalupa. Read full review
30
SalonAndrew O'HehirFeb 11, 2011
An Adam Sandler comedy, which means it bears only a superficial relationship to the customary conventions of moviemaking, and also that there's no use getting all worked up about that. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayFeb 11, 2011
An egregiously unfunny enterprise. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 11, 2011
It's the perfect Valentine's date night movie, but only with someone you hate. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumFeb 11, 2011
A bummer - slack rather than loose, tired rather than fun. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsFeb 10, 2011
Aniston and Sandler, however, play characters too awful to deserve anyone better than each other. But what did we do to deserve them? Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 10, 2011
Offers only one point of interest beyond the breasts of its second female lead: Aniston's barely disguised disdain for her material. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFeb 10, 2011
The people in this movie are dumber than a box of Tinkertoys. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 11, 2011
You know you're in trouble when you're suffering a comedy shutout and the pinch-hitters you send in are Kidman and Dave Matthews. Read full review
10
NPRScott TobiasFeb 15, 2011
The shame of it is, all this ridiculousness might have worked under surer hands. After all, farces are supposed to be a little silly, and the audience, for lack of a better phrase, can be trained to just go with it. The trick? Don't treat us like a bunch of Palmers. Read full review
0
SlateDana StevensFeb 10, 2011
A comedy so noxious it seems the product of deliberate malignity. Surely the sour, vapid, miserable world of this movie can't reflect any real human being's notion of what love or humor or good storytelling is-not even a Hollywood screenwriter's. Read full review
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