Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 8, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 7, 2016
Comedy is getting more and more nasty and more and more funny. But it’s hard to imagine any movie more nasty-funny than Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsEdward DouglasJul 5, 2016
As dumb as "Mike and Dave" can get, it's a surprisingly fun summer comedy and icing on the (wedding) cake for fans of the raunchiest of humor. Read full review
80
The GuardianJordan HoffmanJul 5, 2016
Plaza has found her Ron Burgundy: the vessel of a true imbecile in which to pour her strange genius. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerJul 7, 2016
This is not great moviemaking by any stretch of the imagination, but the spot-on comic timing of the principals here — especially former “Parks and Recreation” star Plaza — captured my funny bone and kept it happily working overtime from start to finish. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJul 7, 2016
Efron and Devine are an endearingly loony duo, and as much as Plaza and Kendrick never quite sell their vixen shtick, the supporting cast is wickedly stacked. It’s like riding a roller coaster fueled by Red Bull and grain alcohol: kind of gross but pretty fun, too. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle SmithJul 7, 2016
As filthy as the back of a sanitation truck — but it has heart, too. Most of the comedy is funny, some of it is hilarious. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 5, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates may not be the first Apatow-era comedy about twentysomethings coming to grips with the fact that they won’t live forever (and it’s certainly not the deepest, as it lingers in your memory for about as long as a Snapchat), but it might just be one of the funniest. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 5, 2016
What’s funny and winning about Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is that it’s a comedy of equal-opportunity raunch, where everyone in sight is right at home inside the animal house. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerJul 6, 2016
There’s something liberating about a comedy where all four central characters f--k up with such youthful bravado. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversJul 8, 2016
It's a bummer that the jokes don't land often enough, especially in the final third when the tone takes a turn for the tame. WTF!?! Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelJul 7, 2016
It wants to be "Wedding Crashers," but it's not nearly as memorable, smart, or sweet. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryJul 7, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is uproarious and flamboyantly raunchy, utterly stupid yet also occasionally winning Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 6, 2016
The girls go wild and they make “Mike and Dave” as nasty as they wanna be, and a pleasant, pervy surprise of a summer comedy. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEric HendersonJul 5, 2016
Much like with Neighbors 2, Mike and Dave’s obvious ace in the hole is its commitment to gender parity. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 11, 2016
Give the film this much: it’s egalitarian in its imbecility. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJul 8, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates follows a sturdy trajectory toward incipient maturity (and ceremonial catastrophe). If you don’t think about it too hard, you won’t hate it. Read full review
58
The Film StageJohn FinkJul 12, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is a funny-enough summer comedy that never quite breaks free from the countless raunchy iterations that have come before it. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 8, 2016
Like much of what transpires during the course of this production, it’s just crass. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 7, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates lopes along with bumptious likability but no real energy, urgency, structure, or wit. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJul 7, 2016
You’ve seen this cheery, slapdash blend of raunch, cocktails and summer dresses before. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJul 5, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates rates medium on the grossness scale (an all-body, pre-marital naked-Indian-guru-administered massage for the bride with a happy ending, anyone?), and pretty high in crude talk. But it's kind of a dud when it comes to endurance and imaginative moves. Read full review
42
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonJul 6, 2016
It’s a frustrating experience; a lot of the individual gags work quite well, but they never build to anything cohesive. Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentAug 3, 2016
A strong cast can’t rescue the repetitively crude and recklessly derivative material. Mike and Dave need a lot more help than in merely finding wedding dates. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJul 7, 2016
Unfortunately, director Jake Szymanski's bad-boy farce from there quickly becomes a textbook example of the law of diminishing returns. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJul 7, 2016
On the wildly uneven rollercoaster that is Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, the lows far outweigh the highs. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 7, 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates gives us too much hangover and not enough buzz. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJul 6, 2016
Scatologically speaking, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is best described as one of those summer movie turds: It passes easily and then disappears with a single flush. It’s crap any way you look at it, though there are less pleasant ways to spend your time on a day marked by triple-digit temperatures. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 6, 2016
There’s very little that’s shocking — and not nearly enough that is funny — about this romantic comedy. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJul 7, 2016
Confuses repetitive raunchiness with daring humor. It hammers us over the head with the same handful of jokes in the hopes of beating us into submission. And it strains the screen appeal of a group of actors who normally are enormously likable. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Johanna SchnellerJul 7, 2016
You may think I’m being too hard on this film. It’s possible I saw it on the wrong night, in the wrong mood. But I’m fed up with the cheap laziness of this strain of comedy. When I was eight, I found it side-splitting that Ken’s doll hand was moulded in a curve that fit perfectly over Barbie’s breast. But then I grew up. Read full review
20
TheWrapRobert AbeleJul 5, 2016
Built on a shaky comic premise based on a real Craigslist ad posted by a pair of party animals — and smacked to life with relentlessly feeble, dopey improvisation and unoriginal crudity — “Mike and Dave” is more likely to tarnish its cast’s comedy-chops goodwill than to foster a desire to see any more raunch-till-you-drop yukfests. Read full review
10
The New York TimesManohla DargisJul 7, 2016
Witless, soulless, often amateurish and filled with product placements (nice going, Coors), the movie has nothing going for it other than some wasted talent. Read full review
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