Nature Calls
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: November 9, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenNov 8, 2012
It almost seems like harder work somehow to get this many comedians together and then turn out a movie that is only so fitfully funny. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayNov 7, 2012
There's nothing wrong with the idea of trying to make a Bad News Bears for the '10s, and Rohal has the comic talent in front of the camera to do the job. In addition to Oswalt and Knoxville, he has Maura Tierney as Knoxville's wife. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 8, 2012
Surely Patton Oswalt could have leveraged all those accolades from last year's "Young Adult" into a better project than this instantly forgettable comedy. Read full review
40
Village VoiceChris PackhamNov 7, 2012
The unmitigated disaster of the camping trip just stays disastrous, the story never really finding its way from adversity to heroic redemption. Read full review
40
Time OutEric HynesNov 6, 2012
No amount of eccentric Americana (or slyly marginal inventiveness) can salvage this strangely lifeless - and largely laughless - gonzo comedy, which is doomed by a flimsy script, one-dimensional characterizations and distractingly inept child acting. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithNov 8, 2012
A low-watt, low-wit comedy. Read full review
25
The PlaylistJames RocchiNov 8, 2012
Nature Calls demonstrates yet again that the real question for any bad script is not "Who wrote this garbage?" but, rather, "Who read this garbage and thought it would make a viable way to spend time?" Read full review
20
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerNov 8, 2012
If the Boy Scouts offered a merit badge for inept filmmaking, Todd Rohal would certainly earn it with Nature Calls, an unwatchably bad movie about a camping trip gone haywire. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineThomas HachardNov 8, 2012
Writer-director Todd Rohal fills muddled scenes with manic amounts of jokes that all manage to land with a thud. Read full review
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