Sweet Home Alabama
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: September 27, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
23
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Speaking of sounding Southern, I have to admit that the accents didn't match, and half the actors couldn't even do accents. But since we all sound alike down here, that's no big deal. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
A romantic comedy so rote, dull and predictable that it makes "You've Got Mail" seem innovative and fresh. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
And Witherspoon? She does the American equivalent of a mechanical British performance: She hits every note too perfectly. There's no shadow to her smile. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
This movie is phony, phony, phony -- from its Disneyland version of the Deep South to its pious lessons about the values of simple rural living. Read full review
30
New Times (L.A.)Robert Wilonsky
Which leaves Witherspoon, that delicious pastry, to heave the movie on her small shoulders and carry it home. The load is light -- the movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne -- but even she can't withstand the burden.
30
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
To call the film contrived would imply that some sort of effort had been made, when Sweet Home Alabama is nothing but dead lazy and slow — y'all. Read full review
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