That's My Boy
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 15, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
14
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJun 16, 2012
The results are soul-corrodingly funny. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 14, 2012
Never underestimate the importance of guy-on-guy sentimentality in the Adam Sandler universe. It's his way of making his fans feel as if he's high-fiving them, or maybe giving them a group hug. But Sandler, bottom line, is too good at playing louts like Donny to spend this much energy getting us to like them. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle SmithJun 15, 2012
That's My Boy is pretty raunchy, and by "pretty," I mean "amazingly," as in Howard Stern- or Seth MacFarlane-style gags. Read full review
60
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Sep 3, 2012
Not nearly as terrible as burped-out Sandler disasters of recent years, there's enough funny stuff here to remind us of his talent. Still, it's not for everyone. Read full review
60
Time OutBen KenigsbergJun 15, 2012
Depending on your POV, it's either the ne plus ultra of Hollywood calculation or a comedy simply intent on pushing its crassness to the point of surrealism. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderDrew HuntJun 16, 2012
Despite their assorted vulgarities and lack of polish, the films of Adam Sandler are remarkably consistent in their own particular way. This one's no different. Read full review
50
TimeMary PolsJun 14, 2012
I did laugh. The movie is so disgusting it is worthy of the Farrelly brothers. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweJun 14, 2012
With enough wedding-related shenanigans to pull in the date crowd, the guffaw-to-gag ratio remains relatively respectable, though there's nothing here that hasn't been attempted many times over. Read full review
50
MovielineAlison WillmoreJun 14, 2012
No matter how much good-hearted licentiousness follows in the rest of the movie, the opening sequence brings a unshakable sourness to the whole affair. Read full review
40
Total FilmKen McIntyreAug 30, 2012
Adam Sandler stumbles into his own movie about 10 minutes into That's My Boy, and that's where the fun ends. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 20, 2012
If you expect That's My Boy to be the Bad Dad equivalent of Bad Santa, you'll be sorely disappointed. Sandler can't quite adopt that same cynical edge, instead favoring corny and sentimental resolutions to untenable predicaments. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDavid DeWittJun 14, 2012
That's My Boy is a pretty wretched movie if you want to activate your brain cells, but its busily plotted second half approaches involving. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineMark OlsenJun 14, 2012
That's My Boy has the same freewheeling appeal and potty-mouthed, go-for-broke mania of Sandler's earlier comedies. But there's a new undercurrent of energy that's likely the consequence of Sandler separating from his usual collaborators. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 15, 2012
In matters of personal taste, there is no right or wrong, so if erasing brain cells is your idea of a good time, That's My Boy could be your cup of turpentine. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeEthan GilsdorfJun 14, 2012
Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineNick SchagerJun 14, 2012
That's My Boy lazily exists in a fantasyland of Adam Sandler's perpetual adolescence, even as it generates some moderate comic friction from Sandler and Andy Samberg's testy back-and-forth. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 14, 2012
This is one of those movies you feel stupider just for having sat through. I think I'm already worse at math. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangJun 14, 2012
All in all, it could have been worse. Puerile, crotch-fixated and very occasionally, inanely funny, Adam Sandler's raunchiest star vehicle in years has a small saving grace in Andy Samberg's performance. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 15, 2012
That's My Boy more than lives up to its R-rating - including one gross-out gag repulsive enough to make you put down your popcorn. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenJun 14, 2012
Will be construed by the faithful as an embarrassment of riches and by the rest of us as cruel and unusual punishment. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 14, 2012
It's monumentally coarse and vulgar, aimed at the mentality of a 14-year-old locked inside his father's liquor cabinet, and nothing about it is funny, least of all Adam Sandler. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 14, 2012
That's My Boy is puerile, mean-spirited and charmless. Read full review
20
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 15, 2012
Nobody has an excuse for being surprised by how low Sandler and company stoop in That's My Boy. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 14, 2012
As awful as most of That's My Boy is, it's sort of mesmerizing to see how Sandler - in a script credited to David Caspe - keeps his touchstones in place. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinJun 13, 2012
The film is such a barren comic wasteland of scatology and misogyny that Vanilla Ice steals the film with a good-natured, self-deprecating portrayal of himself as Sandler's sleazy party buddy. Read full review
12
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJun 14, 2012
That's My Boy is radical only in its extreme laziness. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 14, 2012
Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy. Read full review
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