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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrIt brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
- An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit.
- 70TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelDirector Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
- 60Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorMany of the gags rely on the incongruity of Grant's nervous, cultured character posing as an Italian-American stereotype, but they're subverted by his earnest relationship with his fiancee, whose affection hardly seems worth the trouble.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisAs insulting as taking the queen to the Olive Garden.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWith preposterously convoluted plot twists, not even Grant is enough to make us smile all the way through the end.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.
- 50L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyL.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyAn abbondanza of busy, situation comedy twists that snip one's suspended disbelief and send it crashing like a chandelier.
- 30An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
- 10Film.comSean MeansFilm.comSean MeansAtrocious comedy.