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Dave Kehr New York Times (Top Critic)

50

Fitfully amusing.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Andy Seiler USA Today (Top Critic)

Despite a Chicago setting, it's the American cast members who seem out of place, flailing as they struggle with their cartoon-ish roles.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

70

Some of these gags are very funny, and it's a pleasure to see Reno as something other than a villain in an English language picture.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

40

Curiously unfunny.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Joanna Weiss Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Seems like the same old shtick, with capes and French accents.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Not only microwaves what is already four-day-old fish in Paris, but lets the original director, screenwriters, and stars do the reheating.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Louis B. Parks Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

It's tepid, predictable stuff, staged with no special imagination.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

One of those rare American remakes of a French film that preserves the flavor of the original and even improves upon it.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

Wasn't one iota funnier when I regained consciousness than it was when I mercifully slipped out of it.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

An uncommonly delightful comedy for the family audience.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

As one character aptly remarks, 'The French will pay for this!'
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

In taking the Les out of these visitors, something got lost in the translation.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Achieves an above-average number of hits on the laugh meter through an onslaught of nonstop irreverent gags.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Charles Cassady Common Sense Media

40

Time travel comedy with bathroom humor.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

25

Bears the scars of a film sliced and diced by a studio hoping to salvage a failed comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ian Waldron-Mantgani UK Critic

50

The visuals look dark, grubby and cheap, making us feel like we're watching a shoddy knock-off rather than an enthusiastic remake
Full Review » 10 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

50

Just Visiting is far from intolerable, and, as these things go, it's probably not even "bad". But there doesn't seem to have been any talent behind it, any thought, any care.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Ted Murphy Baseline.Hollywood.com

50

Just Visiting isn't a total misfire, there are some amusing sequences ... but there are also cringe-worthy moments as well.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

25

The broad slapstick that could remotely be considered mildly funny in their native context goes over like a lead balloon en anglais.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Doris Toumarkine Film Journal International

Hobbled by its two leads, whose French accents muddy their lines and make the film a lot less accessible to the younger audiences the film targets.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Gene Seymour Newsday

Truly it is a peculiar curse upon the world, this high-concept joke that refuses to die.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Yazmin Ghonaim Cinephiles

Creates a fair degree of authenticity in its representations of cultural and period differences.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Norm Schrager Filmcritic.com

60

What's annoying about this version is that it's been dumbed down for American audiences.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com

34

The word 'innocuous' was created for movies like this, both in the sense of being harmless, and in the sense of being unlikely to inspire any strong feelings.
Full Review » 11 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

50

never slow or boring, but it's never very funny, either
Full Review » 11 years ago