Swingers: Critic Reviews

Mr. Favreau wrote this screenplay with his real friends in mind. And the cast's camaraderie is appealingly clear.

Swingers is uneven, amateurish and borderline misogynistic. But it's also very funny, and it never loses its cool.

The movie is sweet, funny, observant and goofy with a small "g," which means you don't get paid, but at least you don't have to wear the suit.

A winningly confident snapshot of the nightlives of a bunch of young showbiz wannabes in a very upto-the-minute Hollywood.

This kind of story -- a staple of low-budget features -- is getting awfully stale, and the injection of humor can't completely invigorate the proceedings.

Four guys hang out, kid one another, get into scuffles and flash their gonadal searchlight for available women. Yikes, haven't there been enough variations on the multiple-buddy movie? Actually, no.

A guy film that gives you something to latch onto, that makes male bonding both believable and appealing.

It's not the most creative of plots, but it captures a generation and the down-on-your-luck-in-so-many-ways motif effectively: it's like comfort food, with more heart than Liman usually provides.

Director-cinematographer Doug Liman gets points for breathing a bit of life into an already tired indie sub genre.

One of the sharpest male-oriented comedies of the 1990s.

The arc is nothing new, but the writing and pacing make it fresh and energetic, at least enough for it to have became a cult classic.

Liman and Favreau concoct a consciously derivative world for these guys, and though it's appropriate to the movie, I got tired of it after a while.

Directed in flair by Doug Liman, with winning performances from Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, this comedy is the most successful since Diner of what could be described as a cycle of "walking and talking" and "hanging out" pictures.

Ninety minutes spent learning how not to pick up girls. This is what the movies were made for, isn't it?

This exercise in indie hipster cool is 'money'--and that's no joke, baby.

This movie is definitely "money," baby!

Blessed with a brilliantly quotable screenplay, one of the most electric and insightful ever written.

Shows that honesty and humanity aren't incompatible with comedy in modern Hollywood.

A Swinging good time! Vaughn is a revelation

The first and best outing from Favreau and Vaughan. Trendy, but hilarious. VEGAS, BABY - VEGAS!