Whatever It Takes: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

10

The script's way of handling its romantic complications is unusually obtuse and insensitive.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

This is the cinematic equivalent of those over-the-hill jocks who show up at their high school's game wearing a mothballed letter-jacket.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

West, Franco, O'Keefe and Sokoloff are fine. It's just the dynamic of the callous jock/lovable oddball/stuck-up slut/sweet kid that reeks like a stale gym locker.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

The producers ... settle for the most obvious load of formula stuff in a numbingly cliched teen comedy pivoting on a lot of plastic angst over who'll take whom to the prom.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Pamela Mitchell Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Lame script.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kendall Morgan Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Although the leads are appealing, you're better off watching them for free on the little screen, in Once and Again....
Full Review » 12 years ago
Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)

Falls flat with unbelievably bad scenes that are also just plain unbelievable.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

38

Still another movie arguing that the American teenager's IQ level hovers in the low 90s.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mark Caro Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

What was that movie that finds humor in someone barfing on someone else? Give me a minute, it's on the tip of my tongue! Whatever It Takes.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

The lightest, most forgettable item yet backed by Phoenix Pictures.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

An assembly-line high-school comedy that flunks miserably in all three subjects.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

There's something sweet and delightfully anarchic about it.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

What you're actually hearing is the sound of a really old coot preaching a very practised sermon.
Full Review » 9 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

Like some kind of perverse cinematic plague, the teen comedies keep coming, each looking like a more washed-out xerox of the last one.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Ellen MacKay Common Sense Media

20

This is simply an assembly of cinematic cliches.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

25

Please, oh please, make these teen-targeted romantic comedies go away.
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

63

Whatever It Takes is certainly nothing new or ground-breaking, but for what it is, it's entertaining and slightly above-average.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Chris Gore Film Threat

20

This is about as lame as teen comedy/romance films come.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mike Kerrigan Boxoffice Magazine

40

It never has enough confidence to let itself go and shock or surprise the audience.
Full Review » 10 years ago
George Meyer Orlando Weekly

The predictable scenarios don't allow the actors many opportunities to distinguish themselves.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

0

The mixture of puerile double entendres, vomit humor, dumb-blonde and dumb-jock jokes, and smarmy last-minute sentiment on display here is pretty much beyond endurance.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Atkinson Mr. Showbiz

Yet another leaden, witless, cliche-drunk, teen romantic comedy.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mac Verstandig Moviereviews.org

The unoriginal plot mixed with the apparent inability to land a single joke doom the production for expulsion from the ranks of decent cinema.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Philpot Fort Worth Star-Telegram

You -- yes, you -- can write a teen comedy. Whatever It Takes is proof.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Sean O'Connell Citysearch

The only thing you won't see through the sparkling smiles of the fresh-faced, beautiful cast is an original thought or message.
Full Review » 12 years ago