Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Where Never Been Kissed succeeds is in its unabashed refusal to stoop to choosing sides in the high-school hipness war.
  3. 75
  4. The best things about Never Been Kissed are its colorful camera work and funny dialogue.
  5. 50
  6. Some so-so movies are just easy to be around, and this is one of them.
  7. 50
    Saying bad things about Never Been Kissed, an unapologetic crowd-pleaser, makes me feel like the Grinch stealing Christmas, but there are some things that can't be ignored.
  8. Reviewed by: Ron Wells
    Unfortunately, the script is a light romantic comedy and unwilling to go the extra distance to really make it stick.
  9. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    Not even Drew Barrymore's million-dollar smile can save this humiliating comedy.
  10. Labored miscalculation of a teen-trend comedy.
  11. An easygoing and amusing romantic confection.
  12. Reviewed by: Ted Gideonse
  13. Reviewed by: Lael Loewenstein
    A likable romantic comedy with an engaging premise and strong cast.
  14. Drew Barrymore has figured out what works, and what works for Drew Barrymore is this: Cinderella stories.
  15. 70
    There are some indignities that Drew Barrymore should never be made to suffer.
  16. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    Barrymore's sunny energy pushes the movie along, but halfway through you realize there just isn't that much to push.
  17. Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    It demands to be seen, for Drew Barrymore, who is at once the dizziest and most magically poised comedienne in movies today.
  18. 70
    Drew Barrymore's virtuoso performance smooths over the plot holes.
  19. 60
    Toothless satire relatively inoffensive and relentlessly mediocre.
  20. Reviewed by: Justine Elias
    A lively tribute to the awkwardness and power of adolescent girlhood.
  21. So hopelessly cartoonish and wrongheaded in its details that there's not even a semblance of reality.
  22. Reviewed by: Bruce Diones
    The film, which Barrymore produced, is meant to be a charming coming-of-age story, but it plays a little too sweetly for its own good.
  23. 50
    Predictable, slightly painful and as embarrassing as all get-out.
  24. Reviewed by: Sean Means
  25. 50
    Manages to get by on wry smarts, barbed asides, and plenty of Barrymore's comic grace.
  26. Reviewed by: Hal Hinson
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Feb 16, 2014
  2. Jun 24, 2012
  3. JayH
    May 3, 2009