1. Here is a portrait of a character so sad and hapless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness.
2. The story is simple -- almost painfully so -- but it still could have worked had the screenplay been more focused and innovative, and the characters dealt with more satisfyingly.
3. Forced bits of padding such as those just show that the concept really doesn't merit more than the five minutes its allotted on Saturday nights.
4. The movie blows.
5. Little more than a warmed-over TV skit.
6. There's a message in there somewhere, but I'm not sure it's worth seeking out.
7. Redundant, repetitive and not particularly amusing, with an unacceptably low gag-to-laugh ratio.
8. Mary Katherine's best suited for the small screen, so wait for the video.
9. I was amused. I wasn't exactly enthralled, but that's nothing to be surprised about when attending a film based on a 9-minute television skit.
10. The script by Steven Wayne Koren bumps along, using musical numbers and fantasy sequences as filler in a thin plot.
Dumb script and flat jokes made this another SNL misfire.

1. 40-Year-Old Virgin hits swell comedic highpoints, and the sheer vibe of the picture is so cheery and bawdy that it's impossible to hate.
2. Wedding Crashers will gross close to $200 million by run's end. If that's the playing field comedy fans want to set, then The 40-Year Old Virgin deserves to outgross Titanic.
3. It almost made me forget about Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Almost.
4. could have been the funniest and sweetest movie of the year
5. Sure, it's a fairly broad sex comedy, but it's a sweet one.
6. Essentially a relationship comedy masquerading as a sex farce.
7. A surprisingly funny, if disposable, movie.
8. [Carell] makes the most of his chance at the spotlight, and has increased the possibility of his becoming a household name with an effectively funny comedy.
9. Sweet and raunchy in equal measure, which I suppose makes it the aged-to-perfection version of American Pie.
10. Simply put, this movie is the adult sex comedy that 'Wedding Crashers' could have been.
Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences.

1. Little girls and salty sea dogs alike have long been held in thrall to the mermaid's siren song; in Aquamarine, based on Alice Hoffman's book, the ladyfish finds herself awash in the low tide of teen romantic comedy.
2. Director Elizabeth Allen sets a nicely easy-breezy tone for Aquamarine, but her comic timing is sometimes shaky and she sadly cannot overcome the weaknesses of the script.
3. The movie scores a major victory in reaching its audience with the all-too-important message that they are fine just the way they are.
4. Kids seem to love the recognizable 'tween stars, but for the rest of us it's sort of like the cotton-candy scene%u2014we're not sure whether to eat it or rub our faces in it.
5. As shameless as trashy cookie-cutter studios movies will ever get.
6. Unfortunately, the performances are often clunky and the art direction and CG are wanting, so anyone over the age of eight is likely to find it cheap around the edges. One for very little mermaids.
7. The performances are charming, particularly JoJo Levesque, who is rapidly becoming the new Lindsay Lohan (only in a good way).
8. This fantasy comedy should entertain its pre-teen female market -- and repel those silly superficial boys (swoon).
9. This is when my job feels like work.
10. if you aren't expecting much, Aquamarine isn't an utterly awful way to spend an afternoon
A lighthearted, gum-smacking, boy-crazy film with a hopeful message for young girls.

1. A film filled with scenes of humor, suspense and stunning beauty.
2. A rousing affirmation of nature's brilliance in the face of environmental challenge.
3. For some reason, people love penguins. And March gives them plenty reason
4. Jacquet manipulates emotions with a zeal that seems unnecessary.
5. A brilliant tour of nature at its most unnervingly beautiful.
6. Who would have thought romantic paradise could be found in Antarctica?
7. Penguins, as the stirring new Antarctic documentary March of the Penguins makes clear, aren't cuddly.
8. Jacquet's penguins are as absorbing and incredible as any man-made phantasmagoria you'll find in the multiplex this summer, and it's all real.
9. The mating cycle of the Emperor Penguin of Antarctica involves incredible dedication, courage, and effort. So I am sure did making this documentary.
10. The original, primal charge of movies was their ability to take audiences somewhere they'd never been and show them things they'd never have seen on their own. March of the Penguins recaptures some of that long-ago wonder.

Only the most hardened soul won't be moved by this heartwarming doc.