1. What a lovely way to spend an afternoon.
2. This modest story works because of committed performances from both actors.
3. A parochial French time-passer which waddles along amiably and then ends unforgivably.
4. A movie that parts the clouds to reveal a surprising sunniness.
5. An affable reminder that the French are just as capable of making cornball cinema as any Hollywood studio.
6. This sentimental tale of a barely literate man's awakening at the hands of an elderly bibliophile is generally as painless as it is hackneyed.
7. That so many of the colossal yokel's mental states are literalized, as when the screen fills with thousands of rats while Margueritte reads Camus's The Plague aloud to her new pal, typifies the movie's antipathy to nuance.
8. It rarely rises above the pedestrian.
9. This little gem is all about the nature of chance encounters and how they can change us in unexpected ways.
10. A tender and touching love story in a small French town where two unlikely people connect in an appealing and magical way.
Consensus: It's sentimental and treacly, but that's not enough to prevent My Afternoons with Margueritte from being truly affecting.
Q: 1. Rudd and Carell turn out to be a near-perfect double act, with Rudd's exasperated, manic nice guy act a perfect foil for Carell, who gives the kind of broad, nutty, idiot man-child performance we haven't seen from him since his Anchorman days.
2. Remarkably, they have managed to take a very funny original film, some very talented comedians and created an experience akin to a dentist visit.
3. It's hard to feel sorry for someone who seems to instigate so many of his own problems.
4. Steve Carell and Paul Rudd fizzle in this dire, painfully overlong comedy bomb.
5. Dinner for Schmucks, while not as instantly iconic and defined as [Jay Roach's] previous work, still delivers a lot of entertainment.
6. The humour is spasmodic, but for a new target audience of 18 to 34 year olds (not the same crowd that loved the original) the film may offer a simplistic escape and some oddball ideas
7. A comic misadventure that unfolds like a never-ending series of dastardly mistakes.
8. Dinner For Schmucks is hilariously entertaining. Its pointed messages, meanwhile, make it even more meaningful.
9. It wasn't going to be Anchorman 2 but we still expected more from Brick Tamland's reunion with Brian Fantana.
10. A sweet and sentimental comedy that has the potential to be plum duff but too often is just duff.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: It doesn't honor its source material -- or its immensely likable leads -- as well as it should, but Dinner for Schmucks offers fitfully nourishing comedy.
1. The four leads are all capable stewards of their characters, each with their own sunniness and charm.
2. A shapely sequel that retains much of the sparkle and warmth that made the original such a pleasant surprise.
3. With very little sex and very little city, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 still seems a good bet to grab a sizable chunk of the underserved chick-flick demographic.
4. The movie equivalent of being patted on the shoulder by an encouraging high school guidance counselor and assured that you are doing just fine.
5. Even cynics might concede that, again, four capable actresses have pulled off a relatively rare thing: They've convinced us they're an honest-to-God movie sisterhood.
6. In the end it has a nice lesson about life and friendship, but man! The trip there is so superficial and sappy that it's not much fun at all.
7. A distractingly kaleidoscopic look at four familiar coming-of-age adventures.
8. Simply a sweet and satisfying time in the company of characters we like and understand.
9. Charts the difficulties four young women have in keeping alive their friendship and the ritual that animates it.
10. for its target audience it's going to prove even better than finding that perfect pair of pants in your size.
Consensus: The workable chemistry among the four leads combined with the enriching message make for a winning Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Q: 1. The only thing that will keep your attention for the duration is the stunning Tahitian scenery that acts the films setting. On reflection this is probably what swayed most of the cast to sign up to this inane guff of a film in the first place.
2. A loo book written by Pol Pot would have more laughs than this chillingly unfunny, cynically prefabricated non-comedy.
3. It is this vanity, this overweening self-regard, that makes Couples Retreat such a chore to sit through.
4. Rather like an unsuitable partner, Couples Retreat starts out fun before gradually getting annoying and then becoming downright aggravating. While it's not the worst film ever, there are times when it feels as irritating as sunburn.
5. Expectations of farce are stymied by long stretches of mid-life navel gazing.
6. Three of the four principal guys in this comedy are well over 15 stone - making them clinically obese by their body mass indexes. They need to lose weight not lessons in "couples skills building."
7. A rom-com short on romance and even shorter on laughs.
8. Bora Bora was a beautiful location to film at and added that much needed taste of paradise to a rather bitter sweet subject of a troubled marriage.
9. Universal's latest is merely adequate, and will likely be best enjoyed by the happily indulgent and mildly inebriated.
10. Entertainment on a par with sitting through your neighbours' holiday slideshow.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Despite a talented cast and some reliably pleasant interplay between Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, Couples Retreat leaves viewers stranded in an arid, mirthless comedy.
1. This messy masterpiece is the year's funniest comedy and a weird, winking affirmation of the power of the people.
2. As sci-fi spoofs go, Mars Attacks! may never be topped.
3. Despite the very slow start, Mars Attacks! delivers the goods.
4. An acquired taste.
5. A skewed marriage of mainstream pop and Burton's own eccentricity
6. Like a well-constructed bad painting, there is much to admire in the film, but the net effect leaves you dispassionate.
7. As light entertainment, Mars Attacks! gave me more pleasure than most other recent movies I've seen.
8. Just when you're about to give up hope, suddenly the aliens land, the gags start flying faster and faster, and the movie gets great in a hurry.
9. A throwaway piece of pop ephemera, like a '90s Casino Royale, momentarily arresting and soon forgotten.
10. A stillborn affair that could have been -- and should have been -- a whole lot hipper and funnier.

Consensus: Tim Burton's alien invasion spoof faithfully recreates the wooden characters and schlocky story of cheesy '50s sci-fi and Ed Wood movies -- perhaps a little too faithfully for audiences.