“Being single is a mess,” said Peter
Keough in The Boston Globe. So is
this muddled comedy about the
lives of the young and romantically
unattached. It follows guileless Alice
(Fifty Shades of Grey’s Dakota
Johnson), who breaks up with her
college boyfriend so she can
discover her true self in New York.
There she moves in with her babyhating
older sister (Leslie Mann)
and meets Robin (Rebel Wilson), a promiscuous party girl who
initiates Alice in the ways of singledom. You already know
where this is going, said Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-
Times. Mann’s character gets maternal and hearts are broken
smitten anyway”, because the number
of laughs and heart-tugging moments
are so perfectly balanced that you
can’t help but root for our heroines.
It’s all good fun – for about an
hour, said Mick LaSalle in the
San Francisco Chronicle. Then
“symptoms of desperation kick
in”, with contrived third-act fights
between Alice and Robin and
barely disguising the fact that the stakes are pretty low for
20-something Alice, whose single status is hardly tragic.
A bawdy rom-com that aims to freshen the genre ends up
being “phony in the most obvious way”.
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