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Trust me, this movie doesn't deliver on any level, high or low.

-Peter RainerFull Review

It's hard to remember a comedy so populated with good character bits.

-Nick PinkertonFull Review

A messy but occasionally very funny satirical comedy...

-David DenbyFull Review

Rudd might not be the subtlest straight man in movies, but, as of this moment, he's the best.

-David EdelsteinFull Review

Being taken under Apatow's wing may have been a big career break for writer-director David Wain, but this lacks the sharp personality of some of his earlier movies.

-J. R. JonesFull Review

[The] shaggy but agreeable Wanderlust [is] worth the detour.

-Dana StevensFull Review

It takes guts to do a comedy this big without gross-out slapstick, and the writers and the actors are all in.

-David EdelsteinFull Review

The leads are charming and although the plot twists are obvious, there are some funny scenes here.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

A comedy that looks way better than it actually is set amidst the dreck of late winter releases...

-Mary F. PolsFull Review

Paul Rudd is the best friend a movie comedy can have.

-Peter TraversFull Review

Much of the movie feels pasted together; the story doesn't flow, it staggers forward.

-Tom LongFull Review

As far as your humble correspondent knows, Wanderlust is the first mainstream movie ever to star a Floppy Prosthetic Penis.

-Rick GroenFull Review

"Wanderlust'' may lack the satiric edge of Albert Brooks' "Lost in America,'' but it does deliver more big laughs than most comedies these days.

-Lou LumenickFull Review

A shambling mix of cheap laughs and genuinely funny set pieces from writer-director David Wain.

-Ann HornadayFull Review

'Wanderlust' is equal parts fresh humor and stale jokes.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

Though Wanderlust has a silly-funny premise and moments of inspired lunacy, it wanders aimlessly and runs some weak gags into the ground.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

"Wanderlust" is an assembly line producing laughs.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

For every few jokes that hit in this story about a recession-battered New York couple finding themselves on a Georgia commune, one sputters and dies.

-Manohla DargisFull Review

So you think you've seen silly? And smarmy? And inept? Wait till you see "Wanderlust," though that's just a figure of speech; I'm not suggesting that you actually lay eyes on this naked grab for box office bucks.

-Joe MorgensternFull Review

[It] produces tons of laughs in its compact 90 minutes and doesn't overstay its welcome. The bad jokes are bad, but the good ones are great.

-Kara NesvigFull Review

Wain has always brought a kind of zany sensibility to his films, but he has never seemed more confident coloring outside the lines.

-Betsy SharkeyFull Review

Buried below the endless penis and poop jokes, a very funny movie lurks, one we only catch glimpses of amid a churning mire of icky stuff and dangling privates.

-Linda BarnardFull Review

This movie has no teeth. It does not want to say anything, other than the unprintable word for penis, over and over.

-Wesley MorrisFull Review

Wain's willingness to do anything for a laugh is a risk that pays off.

-Ian BuckwalterFull Review

It's an R-rated movie with a fair amount of nudity, a lot of sexual candor, truckloads of unspecified drugs, and more laughs than I've had at the movies in a very long time.

-Carrie RickeyFull Review

Wanderlust has its moments. It's sporadically funny - funny enough to deliver a good laugh or two. The problem is, it doesn't do more than that, and the comedy is inconsistent.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

"Wanderlust" feels about as edgy as an early Johnny Carson monologue and slightly less clever than a "Visualize Whirled Peas" bumper-sticker.

-Rafer GuzmanFull Review

"Wanderlust" achieves a tricky balance: It has enough laugh-out-loud moments that it wins you over, even though the movie as a whole doesn't add up.

-Moira MacDonaldFull Review

It's obvious "Wanderlust" was a lot more fun to make than it is to watch. But if you set enough funny people loose in front of a camera, they'll find a way to make you laugh, even if it's in spite of your better judgment.

-Barbara VanDenburghFull Review

Most of it is pretty funny stuff.

-Glenn KennyFull Review


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