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Oh, you will laugh. You may not forgive yourself for it easily, but you will laugh. You may well laugh to the point of pee stains in your underthings, and if you think that's gratuitous you have no idea.
—Andrew O'Hehir Salon
- 6
...while the stabs at grown-up insight miss their targets, pic still packs more pure comedic punch than the [directors] Farrellys' last few offerings...
—Andrew Barker Variety
- 6
Hall Pass would like to be as dunked in reality as Judd Apatow's best comedies, but the movie is thin.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 6
Hall Pass isn't consistently funny: It takes a while to get going, and throws in a few more subplots than it really needs. But a few jokes hit hard, the rest prove mildly amusing, and the care taken with the characters goes a long way.
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 6
A problem with Hall Pass, I think, is that both Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are affable, and the movie wants us to like them.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 5
...(has) tons of whiffs but still more solidly hit laughs than in a dozen Couples Retreats.
—Nick Pinkerton Village Voice
- 5
...an unbecoming and only fitfully funny account of two fortyish married guys making a final pathetic shot at playing the field.
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 5
In Hall Pass the Farrellys are exploring nominally adult realms, like marital fatigue and cheating, but too often these apparent good intentions get the best of them and their timing.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 5
...disappointingly conventional...
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...delivers the goods every couple of reels with the clockwork reliability of freefalls in a 007 flick.
—Bill Weber Slant Magazine
- 4
...none of (it) translates into comedy, thanks to the lack of energy between Wilson and Sudeikis.
—Jason Morgan filmcritic.com
- 4
It's almost impressive when a movie can manage to be both repellently vulgar and sickeningly sweet in the span of a mere two hours. Almost.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 4
After scoring big in 1998 with Mary - the zipper issue, the "hair gel" mix-up, the roving troubadours - their (Farrelly brothers) raw inventive edge has never been quite as sharp. Hall Pass, starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis, continues that creative slide into everyday crude.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
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It's easy to get prickly about Hall Pass' ethos that boobs and butts are great -- too bad they're attached to women's brains. But frankly, the film is even meaner to men. [7 March 2011, p.33]
—Alynda Wheat People
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Hall Pass is more like detention.
—Ande Dagan E!