- 10
Crazy, Stupid, Love is the perfect combination of sexy, cute, wise, hilarious, and true.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 8
...there's a fresh, insightful feel to this multigenerational love story...
—Peter Debruge Variety
- 8
Between the writing, acting, directing and the rest, it works. Not crazy, not stupid, and filled with love. Period.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 8
...supplies plenty of laughs but truly impresses in the low-key moments, revealing genuine warmth for its characters.
—Peter Paras E!
- 7
...a shrewdly written comedy with perhaps too many characters and subplots but they nonetheless produce laughs.
—Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter
- 7
What makes Crazy Stupid Love a cut above is actors who let pain seep into the laughs. Here's a comedy you really can take to heart.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 7
...a sweet romantic comedy about good-hearted people.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 7
...remarkably sane and reasonably smart.
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 7
Shooting on grainy, high-speed film stock with an often handheld camera, working with a suite of actors who are game to both play light and silly and dig deep, Ficarra and Requa lend a naturalism to highly contrived, patently absurd situations.
—Karina Longworth Village Voice
- 7
Crazy makes serious missteps ... but it will leave you feeling pretty high on love. [8 August 2011, p.35]
—Alynda Wheat People
- 6
...tamer and less inventive than the directors' demented and exciting debut, I Love You Phillip Morris...
—Chris Cabin filmcritic.com
- 6
...sometimes captures the complexity, humor and sweetness of relationships. But in several scenes, the film takes that insight and replaces it with farcical coincidences and strained scenarios that undercut the poignancy and wit.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 5
...can't help but register as utterly conventional in the worst sense of the term; that is, it relies on the conventions of the genre to reinforce conventional models of living.
—Andrew Schenker Slant Magazine
- 5
...an unstable if fairly diverting case of 21st century characters caught in a 19th century Feydeau-style plot machine, featuring an ensemble doing all it can to finesse the swings between melancholic pathos and Meet the Fockers-level slapstick.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
For most of the way, Crazy, Stupid, Love coasts more than agreeably on the talents of four hugely charismatic actors and a tart, knowing script that tweaks the rom-com formula just enough to seem fresh.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 5
...even the surprises are, in a way, unsurprising.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor