Alex & Emma Critic Reviews

A desperately slight romantic comedy marked by contrived romance and little comedy.Read the full review

Though it has some mildly amusing moments (mostly in the visuals accompanying the novel's narration), Alex & Emma is disappointing, neither very romantic nor very comic.Read the full review

A cute and amusing little romance that has all the fiery impetuosity of an egg sandwich. Read the full review

Reiner gets lucky with his two stars. Wilson has charm to spare, and Hudson brings humor and sexiness to playing Emma and four au pair girls from different countries. But even they can't float a balloon with lead in it. Read the full review

Other than a high cuteness factor, there's not much here. This is a warmed-over, low-end recycling of director Rob Reiner's own "When Harry Met Sally."Read the full review

The movie and the movie-within-a-movie share a chemistry even more awkward than that of their flat-footed leads.Read the full review

Emma writes everything down and then offers helpful suggestions, although she fails to supply the most useful observation of all, which would be to observe that the entire novel is complete crap.Read the full review

The lack of sexual tension is astounding. Read the full review

It's hard to say what's more excruciating: Alex's novel, which is like ''The Great Gatsby'' rewritten by Lizzie McGuire, or his quarrelsome flirtation with Emma, who has no existence as a character apart from her drive to reshape Alex into a specimen of respectable tamed manhood. Read the full review