Anger Management Critic Reviews
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The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable. Read the full review
Miller time for the funny bone.Read the full review
It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk. Read the full review
Only a smattering of the potential is realized in this tolerable disappointment, which is so unworthy of getting angry about that it will still become a knee-jerk hit. Read the full review
Essentially a one-joke movie that milks its central conceit long after there's nothing left. Read the full review
The antics here are strained, graceless and tiresomely crude, the sorts of things audiences feel they're supposed to laugh at rather than well-developed situations that generate genuine amusement. Read the full review
Undercooked, although it feels enough like a comedy for you to swallow it if you have to. Read the full review
The concept is inspired. The execution is lame. Anger Management, a film that might have been one of Adam Sandler's best, becomes one of Jack Nicholson's worst. Read the full review
Isn't all bad. It isn't good, either, but it's better than it deserves to be, and if one sits and watches, the laughs do come, a few. Read the full review
Doesn't possess the discipline to peel laughs off its potentially riotous premise. Instead, Segal and company grope desperately for every low gag they can find, whether or not it has anything to do with the story. Read the full review