Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Critic Reviews

The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun.Read the full review

Lacks the kind of forceful, attention-grabbing chemistry that elevates a movie in this genre from a passable diversion to a lasting source of entertainment.Read the full review

An amusingly sentimental whiff of a romantic comedy.Read the full review

Ghosts is better-than-average McConaughey swill, but not by much - that's its pleasure and its curse.Read the full review

It's not particularly funny to hear women described and valued exclusively in terms of their function as disposable sexual partners. A lot of Connor's dialogue is just plain sadistic and qualifies him as that part of an ass it shares with a doughnut.Read the full review

Ghosts can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a racy raunchfest or a sentimental celebration of soul mates. So it ends up being a sappy, sleazy hybrid.Read the full review

Has some laughs - more than a few thanks to Michael Douglas as a dead swinger (the movie's Jacob Marley) - and some moments of tenderness, too.Read the full review

At least Douglas has a good time bringing the smarminess that McConaughey so studiously avoids.Read the full review

Mostly clunky and vaguely unsavory.Read the full review