Say It Isn't So Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

I must admit that I find those motifs -- and the Farrellys' universe in general -- more sweet than offensive, and I liked Say It Isn't So just so. So there.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

There are laughs here and there, and Graham and Klein aren't nearly as grating as what surrounds them. But there's no getting around the fact that far from seeming a labor of love, Say It Isn't So seems merely labored.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

Ultimately a sweet movie, but one made by people who can't stoop to conquer without an almost audible strain on their own intelligence.Read the full review

USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

It's so-so. As in mediocre. Even gross-out comedies need the stink of genius.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

A few clumps of very funny stuff (including a quick tonsorial reference to "Mary") can't hide all the spots that are bald instead of bold.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie doesn't understand that embarrassment comes in a sudden painful flush of realization; drag it out, and it's not embarrassment anymore, but public humiliation, which is a different condition, and not funny.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

In the same genre as the Farrellys' "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber," only lousy.Read the full review

Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites

Even dumb farce has to be built on logic, but that crumbles in the face of a set of tired routines playing off of stock types.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

All you really need to know about Say It Isn't So,the latest flatulent noisemaker from the Farrelly Brothers' gross-out comedy factory, is that late in the movie, Chris Klein punches a cow from behind and finds his arm stuck inside.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

What a jolly comedy theme: incest.Read the full review

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