Swingers Critic Reviews

The beauty of Swingers lies in the irony of its title: Despite their lounge-lizard posing, these guys will never really live up to their Rat Pack dreams.Read the full review

Confident of its emotional effects, Swingers knows how to breathe life into its people, and hooking audiences is its reward.Read the full review

Engaging, refreshingly human in its humor and becomingly modest in its aspirations, this hip look at being out of it announces some promising new talent and will play well with young audiences looking for comfortable entertainment that doesn't feel manufactured.Read the full review

Suspicious and hilariously self-absorbed, Favreau's every bit as comfortable in California as Charles Grodin's "Heartbreak Kid" was in Miami. [18 October 1996, p. C3]Read the full review

Swingers has something genuinely rare: a fine script and realistic characters.Read the full review

Uneven, amateurish and borderline misogynistic. But it's also very funny, and it never loses its cool.Read the full review

The movie is sweet, funny, observant and goofy with a small ``g,'' which means you don't get paid, but at least you don't have to wear the suit.Read the full review

It's no masterpiece, but it's real.Read the full review