A pleasant addition to the time-honored genre of terminally cute youth romance movies, roughly equivalent to staring at a saccharine greeting card for a while.
No one expects a light teen romance to be "Madame Bovary," but this is Colorforms filmmaking.
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe
Prinze charming, but can't save movie.
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Film.comJohn Hartl
Film.comJohn Hartl
A Boring Young Couple.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Stinko movies often unwittingly critique themselves -- and the brain-dead romantic comedy Down to You (which Miramax understandably didn't screen in advance for critics) is no exception.
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Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Prinze and Stiles regularly talk to the camera, but that doesn't make their characters self-aware.
Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.
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NewsweekTed Gideonse
NewsweekTed Gideonse
A disaster: dull, predictable, at times cringe-worthy.
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L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
One of those puppy-love movies that make you feel like you're slowly drowning.