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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardIt has incest, sweaty armpits, nipple rings, drool, an amputee, a stroke victim and an engagement ring stuck in a sticky place. And Heather Graham. All that, and it's not very funny.
- 38USA TodaySusan WloszczynaUSA TodaySusan WloszczynaIt's so-so. As in mediocre. Even gross-out comedies need the stink of genius.
- 30TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghMaybe gross-out romantic comedy is a shallow well, and it was simply Rogers's misfortune to find himself with a bucket full of sludge.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe 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.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIn the same genre as the Farrellys' "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber," only lousy.
- 25Portland OregonianKim MorganPortland OregonianKim MorganSimply something you don't want to touch.
- 20L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyL.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyThe humor stays on one low level throughout, and thus fades fast.
- 20Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterWhat a jolly comedy theme: incest.
- 20Film.comTom KeoghFilm.comTom KeoghI don't like Say It Isn't So, but I understand its karmic inevitability.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA black comedy in the form of vicarious serial punishment.