Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
It's ill-conceived, not funny, overbearing and not in any way worth watching.

Name : Kevin C. Johnson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The trailers for the Reese Witherspoon-Sofia Vergara comedy "Hot Pursuit" hint at a movie that's unfunny, insufferable and obvious. You can't say you weren't warned.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
If there's any sexist cliche or sitcom groaner missed by the guilty parties behind this cop-and-robber coupling, it's not for want of trying.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A toothless and nearly laughless buddy comedy.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
I'm a sucker for outtakes during end credits, even - maybe especially - when they're attached to subpar comedies like this one. Everyone was having such a hilarious time! I wish I could say the same!

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
[Witherspoon] seems unafraid to cut loose, and she and Vergara make a terrific team.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
One of them is short and the other one is Colombian - that's pretty much all there is to this milquetoast buddy comedy that ought to have premiered directly on seat-back airplane televisions.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
The blame lies with a dopey script, director Anne Fletcher and a lazy Hollywood assumption that female buddy flicks should be as half-assed as their male counterparts.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
"Hot Pursuit" feels like a comedy that forgot its comedian.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
If you've ever wondered what an Adam Sandler film starring Reese Witherspoon would look like, "Hot Pursuit" is it.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Wall Street Journal
While she can make static cinema as well as anybody in the boys club - Hot Pursuit is solid evidence of that - Ms. Fletcher also monkeys with the conventions enough to make one wonder what kind of mischief she could ultimately commit.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
I am tempted to say it's another sorry example of what women have to do to keep an acting career going today, when all the juicy roles go to men. Unfortunately they have only themselves to blame. They are both listed in the credits as executive producers.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
The only thing hot about "Hot Pursuit" is its scant 87-minute running time. And it still feels like four hours.

Name : Gary Thompson / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Short on laughs, even at 87 minutes.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Isn't this the sort of nitwit comedy Reese Witherspoon wasn't going to have to make anymore after becoming a producer on the likes of Wild and Gone Girl?

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara can't save this lazy, unfunny action-comedy.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Clearly, the idea here was to follow in the flatfootsteps of "The Heat": Funny ladies do funny cop-movie business. But with all the overacting and downright YELLING, comedy crumbles under the sonic assault.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Wastes the talents of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara as egregiously as one could possibly imagine, resorting to lame jokes, cliches and incompetent storytelling to pass the time.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
So bad you'd think it was directed by the worst sort of male chauvinist director.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Hot Pursuit" features one of the worst and most forced performances of Reese Witherspoon's career, an irritating performance by Sofia Vergara(whom I love on 'Modern Family') and a seemingly endless parade of lazy and arbitrary plot twists and turns.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's a chase film, it's a buddy film, it's a ridiculous, loud and often offensive romp. Witherspoon's character is cornball and annoyingly adrenalized - what was she thinking?

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
For someone with a background in choreography, Fletcher has no idea of how to sell physical comedy. Characters stumble around and drop things but there's no grace to their clumsiness, no punchline at the end of their embarrassment.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
We are in the midst of a comedy boom, and within it an explosion of feminist and woman-driven humor, but the news has apparently not reached Warner Bros. headquarters.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
There isn't one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality .

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Reese Witherspoon delivers a few minutes of superb physical humor in this otherwise worthless action comedy.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
A laugh could die of loneliness in this shrill, slapstick buddy farce. The proven comic gifts of Witherspoon and Vergara have gone MIA.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
"Hot Pursuit" isn't something you should pursue. Ever.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
In the pro forma end-credit outtakes, we see the stars muff their lines, mug for the camera, and generally have a good time. It's nice that someone does.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In a pairing of Witherspoon and Vergara, you might expect Vergara to be the funny one. But the script has Witherspoon playing for laughs, and Vergara acting as straight man. The balance is off.

Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
Witherspoon and Vergara are both experienced comedic actors with charisma to spare, and watching them pal around is a perfectly pleasant way to pass some time. But with material this uninspired, 87 minutes of riding shotgun is long enough.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
There's hardly an area in which Hot Pursuit is not found lacking.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
It's actually, actively worse than you think it's going to be.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
You could easily imagine these two in a sharper, edgier comedy. Maybe, if Hot Pursuit is a hit, the filmmakers can take a mulligan and reunite them for a faster, funnier sequel.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The dueling accents are meant to be part of some mounting joke, in which each woman sounds like an idiot to the other. It's not funny. Neither is most of the movie, which throws these two at a wall of gags and hopes they stick.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Adult dramas and comedies should at least have a toe in their audience's lives.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Crazy, Stupid, Love is the perfect combination of sexy, cute, wise, hilarious, and true.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
I laughed all the way through, thanks to both consistently clever dialogue and deft delivery from Carell and Gosling, who clearly relished a chance to flex his comic muscles.

Name : Kirk Honeycutt / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie suffers perhaps from too many characters and subplots but all the actors appear to have fun with their characters.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
It's a tonic for those beaten down by years of bad rom-coms. Love conquers all - and so, I suspect, will this movie. Just try to resist it.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" connects its characters in unexpected ways. But line to line, the script lacks wit and sophistication.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
During a summer when most of the other romantic comedies haven't been either, "Crazy, Stupid, Love" provides a fairly smart and sensible date-night choice.

Name : Carrie Rickey / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A Midsummer Night's PG-13 sex comedy.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
[A] pleasant surprise.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is not the ultimate romantic comedy - the one that makes you fall as hard for the characters as they do for one another while savoring their every interaction - but it seems fresher and less recycled than much of the product out there.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
It never gets crazy or stupid enough to make you truly fall in love with it.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Old-fashioned as that might sound, there's a fresh, insightful feel to this multigenerational love story.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Hampered by contrivances and the awkward melding of romantic comedy and family drama, the film falters.

Name : Karina Longworth / Alias : Village Voice
Carell and Gosling, each willing to take his character to the point of caricature in order to find the truth in him, have a nicely barbed chemistry together.

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
A genial, messy comedy of marital discord and mismatched lovers.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's romantic, touching, a little risque and screwball, yet reassuringly down-to-earth.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Every moment of mature insight in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" is answered by a scene of formulaic farce.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Carell is his dependable wounded-puppy self, always likable, but Gosling and Stone are fantastic.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Carell carries the comedy, while remaining grounded in the pain of the character, and so we care. It's also astonishing what good clothes and a haircut can do for a guy. There's a lesson in that for all of us.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The episodic plot encompasses a series of familiar gags about casual sex and finding your soul mate, few of them delivered with much enthusiasm.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Sorry, dudes. It seems we can't do anything right, but we're still funny. Sometimes.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" is a sweet romantic comedy about good-hearted people. Imagine that.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Pity the crowds expecting another cute comedy like "Date Night" who wind up at "Crazy, Stupid, Love." It'll be like asking for a burger and getting served escargot.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : Time Out New York
The directors show a great talent for jagged-edged farce.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Requa and Ficarra encourage grand statements and enormous reactions. They want pyrotechnic feeling, and their shamelessness works. It has no pretensions of depth, just more feeling.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : MSN Movies
The workmanship and effort are evident in every straining moment, but the end result is so completely phony as to be without value.

Name : Eric D. Snider / Alias : Film.com
A multi-threaded and well-organized comedy full of pleasant surprises and appealing characters.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" is, on balance, remarkably sane and reasonably smart.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
This grand romantic gesture about grand romantic gestures conjures up the bittersweet magic of first loves, lasting loves, lost loves and all the loves in between.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
None of this is much fun to watch. The pace drags. The acting is without contrast or color.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
For most of the way, Crazy, Stupid, Love coasts more than agreeably on the talents of four hugely charismatic actors and a tart, knowing script that tweaks the rom-com formula just enough to seem fresh.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Crazy Stupid Love veers schizophrenically between daring, jaw-dropping comedy and gooey sitcom cliches that weigh it down.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's a pleasure to come across the sharply funny and touching Crazy Stupid Love. It's a live one with a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
It gets better and funnier after a labored and lumbering start, which is entirely the opposite of most Hollywood comedies.

Name : Mary F. Pols / Alias : TIME Magazine
The movie's biggest surprise is the revelation of Gosling as cunning comedian.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
This is the sort of film that Oscar generally ignores come awards season. It shouldn't. Crazy Stupid Love is a crazy smart film.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The movie squanders its potential with a sloppy script chock full of false notes. Even the bumptious score intrudes, often bumping into important dialogue.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
In a genre where outright imbecility generally prevails, a film investigating craziness and stupidity qualifies as a cut above.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Fills its scenes with bright surprises while making an appealing new case for the old-fashioned notion of soul mates.

Name : Sam Adams / Alias : Los Angeles Times
There's strong, fleetingly powerful stuff in Crazy, Stupid, Love., but like its awkwardly punctuated title, the movie jerks to a halt just when it's beginning to flow.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
This is witless, saccharine and lifeless.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The movie has an unexpectedly high proportion of delights to groaners, and it's full of actors you'll want to see.