Critic Reviews

• Guy Lodge, Time Out

  Frivolous stuff, but there's a sour edge to the silliness, with far more gay panic colouring the jokes than you'd expect from the director of 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.'

• Niki Boyle, The List

  An out-and-out failure.

• John Ferguson, Radio Times

  A largely unfunny blend of frantic farce and gross-out humour.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  This Australian Hangover-style ensemble comedy strains so hard to be funny that it barely raises a smile

• Rich Cline, Contactmusic.com

  Director Elliott (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) tells this story with an odd combination of tourist-bureau style backdrops and full-on slapstick mayhem

• Alex Zane, Sun Online

  When it eventually does let loose and go for some big gross out laughs - like feeding a sheep laxatives - it starts to work, but it's too little too late.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  When embarrassment fails to be funny, it ends up as truly excruciating, and such is the case here.

• Donald Clarke, Irish Times

  This stomach-churningly dreadful film proves that our friends in the Southern Hemisphere can scrape corners of the barrel inaccessible to even the most fetid American imaginations.

• Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express

  No question this is dumb and derivative and the characters are generally obnoxious but it's raucous, energetic and enlivened by a game Olivia Newton-John ...

• Graham Young, Birmingham Mail

  In a nutshell, it's just another foul-mouthed, British-flavoured wedding movie with a cast of uncouth young men trying to be as rude as possible.

• , Liverpool Echo

  A Few Best Men leaves logic standing at the altar as its two dimensional characters stumble from one faux pas to the next.

• Caroline Jowett, Daily Express

  Director Stephan Elliott made The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert but here he doesn't seem to know his farce from his elbow.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  There isn't one single laugh here for anyone who doesn't think that women are disgusting, men are morons, homosexuality is terrifying, and friendship is about cruelty and envy.

• Phelim O'Neill, Guardian [UK]

  What must have seemed at some point in production to be charming and hilarious arrives on screen as neither of those things.

• Jason Best, Movie Talk

  How can you resist a film in which Aussie national treasure Olivia Newton-John as the bride's mother lets her hair down for a raucous, cocaine-fuelled jag?

• Antonia Quirke, Financial Times

  Bed, barf and beyond ...

• Marc Lee, Daily Telegraph

  The humour never rises above the level of burp, puke and fart jokes ...

• Alison Jones, Birmingham Post

  There are no real belly laughs and it lacks the sureness of touch and character of other Australian comedies.

• David Jenkins, Little White Lies

  Hateful characters, stupid situations, woeful filmmaking.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Tries painfully hard to be funny but fails in the attempt, thanks to an over-indulgent script, lacklustre romantic leads and unlikeable main characters ...

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