Critic Reviews

• John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

  A dinner of week-old turkey legs and stale mead would be more fun than this Ren Faire-set rom-com disaster.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  Peaks with its animated opening credits.

• Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

  Finding a fresh setting for a comedy is difficult, but a Renaissance fair is too broad a target.

• Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

  Only Ann-Margret, as the fair's reigning queen, retains her dignity.

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  Marshall does manage a breezy, good-natured tone toward this oft-mocked cultural phenomenon that allows for eye-rolling and smiling in equal measure.

• John Anderson, Variety

  We've seen this kind of thing before; it was old when Bill Murray did it in Meatballs.

• Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate

  Cheeky and underwhelming, quickly to be filed under 'forgettable films.'

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  A prime contender for 2011's biggest cinematic embarrassment.

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  Avoid this one like the pox.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  "Faire" is as predictable as boils on a plague victim, and its romantic complications are generic, but the script is amusing and, zounds, it's nice to see Ann-Margret in the supporting role of a RenFest monarch.

• Matt Pais, RedEye

  If you don't like the word 'penis' but crack up at the use of 'wang,' 'ding dong,' 'wenis' and 'wiener,' this is your movie.

• Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix

  Some name talent probably won't be putting Scott Marshall's 2009 stinker on their résumés.

• Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

  A TV movie-grade romantic farce that's practically medieval in its cornball conventionality.

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