Critic Reviews

• David Jenkins, Time Out

  Tonally, the film is a shambles, clumsily veering from cheeky romance one minute, to crass 'that bloke just spunked on my windscreen!' japery the next.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  A feeble smut-fest of impressive tonal weirdness, which had me sniggering with it, at it, and in spite of myself.

• Edward Porter, Sunday Times (UK)

  Sordid, squelchy, bare-bottomed comedy is still the order of the day. And pretty feeble it is, too.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  I don't know how much Newcastle Brown you'd need to put back to make this film tolerable.

• Tim Evans, Sky Movies

  A premise this barking was never really going to work - Heppell and Treadaway's romance plays out like a Byker Grove tryst relocated to a Hartlepool knocking shop - and some of the all-too-authentic night vision scenes will struggle to find an audience.

• Jane Crowther, Total Film

  Dogging limps along like a three-legged mutt, neither dirty enough to titillate smut-seekers nor sweet enough to coax rom-com lovers into overlooking the night-vision humping.

• Nicholas Barber, Independent on Sunday

  The cast members have enough charm to make you wish you were seeing them in a film that didn't seem like such a terrible, terrible idea.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Despite strong work from its supporting cast, Dogging: A Love Story remains something of a disappointment, thanks to an irritating lead character and a poorly developed script.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  For a film about people who have sex in public places, this film is strangely sweet and shy about sex. Also in fine British tradition, it plays the romantic plotlines like a charmingly awkward farce.

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