Critic Reviews

• Guy Lodge, Variety

  The Knot finds a bumbling groomsman fishing for silver wedding bands in a diarrhea-filled toilet bowl. Viewers searching for moments of wit or insight ... might relate.

• Dave Calhoun, Time Out

  'The Knot' mostly plumps for the usual clichés and stereotypes.

• Rich Cline, Contactmusic.com

  Clearly intent on being a British Hangover/Bridesmaids hybrid, this comedy romp doesn't contain a single laugh. It doesn't help that all of the characters are deeply unlikeable, or that the humour is literally centred in the toilet.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  An offensive anthology of every loud, lewd and loathsome wedding joke staged or screened between The Taming of the Shrew and The Hangover.

• David Aldridge, Radio Times

  If you can ignore the ill-judged slapstick and daft plot developments, it makes for diverting enough entertainment.

• Graham Young, Birmingham Mail

  The Knot is the wedding movie to end all wedding movies - because if this isn't the end of a trend, heaven help us.

• Allan Hunter, Daily Express

  Bridesmaids, The Hangover and countless others have adequately covered the same territory and The Knot feels like a poor, cartoon-like imitation.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  Almost everything is reduced to gross-out moments that are about as funny as a yak's poo so that when love conquers all in the end you don't believe it for a moment.

• Grant Rollings, Sun Online

  I would have happily jilted The Knot at the altar.

• Christopher Tookey, Daily Mail [UK]

  All the film-makers do is show us things that raised a laugh in other movies - a bride with diarrhoea, lads vomiting, a little girl emitting obscenities.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  There are some gross-out toilet moments that I suspect are inspired by the recent US hit Bridesmaids, but that movie had laughs and a lot of heart. The Knot, sadly, has neither.

• Paul Gallagher, The List

  Has the slapdash, half-finished quality of a high-school play, or perhaps a home video in which everyone involved is convinced that what they are creating is hilarious. In fact, it is not only unfunny and tedious but also hugely unpleasant.

• Roz Laws, Birmingham Post

  Every cliché you can think of happens, down to the groom not being able to find the church.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Relies too heavily on gross-out gags and laddish humour and fails to provide either likeable characters or believeable relationships.

• , Sky Movies

  Knot funny.

• Joe Cunningham, Empire Magazine

  A reminder of exactly how good Bridesmaids was, this British facsimile fails to replicate its charms or laugh count.

• Kate Stables, Total Film

  Nothing if not predictable.

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