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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
M18 (SINGAPORE)
2016
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
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Negative reviews
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3.2
Advertisement Its hard to blame Devine for committing so hard and so loud; the movies whole comic style is wildly undisciplined.
Av Club
3.5
A better title for Dates, penned by the same team behind Neighbors, might be Wedding Smashers; there arent many slapstick or scatological places the s ..
EW
1.9
It hammers us over the head with the same handful of jokes in hopes of beating us into submission.
Rogerebert
2.0
The movie does have themes about the importance of loyalty and family, but theyre pretty buried by all the over the top content.
Common Sense Media
3.5
If its true that every generation gets the Wedding Crashers it deserves, then millennials have finally gotten some definitive proof that theyre doing ..
Indie Wire
3.5
The film could have used more of the classic screwball structure that gave Wedding Crashers its comic punch.
Variety
3.0
Yet, the cast delivers uniformly strong performances, lending enough humor and heart to their characters to emotionally ground the insanity contained ..
We Got This Covered
3.0
You never quite believe these women belong with Devine and Efrons Hollywood generic douche bags it feels like a failure of the script, if not the enti ..
Time Out
2.0
Showing girls being just as crass and idiotic as their male counterparts is not quite the equality we should be aiming for.
The Guardian
4.0
Ill leave it to others to root around for any feminist messages in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
The Guardian
3.1
And if its ultimately too slapdash to be the minor comedy classic it occasionally feels like it almost couldve been, the films fresh looseness doesnt ..
2.5
Those looking for a sex and drugs obsessed comedy might be satisfied, but Mike And Dave may have a tough time expanding beyond that base, especially w ..
Screen Daily
2.5
But its kind of a dud when it comes to endurance and imaginative moves.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.0
Scatologically speaking, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is best described as one of those summer movie turds: It passes easily and then disappears w ..
1.0
The story is immaterial, and boilerplate.Adam Devine plays Mike; Zac Efron plays his brother, Dave.
The New York Times
2.7
The best way to enjoy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, then, is as a shaggy series of comic episodes pitting four wildly different performance styles ..
Paste Magazine
2.8
Quickly fizzles out when it becomes apparent that whats being shown on screen is less than necessary to the storys development.
IGN
3.0
Mike and Dave is not promising.This pair are such flailing pariahs at family gatherings that an interventions required to keep things in check: their ..
Telegraph
2.5
Doesnt even convincingly craft its own internal reality. There are no rules or character motivations, words come out of Zac Efrons mouth when it isnt ..
5.0
The beauty of the film is that, though it is utterly coarse in its content, its not coarse or sloppy in its craftsmanship.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.8
It completely forgets to humanize its characters, instead just using them as props for a bunch of dirty jokes.Without relatability, there is nothing m ..
The Young Folks
2.0
But for all its zeitgeisty jokes, the film is not quite as progressive as it thinks it is.
3.5
But Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates builds well, ultimately gets the best out of its cast, and delivers enough laughs to be more than worthwhile, if ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
Theres a certain level of genius and skill in the way Plaza plays wild girl Tatiana as she pretends to be shy and demure, but also remains aggressive ..
Ny Daily News
3.0
At times this wedding disaster flick feels all too familiar and predictable.
JoBlo
2.0
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates hits the basic mandates of R rated comedy but falls flat in its effort to be as insightful as it is funny.
Screen Rant
1.3
For a nanosecond I was intrigued could this movie be secretly radical.Is the relentless idiocy of its characters actually a subversive poke at the glo ..
The Globe And Mail
3.1
It wants to be Wedding Crashers, but its not nearly as memorable, smart, or sweet.
Philly
3.1
But the girls go wild and they make Mike and Dave as nasty as they wanna be, and a pleasantly pervy surprise of a summer comedy.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.8
Its not for all tastes (certainly not mine), but for those who find such raunchy comedies funny this one is at least well executed.
Sover
2.5
The ability to make a good comedy has become a lost art and much of what we see is like this.The expectation is that well laugh because its supposed t ..
ReelViews
1.5
The sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising grossed just over a third of the originals movie take.
Blu Ray
2.5
Mike and Dave may need wedding dates, but the producers need a date movie.
Chicago Reader
2.5
The performers are adept enough to make it work occasionally, but Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates simply doesnt offer them characters who are worthy ..
Mark Reviews Movies
1.3
And while the movie does flounder in the aftermath of that big first act set piece, Star Trek Beyond eventually recovers and settles to become a fairl ..
Reel Film Reviews
4.5
This is a really good movie to watch if you dont want to think about anything.
You Tube
1.0
What can you say about a Hollywood comedy that features a comedy second act rape sequence in a massage parlour
The Times
3.2
The buffoons are likable, even sympathetic, and the time spent with them passes like a cool Hawaiian breeze.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
In fact, the entire film feels designed to disprove the idea that bad material gets funnier the longer and louder you scream it.
News Review
2.0
But Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates cant even clear its own low comedic bar.
News Review
3.0
But its entertaining and diverting enough for those looking for a decently dumb time at the movies.
Screen It
3.1
Given the idiot title, you may be surprised that the story has roots in the factual.
Rolling Stone
2.0
Mostly, though, its the lame ad libbing you can always see it coming, too, as when the bride reveals her scarred face that really suggests the improvi ..
The Wrap
2.5
Seemingly stitched together on the fly, the boisterous saga shows little interest in narrative ingenuity or cohesionand is better off for it, treating ..
Film Journal
3.8
Most of the comedy is funny, some of it is hilarious, and even the scenes that dont really work (such as the bizarre nude massage that amounts to the ..
New York Post
2.0
A good stupid comedy doesnt have to have an abundance of brains (duh), but it should have some heart.The inevitable heart of gold bit isnt earned.
Az Central
3.8
The film has a pile of sketches rather than a story, but its a jubilant mess.
Star Tribune
3.5
And the overall mood never descends into the sentimental, which is what usually what kills the over the top humor of movies like this one.Its nice to ..
3.1
Its with good reason.Mike (DeVine, a Grade A ham) and Dave (Efron repeating his still funny overgrown frat boy shtick) spend much of their time doing ..
Toronto Star
2.0
Efron needs a new agent, who doesnt seemingly insist on a clause that he has to take his shirt off in every film.
Daily Mail
3.0
But this isnt a battle of the sexes comedy, instead it plays more like a romantic Dumb and Dumber with a cute edge.
Flim List
3.0
Sure, that is pretty much predictable, but it works here and never once feels as if the movie is going through the motions thanks to its game cast ful ..
Flickering Myth
1.5
A fine cast goes to waste in this risk free and cliche riddled comedy.
New Yorker
4.0
But the movies real value is that its crude and funny for no defensible reason.
Time
2.0
DC Comics, by contrast, remains marooned in a grim, dystopian universe of over dressed visuals and bombast with a roll call of mostly unappealing char ..
Express
2.8
More favorable than a certain Adam Sandler Hawaiian vacation comedy, if at times no less offensive, the film delivers a few big laughs even if a few n ..
The Film Stage
2.5
Devines slackadaisical approach infects the rest of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, which starts out amusingly enough before caving in to a forced m ..
Boston Globe
1.8
These characters are just a collection of manic tics and bits from other movies adding female versions of them doesnt really help.
Uproxx
2.5
The inconsistent character development fits with the inconsistent humor in a movie that falters as often as it shines.
Las Vegas Weekly
2.5
There are a handful of absurd, undeniably silly moments that got me to snicker.
Movie Freak
2.5
The movie goes for a bawdy, outrageous vibe and big laughs, which it lands less than half the time.
Detroit News
0.6
Plaza and Kendrick wring a few deadpan chuckles, but all around its a shame that talented performers (especially the women) are wasted on such dire ma ..
Groucho Reviews
1.3
At their best, raunchy comedies are funny in an almost shocking way that leaves you laughing and gasping simultaneously.
Aisle Seat
2.0
Efron and Devine start out very strong as an anything for laughs pairing, but like the movie itself, their connections grows progressively weaker thro ..
Herald Sun
2.2
An uneven blend of American Pie and Forgetting Sarah Marshall thats as vapid as its protagonists and lacking in the improvisational laughs its cast so ..
Consequence Of Sound
3.1
No, what Mike and Dave really need are bigger and better jokes.Its not that the filmmakers dont understand the genre.
Nj
2.0
The film also vies to be profound in the latter stages, but director Jake Szymanski simply hasnt earned the right to be earnestly romantic when the wh ..
Hey U Guys
3.0
But while it does suffer from inconsistent characters and a clunky first act, the energetic debauchery, improvised one liners and memorable bit parts ..
Now Toronto
2.5
This convoluted attempt at a bromantic comedy aimed at millennials is filled with cliched antics reminiscent of but not quite as hilarious as Wedding ..
Film School Rejects
3.5
Though Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates is your typical screwball comedy, the writing does touch on pretty heavy themes with a surprising level of emo ..
Film Ink
1.0
Given what passes for comedy in the modern erawhere movies like The Hangover and Bridesmaids are box office hitsits impossible to guess how audiences ..
Maki At The Movies
1.0
Its just a lot of innuendo, double entendres, and impromptu dancing as if making faces and spontaneously shimmying in place can effectively take the p ..
2.5
Sometimes a movie seems as if it was more fun to make than it is to watch.
La Weekly
3.0
Efron is reliably amusing, but the gags (most of them very, very rude) miss as much as they hit.
Mirror
2.0
Those with fond memories of a gentler era of boy and his insert critter here heartwarmers are bound to welcome Dragons old fashioned vibe.
Games Radar
1.5
While Efron and DeVine definitely have chemistry theres no truly standout gags in the package no pun intended.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.0
It might be unfair to compare this aggressively average gross out comedy which sits in some depressing space between Trainwreck and Dirty Grandpa to a ..
Lw Lies
3.0
The humour is dirty, with an emphasis on crude dialogue as opposed to gross sight gags.
Nz Herald
2.5
In Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, hard partying brothers Mike (Adam Devine, center left) and Dave (Zac Efron, center right) place an online ad to f ..
Kansas City
1.0
Both suck with a truly punishing consistency.The best joke is probably a mean spirited mocking of singer Seals face.
Flicks
3.1
Throw in some ecstasy and dick jokes, and youve got yourself a comedy.
Red Eye Chicago
1.5
Alas, from the lame premise to the dumb execution, M&DNWD ends up feeling super dated.
The Stranger
2.5
A short film with a long title, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is a brisk and frantic comedy that tries hard to be hilarious.
Independent Ie
2.0
So when the script strains to bring some emotional sentimentality into the nutty climax, it feels painfully manipulative.
Contact Music
3.7
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates proves that raunchy, booze soaked comedies work only when the audience has more fun than the people on screen.
Ar Kansas Online
1.5
The emphasis on crude gags and free flowing one liners is insufferable.
Film Racket
3.0
The guys endless variations reacting with horror to the results of the bride to bes run in with an ATV is terrific; Kendrick wearing a horse for perfe ..
Killer Movie Reviews
2.5
Its an obnoxious Judd Apatow knockoff missing the heart and sweetness to complement the raunchy and ribald.
Patriot Ledger
1.0
Its a kind of dirty joke with all the dirty bits edited out, and whats the point of that
Scmp
3.8
Thats the underlying premise of the surprisingly engaging and very funny Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
Chicago Sun Times
3.0
Thats refreshing in and of itself.Another great moment, possibly the best of the entire film, involves a cameo bystandout, Kumail Nanjiani, who delive ..
Punch Drunk Critics
2.5
But beyond their wild ways, the two women here also convey a sense of sadness and show the deeper insecurities of their characters.
Straits Times
2.0
Somehow, this film is the rare rom com that rewards a party girl rather than forces her to change.
The Ringer
3.0
But theres a kind of happy ending to this.Despite the Stangles claim that its 80 percent true, the movie based on their Tucker Max y cash in book Mike ..
Metro New York
2.0
Mixing slapstick humour with a heavy reliance on improvisation from as many wacko characters as possible, this is a 98 minute mess of a summer flick.
One Room With A View
3.8
This movie may be mostly about the men, but the women rule, especially Beards bride to be, a lightning bolt of comic bite and brilliance (her nude the ..
Daily Herald
2.0
Lazy script and missed opportunities aside, the stunning sight of luxurious beaches and glorious sunshine can always make for welcome viewing and a po ..
The Shiz Nit
3.1
It is actually quite dumb.However, one could do worse than sit through an agreeable enough dumb comedy with such talented actors.
Awards Circuit
1.0
The film is a meditation on grief, celebrity, marriage and parenthood, but while it offers incidental pleasures and insights, it doesnt have the emoti ..
Scots Man
2.0
Its when it comes to filling in the details that Szymanskis film takes its extensive liberties.
No La
3.0
Szymanski follows the same gameplan as Dude, Wheres my Car and the like, making a movie so silly and so self consciously ridiculous that its better ju ..
The Ooh Tray
2.0
Rowdy brothers Adam DeVine and Zac Efron invite even rowdier Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick to their sisters Hawaiian wedding in this raunchy comedy, ..
What So
1.0
Newbie director Jake Szymanski and writers Andrew Cohen and Brendan OBrien dont seem to grasp the essence of farce. This is more fart ...
Or Lando Weekly
3.0
Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates succeeds as a fizzy summer comedy largely because it raises so few expectations.
reason
2.5
And the resultant movie is like a lot of weddings: sporadically fun, draggy in spots, ultimately forgettable.
Seattle Times
2.5
Nonetheless, even as it squanders its one true movie staras well as burdens Kendrick with a role that uneasily straddles the line between out of contr ..
Film Journal International ..
3.0
click well with each other and have their moment to stretch their comedic muscles, making MIKE AND DAVE an uproarious time well spent.
Fresh Fiction
1.5
How many times are we supposed to watch Alice get hammered and still think its a subversive hoot.I lost count of the dick jokes Tatiana made.
Seven Day Svt
1.9
When you make a film so extreme in depicting silliness, you land on cartoonish buffoonery instead of something emotionally resonant.
National Post
1.0
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates also needs a lot of other things such as a better screenplay, better jokes, better editing, and a better movie.
Rendy Reviews
2.0
Synopsis Party loving brothers Dave (Zac Efron) and Mike Stangle (Adam DeVine) need to sort their acts out.
Sky
3.5
Once everybodys in Oahu, chaos and a herd of horses break loose.If youve only seen Kendrick in her mainstream films so far, you may be shocked to find ..
Fw Weekly
3.1
Obvious Hangover style scenes eventually fall by the wayside, and the film nicely avoids being yet one more nail in the coffin of contemporary dude br ..
Film Frenzy
3.0
There is nothing in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates that hasnt been done before.That its still occasionally amusing is to its great credit.
Blog Bullz Eye
2.5
Never wacky, weird, or wise asshat enough, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates rings hollow in its daring and just hits too many false comic notes.
Vue Weekly
1.9
The best R rated movies mixed the sweet and sour with engaging results.
Hollywood Into To
3.5
Surprisingly, the lazy throwaway jokes pack the biggest Hawaiian punch.The actors pepper their lines with snappy pop culture inflected flair, ranging ..
Us Magazine
2.5
Anna Kendrick steals the show when shes onscreen but one wishes that the script itself was worthy of this concept and her talent.
Johnhanlon Reviews
2.5
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates succeeds with gags, but it fails to build a lasting comedy relationship with its audience, meaning well only remember ..
Tulsa World
3.5
In fact, it delights in its crassness so thoroughly that its hard not to have fun even when things get gratuitous.
1.0
In a sense, this is an amazing movie: a comedy where absolutely nothing is funny and every gag misfires.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
2.5
No classic, but it keeps its energy level up and gives some gifted female performers a lot of slapstick to do.
Heral
3.0
On film their inane conduct and silly slapstick is a fast, funny way to spend ninety minutes.
Richard Crouse
2.5
Writers Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan OBrien rely on the dynamic between Efrons straight man and DeVines screeching tantrums, but their lack of comedic ..
Willamette Week
2.5
At its worst its a genuine mess with overkill in both plotting and acting.
The Film Experience
2.5
Then there are the shocking jokes that simply dont land, coupled with incredibly shoddy production values.
Abc News Go
2.5
But the film doesnt have ambition beyond presenting pubic hair jokes and wacky drug trips.
MLive.com
2.5
Reminding of 2008s Forgetting Sarah Marshall and 2011s Just Go with It but not as rewarding as either of those films, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ..
The Film File
2.0
Hollywood demands that the wedding is messed up, so no surprises there, nor in what happens afterwards.All four actors have great comic timing and the ..
Iol Co Za
3.5
It isnt surprising that Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is written by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan OBrien as it encompasses the same humor that they ..
FlickDirect
1.2
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Stardem
3.0
Nerve loses its way towards the end, but its slickly done, inventive, and will press all the right keys for its teen and twentysomething target audien ..
Herald Scotland
2.0
Honestly, if Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates had less of Mike and Dave, it may have been more than passable.
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
1.0
A relentless parade of raucous gags, each attempting to up the stakes in shock value, but each falling completely flat and winding up mercifully unfun ..
The Jam Report
3.8
Theres a sense of joy the cast and filmmakers had in making the movie, which pays off onscreen in steady belly laughs.
K Gun 9
3.0
Mike and Dave arguably pushes this further with its unapologetically sexual and boisterous women, but at a certain point it isnt enough to merely do e ..
Bk Mag
0.5
Even the usually reliable end credits blooper reel couldnt bring me any comedy solace.
Newshub (NZ)
2.5
In the end, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is an underwhelming comedy that leans too much on being absurd that even in its absurdity, the fun factor ..
Movies With Mae
2.5
It takes a particular combination of factors to craft a film thats both careful and freewheeling.
Arts Hub
0.6
Everyone involved with Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is trying so hard to be raunchy, dirty and foulmouthed that they forget to be funny.
Dcw50
3.5
Its not that Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates overcomes its shortcomings, but dives into them headlong with the zeal and shamelessness of a naked todd ..
Vaguev Is Ages
1.5
Mike and Dave is dumb and sloppy, but theres a certain levity and joy among these four leading actors that make it hard for me to dismiss it entirely.
Missoula News
4.0
The movie gives you hilarious jokes and physical comedy that will leave you with a stomach ache from laughing.
Pay or Wait
2.3
This is not to say that Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is completely void of humor, but overall its single dimensional characters and clunky plot le ..
Cinematic Essential
3.1
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