Wanderlust

J. R. Jones / Chicago Reader
Feb 26, 2012
Being taken under Apatow's wing may have been a big career break for writer-director David Wain, but this lacks the sharp personality of some of his earlier movies.

Dana Stevens / Slate
Feb 26, 2012
[The] shaggy but agreeable Wanderlust [is] worth the detour.

David Edelstein / NPR
Feb 24, 2012
It takes guts to do a comedy this big without gross-out slapstick, and the writers and the actors are all in.

Stephen Whitty / Newark Star-Ledger
Feb 24, 2012
The leads are charming and although the plot twists are obvious, there are some funny scenes here.

Mary F. Pols / TIME Magazine
Feb 24, 2012
A comedy that looks way better than it actually is set amidst the dreck of late winter releases...

Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
Feb 24, 2012
Paul Rudd is the best friend a movie comedy can have.

Tom Long / Detroit News
Feb 24, 2012
Much of the movie feels pasted together; the story doesn't flow, it staggers forward.

Rick Groen / Globe and Mail
Feb 24, 2012
As far as your humble correspondent knows, Wanderlust is the first mainstream movie ever to star a Floppy Prosthetic Penis.

Lou Lumenick / New York Post
Feb 24, 2012
"Wanderlust'' may lack the satiric edge of Albert Brooks' "Lost in America,'' but it does deliver more big laughs than most comedies these days.

Ann Hornaday / Washington Post
Feb 23, 2012
A shambling mix of cheap laughs and genuinely funny set pieces from writer-director David Wain.

Richard Roeper / Richard Roeper.com
Feb 23, 2012
'Wanderlust' is equal parts fresh humor and stale jokes.

Claudia Puig / USA Today
Feb 23, 2012
Though Wanderlust has a silly-funny premise and moments of inspired lunacy, it wanders aimlessly and runs some weak gags into the ground.

Mick LaSalle / San Francisco Chronicle
Feb 23, 2012
"Wanderlust" is an assembly line producing laughs.

Manohla Dargis / New York Times
Feb 23, 2012
For every few jokes that hit in this story about a recession-battered New York couple finding themselves on a Georgia commune, one sputters and dies.

Joe Morgenstern / Wall Street Journal
Feb 23, 2012
So you think you've seen silly? And smarmy? And inept? Wait till you see "Wanderlust," though that's just a figure of speech; I'm not suggesting that you actually lay eyes on this naked grab for box office bucks.

Kara Nesvig / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Feb 23, 2012
[It] produces tons of laughs in its compact 90 minutes and doesn't overstay its welcome. The bad jokes are bad, but the good ones are great.

Betsy Sharkey / Los Angeles Times
Feb 23, 2012
Wain has always brought a kind of zany sensibility to his films, but he has never seemed more confident coloring outside the lines.

Linda Barnard / Toronto Star
Feb 23, 2012
Buried below the endless penis and poop jokes, a very funny movie lurks, one we only catch glimpses of amid a churning mire of icky stuff and dangling privates.

Wesley Morris / Boston Globe
Feb 23, 2012
This movie has no teeth. It does not want to say anything, other than the unprintable word for penis, over and over.

Ian Buckwalter / NPR
Feb 23, 2012
Wain's willingness to do anything for a laugh is a risk that pays off.

Wanderlust Cast:

• Alan Alda
• Jennifer Aniston
• Justin Theroux
• Ken Marino
• Ray Liotta