Graphic-yet-boring rom-com.
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10/22/07
What Love Is (2007)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:2
Rotten:11
Average Rating:3.1/10
Synopsis: "What Love Is" is a sincere, insightful, and unapologetically frank romantic comedy for men about a man who finds out, during the course of one very important night in his life, what love truly is.... [More]
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Sean Astin, Matthew Lillard, Mars Callahan
Director: Mars Callahan
Reviews for What Love Is
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Shrill, abrasive, cartoonishly over-the-top and badly titled.
04/02/07
Top CriticIn its own peculiar way, What Love Is is a testament to the redemptive power of words. Thankfully, Callahan knows to keep it short and sweet, lest his audience go mad from the noise.
03/23/07
It could be that What Love Is is what lovers of either gender can like, thanks to equal parts misogynistic machismo and locker-room girl talk, all of it tied together with just a little bit of cozy romantic reality.
03/23/07
Gooding is solid in the leading-man role. He has some of the best lines, and he's pretty much the only character you could stand to hang out with in real life.
03/23/07
Now and then there is something strangely right about films this defiantly wrongheaded, but What Love Is never rises above the leaden, overbearing qualities of Callahan's dialogue and staging.
03/23/07
Top CriticWhat Love Is overflows with mind-numbing patter, bizarrely delivered with the arch formality of David Mamet, with the net effect of being yelled at for no reason.
03/23/07
Top CriticRomantic comedies should never be this exhausting.
03/23/07
Someone tell writer-director Mars Callahan what a movie is.
03/23/07
Shot on HD over the course of a week, calling-card pic looks and sounds like an Off Off Broadway play.
03/23/07
Top CriticA shrill cacophony of puerile clichés about men and women and sex, delivered in adrenaline-driven harangues and arrogant lectures. When the stage clears, all that's left is the unpleasant odor of all that hot air.
03/22/07
The level of insight in this romantic comedy’s dialogue makes the oeuvre of Ed Burns look like Racine.
03/22/07
Too wordy frozen stage play with Matt Lillard a spitting, screaming, out-of-control embarrassment.
03/18/07
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