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| What's meant (I think) to be a "f*** you" to action-movie conventions reads instead as a "f*** you" to the audience. Observe and Report tickets should come with a free breath mint, because however hard you've been laughing, that ending leaves a seriously bad taste in your mouth. |
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| (Dana Stevens, Slate) |
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| Midway through, a character remarks as he leaves the scene of a takedown of Ronnie, "I thought this was going to be funny, but it's just kind of sad." The same thing is true about the movie as a whole. |
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| (Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle) |
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| I've observed this Seth Rogen comedy, and I can report that it's not very good. |
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| (J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader) |
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| This film isn't the most awful comedy of the year (that would be Bride Wars or New in Town), but it may have the grossest antihero. |
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| (Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun) |
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| If you thought Abu Ghraib was a laugh riot then you might love Observe and Report, a potentially brilliant conceptual comedy that fizzles because its writer and director, Jody Hill, doesn't have the guts to go with his spleen. |
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| (Manohla Dargis, New York Times) |
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| It heaps piles of bad, crazy stuff at our feet then walks away. There is no moral to this story, and there's not much comedy either. |
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| (Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times) |
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| Charmless, heavy-handedand cynical... I’m all for bad taste and black comedy and grossout. But it has to be funny. |
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| (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian) |
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| A thing of horror... There are no two ways about the already notorious date-rape scene - not the stuff of comedy, but the kind of criminally misjudged non-PC provocation that leaves you feeling vaguely nauseous. If such a thing is believable, it’s the wildly undistinguished US hit Paul Blart: Mall Cop with fewer laughs, but the problem goes further, because director Jody Hill thinks he’s trying to push the envelope but doesn’t know in which direction, or why. |
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| (Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph). |
