Frankie Go Boom 2012

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Though deliciously rude and crude, '3, 2, 1 ... Frankie Go Boom' possesses a surprisingly sweet heart. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A vibrantly vulgar comedy that never hangs around to admire its own cleverness. Read more

Alison Willmore, AV Club: The image of [Perlman] in makeup and a wig, painting his toenails, is a terribly easy joke, but it's the best one this otherwise abrasive comedy can manage. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Both actors somehow stay grounded despite all the shenanigans. Hunnam, in particular, is quite adept at playing against his movie-star looks. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Though riddled with credibility-straining coincidences and over-the-top humiliation, Jordan Roberts' Frankie Go Boom plays out with more charm than desperation. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: A noisy stab at wacky wrongness that starts with reasonably plump possibility as a dispatch from the frontlines of viral video embarrassment hell. Read more

Joel Arnold, NPR: Tragically unfunny, Frankie is occasionally elevated by some of its gifted and game cast, but the film's nasty, comedically incoherent script limits its potential. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Just like that cumbersome "3, 2, 1 ..." of the title, Roberts adds too many elements to nearly every scene of this insanely frenetic comedy. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A sub-Apatovian farce that tries way too hard ... Read more

David Fear, Time Out: No matter how many jokes about impotence, vomiting pigs, deviant movie stars and underground adult-entertainment you shove into a gross-out flick, there are few things worse than strained outrageousness. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: There's no denying that writer-director Jordan Roberts earns a good number of laughs, and even some extended guffaws, with his crass romance about sex, lies and digital video. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Less inept than its worst-of-the-year title suggests, 3, 2, 1 . . . Frankie Go Boom nonetheless proves too ramshackle and aimless to ever achieve true absurdity. Read more