Hit and Run 2012

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: Hit & Run as a whole is one of the summer's most enjoyable surprises, a consistently disarming romantic comedy... Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A comedy that feels as if it were dreamed up in the wee hours between bong hits and shots of tequila. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Earplugs, please. And wake me when it's over. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: There really ought to be a lot more movies like Hit & Run, but only if they're just a little bit better. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: A somewhat offbeat romance shifts gears and becomes something more menacing and violent. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: When Shepard's on, though, he's really on. There's hardly anything rote or predictable about "Hit & Run," other than its title. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: The good time clearly had by the filmmakers rubs off on the audience. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: This is neither funny nor suspenseful, but it does feature some cool-looking cars, and Tom Arnold delivers some decent pratfalls as an accident-prone man. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "Hit & Run" is merely the latest picture, more modestly scaled than most, to give the catch-all notion of the B movie a bad name, deserving of a new category: the D movie. Read more

Ricardo Baca, Denver Post: The rom-com/car chase back-and-forth doesn't always work, but a fun story and affable cast keep things moving fluidly. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: "Hit and Run" is a race to ridiculousness, but at the same time it's a bit of a gas. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Tasty at times, even if the film evaporates as you watch it. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: It's eminently clear that the goal here is fun, and fun is achieved on the regular. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: On-the-run love story delivers charm despite some unwise detours. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: A strange, but strangely entertaining combo of drag racing machismo, slapstick silliness, raunchy riffs, politically incorrect rants and sweet nothings. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Hit and Run isn't very memorable, and it isn't all that exciting, but it's occasionally funny and sweet and more engaging than any action-comedy Jennifer Aniston has made in her entire career. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: They're all clearly having fun, though that's not the same as making a movie. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, NPR: Hit and Run lures you in with its jackalope rhythms. There's nothing else like it on the current landscape. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Shepard and Palmer just don't do anything terribly exciting with the film's vehicles, drawn mostly from Shepard's personal collection. Read more

David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: The problem is that Hit & Run can't really settle on a tone. It's a goofy caper that turns savage. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's like Mozart being interpreted by someone who's tone-deaf. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: The worst. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a lot more fun than the title suggests. How many chase comedies have you seen where the hero's sexy girlfriend has a doctorate in nonviolent conflict resolution? Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The trouble with Hit & Run is that it can't sustain its trippy effervescence. Despite a few scrappy twists and turns, it's ultimately a dead end. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Pretty much everything shot by Shepard and co-director David Palmer looks as if it was done in one take. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This one checks all the boxes for summer escapism: hot cars, hotter women, highway hooliganism, a hell-raising hero, hapless cops, hilarious villains, no plot and no apologies. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Hit and Run" isn't a catastrophe, but it leaves loose ends and a more adventurous map by the side of the winding road. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Hit & Run is awfully hit & miss. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Like the classic 1967 Cadillac that transports our protagonists for much of the journey, Hit & Run is a road-worthy romance-comedy. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: With so many lazy and phoned-in movies out there, it's uniquely frustrating to see Shepard come so close to his lofty goals and still fall short. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Interminable scenes of macho posturing and mock-Tarantino dialogue ... Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Like the muscle cars it lovingly features, Hit and Run idles effectively, revs and takes off with frisky energy, and knows just when to cruise. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Above all, real-life couple Shepard and Bell bring genuine chemistry to this high-energy excursion. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Essentially a celebrity goof-off ... Hit & Run goes slack from the lack of any real back-and-forth. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: It feels like writer, co-director and star Dax Shepard has unleashed some kind of freakish Franken-film on movie-goers. Read more