Miss March 2009

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The showpiece gags range from the stale to the grotesque. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: March gets the mean-to-funny ratio wrong; it's misanthropic, smutty, and smug, but with a few notable [Craig] Robinson-engineered exceptions, never even remotely chuckle-inducing. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's aiming for the drunken college crowd but most of the gags have the nervous, giggly idiocy of two middle-school kids flipping through dad's Playboy. Read more

Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: The funniest thing about the monumentally stupid anti-comedy Miss March is that somehow the producers convinced Playboy to sign off on the thing. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Anyone who goes to see Miss March hoping for a voyeuristic, '80-flavored T&A smutfest will be sorely disappointed. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: When the movie was going to come out a month ago, it was called Miss February. Then the release date changed, and so did the title. Now it's Miss March. Miss This would have been more helpful. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: When it comes time to wheel Hefner out for his cameo, even he seems irritated by these guys. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: My blood runs cold at the memory of Miss March, a 90-minute rip-off of the J. Geils Band song Centerfold whose multi-hyphenate creators prove themselves actor-director-writer-failures. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This Playboy fantasy farce is one of those painful comedies in which the strain to be funny shows -- always. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Forget waterboarding -- just show Guantanamo detainees Miss March and they'll say anything. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Miss March is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: A crude, crass, virtually laugh-free sex comedy. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: Overall a raggedy, unfocused affair that wastes both directors' acting talent and feels like too much work between the laughs. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Hugh Hefner shows up to give an addled lecture after Eugene and Tucker make it to the Playboy Mansion, and you think: Wasn't it just last summer that he so sweetly played himself in The House Bunny? Read more