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Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: A comedy that is downright tragic. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Even by the proudly vulgar, dumbed-down standards of the Farrelly Brothers' novelty products, Say It Isn't So is an uninspired dud. Read more
Reece Pendleton, Chicago Reader: A cringe-inducing flop. Read more
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Please say it isn't showing. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Boring, distasteful and predictable with brief flashes of wit that don't occur frequently enough to make the wait between chuckles worthwhile. Read more
CNN.com: These aren't really jokes in the sense that something funny is happening. You're mostly expected to laugh at the idea that there are people who aren't laughing, which is just shallow and incredibly easy. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: A horrifyingly moronic comedy that is boring rather than outrageous. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie keeps coming up with new ways to jolt, pelt, humiliate, and generally torture its characters, yet there's so little pace or invention to the way it's all staged that the synthetic mock cruelties barely register as jokes. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: This review is written in a state of posttraumatic shock. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Say It Isn't So is the kind of movie that makes Dumb & Dumber and Kingpin, a couple of early Farrelly Brothers movies I was not fond of, seem like comedic triumphs. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie doesn't understand that embarrassment comes in a sudden painful flush of realization; drag it out, and it's not embarrassment anymore, but public humiliation, which is a different condition, and not funny. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Not even the beaver jokes are funny in this rangy, uneven Farrelly brothers rip-off. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Stroke jokes, prosthesis jokes, jokes about body hair and smells, and jokes involving the private parts of cows can't keep this one afloat. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: Poor timing and muffed set pieces are compounded by implausibility and inconsequence. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The film elicits not the voluptuous discomfort stirred by the boys' best corporeal shenanigans but creeping embarrassment for everyone on screen. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The jokes about dead animals, gunk in the hair, incest and all other taboos are flatter than the road kill Gilly finds himself picking up for a living. Read more