You, Me and Dupree 2006

Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: The end product feels less funny than formulaic. Not to mention profoundly disheartening. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Working with a shapeless script, directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Welcome to Collinwood) can't figure out what they're making. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: You, Me And Dupree drains Owen Wilson's tank of charm down to the fumes. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Yet another comedy about a man-child who won't grow up, You, Me and Dupree has the faintly stale smell of food left overnight on the counter. Read more

Hap Erstein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome but a compilation reel of Wilson's scenes would make for fairly funny viewing. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: What makes Owen Wilson a special exception is that his characters always work to make the world more child-like and whimsical, and the films brighten up as a result. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Although the movie offers a few chuckles here and there, it fails on almost every level. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Wilson is the most intolerable of all. Watching him slack his way through this movie made me feel like Lou Dobbs. I didn't like Dupree. I wanted him deported. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The tone of You, Me and Dupree is smarmy in that institutional way that doesn't seem to know what the tongue is doing in the cheek, exactly, but keeps it there just in case. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: You, Me & Dupree is best when Wilson is on-screen, mucking around with exquisite deadbeat timing, baring his all -- or his almost -- as the situation demands. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: I don't mean to imply that this film is any good or that it contains an ounce of genuine insight. But as a template for the big-baby genre, it's invaluable. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: When he's firing on all cylinders, Wilson plays the trickster catalyst, the knowing knave with charming lassitude. Now if only his accidental sage can find a fable worth his goofball wisdom. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: You, Me and Dupree is lazy, obvious, never emotionally real and, most unfortunately, sporadically funny at best. It's a movie you've seen before and you've seen done better. Owen, it's time to grow up. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The joke, of course, is that it's really Owen Wilson who's in control. He can't play the dazed rogue forever, but for now he's the happy master of that domain. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If you've seen the trailer, you've seen only half the movie -- and all the jokes. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: You, Me and Dupree features three first-rate actors in need of a first-rate movie. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Dupree feels like the most opportunistic of Hollywood 'packages' -- a trio of appealing stars with proven track records in this sort of fare paired with a script that's been cobbled together out of odds and ends of other, better movies. Read more

John Hartl, Newsweek: Gifted though [the directors] may be in smaller doses, they're a long way from mastering the art of feature-length comedy. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Something, anything needs to be done soon to keep Wilson's stoner-savant persona from becoming as generic a product as dairy-case cookie dough. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Watching [Wilson] mug wildly in another uneven film short on plot, the audience may start to wish he would go away for awhile and stop turning up in such repetitive comedies. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Wilson, Dillon and Hudson are likable stars, and there are moments when their characters make a convincing circle of friends. But the Russo brothers don't have the maturity to blend the two prongs of the story they've written. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This is the worst movie Wilson has made since he graduated from being Jackie Chan's punch line. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Were it not for the A-list cast, You, Me and Dupree is an effort one might expect to move directly to video store shelves, bypassing multiplexes altogether. Read more

Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: You, Me and Dupree has the feel of a film that could have gone in any number of directions, and perhaps at one time went in all of them. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: You, Me and Dupree seems to have been made by people who don't know the difference between a light comedy and an inconsequential one. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Wilson deserves better, too. He's too smart to make me believe he'd actually think this movie is funny. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: You, Me and Dupree could just as easily be plotted on a flow-chart in the theater lobby, saving its audience a 10-spot and 108 minutes they'll never get back. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Director brothers Anthony and Joe Russo manage to keep the pace moving for the first two-thirds, steering clear of overt touchy-feeliness or extreme gross-outs. Then they suddenly lose their grip, and Wilson's good 20 minutes is up. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Owen Wilson is perilously close to doing a Dupree on his own career, by wearing out his welcome. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: A bit dull, since Dillon's constrained playing the straight guy, Hudson has little to work with, and Douglas looks bored. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: This is cringe-inducing humor at its most wooden. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A middling third-wheel comedy elevated a couple of notches by the ineffably weird charms of Owen Wilson. Read more

Scott Foundas, Village Voice: The movie goes from being another mildly depressing lump of unrealized comic potential to being an actively unpleasant experience. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Artistically, You, Me and Dupree is a mess. Technically, it's an abomination. Spiritually, it's a void. Commercially, it'll probably be a big hit. Read more