Metacritic reviews

An easygoing and amusing romantic confection.

The script is an odd take on the Cinderella formula, but Barrymore makes it shine with her relentless charm.

Drew Barrymore has figured out what works, and what works for Drew Barrymore is this: Cinderella stories.

There are some indignities that Drew Barrymore should never be made to suffer.

Unfortunately, the script is a light romantic comedy and unwilling to go the extra distance to really make it stick.

So hopelessly cartoonish and wrongheaded in its details that there's not even a semblance of reality.

Never Been Kissed features a fierce tug of war between the charm of Drew Barrymore and the stupidity of the script.

Shining above it all, like a kewpie-doll saint, is Drew Barrymore -- whose sweet innocence and sexy romanticism have survived movies as bad as this before

Not even Drew Barrymore's million-dollar smile can save this humiliating comedy.

Labored miscalculation of a teen-trend comedy.