25
Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanSomehow, though, director Huck Botko and writer Jeff Tetreault have turned their dopey tribute to testosterone into a surprisingly amusing rom-com.
- 50Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyBad Johnson is probably the most thoughtful movie possible about a penis that takes human form.
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerA sometimes amusing sex farce.
- 30The DissolveAdam NaymanThe DissolveAdam NaymanInstead of trying for something truly outrageous or surreal—qualities that should flow naturally from the script’s insane premise—writer Jeff Tetreault and director Huck Botko opt for rom-com blandness from beginning to end, leaning hard on generic conventions even as they pretend to satirize them.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film will leave viewers feeling emasculated in more ways than one.
- 30VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerThe film manages to be an often uncomfortable experience without fully embracing its own bad taste, starting with an inherently insane premise and somehow steering it through the most basic of romantic comedy paces.
- 20Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe whole sorry enterprise leaves you feeling, well, shafted.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzEntertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzThe jokes are flaccid, the acting is stiff, and the whole idea is such a boner, you have to wonder if the writer was missing another critical organ when he came up with it.
- 12Slant MagazineAlan JonesSlant MagazineAlan JonesHuck Botko's film asks us to laugh at, even revel in, the misadventures of womanizing men, even as it condemns them for their behavior.
- 12New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithA buddy comedy that reeks like stale underpants.