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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh Page   1   "'O & R' focuses on characters instead of plot, which may bother some viewers. However, the movie worked for me because of its excellent performances."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B "Here's the simplest way to put it: if you liked the over-the-top, brutal finale of Pineapple Express, you'll most likely find yourself enjoying Observe and Report..."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "Observe and Report is...not afraid to take chances, to push envelopes, and explore elements that usually don't make it into a satire or spoof."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 2.5/5 "a pubescent fantasy where the characters act like they're inside a cartoon and there are simply no consequences for their actions"   Filmcritic.com   Blake French "Ronnie’s corruption is not an easy journey to absorb, but Observe and Report is committed to the hellish descent all the way."   Dark Horizons   Brian Orndorf B+ "An acidic, anarchic layer cake of mental illness with comedy teddy bear Seth Rogen as its seal of approval. It'll be fascinating to see how this demented, treehouse feature is received by audiences accustomed to far bouncier takes on smutty giggles."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf A+ ""Observe and Report" is a laugh-'till-it-hurts comedy that sticks with you for all of the troubling questions it raises about our society."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3.5/5 "Writer-director Jody Hill attempts a difficult balancing act, so he can be forgiven for occasionally stumbling between laughter and squirms."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 4/5 "Hill pushes his characters right to the edge of horribleness while keeping them brutally funny."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius B- "It's not a good film, but it's a funny one."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "By taking chances and freeing itself of a safety net, the picture arrives as a welcome respite to the same-old, same-old."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B+ "A fascinatingly bizarre dark comedy, an abrasive and occasionally mean-spirited tale that succeeds by being completely committed to its ideas."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "One of the ballsier comedies to come from a big studio in some time that's likely going to tear at audience's expectations but, hopefully, will have them appreciating its creators."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "Observe and reject"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 2.5/4 "Hill's lopsided laugher is bizarrely charming and frothy in its impishness of impropriety...Roguishly appalling but unapologetic in its mindlessness..."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "It's Paul Blart with a nasty streak, a perverse kind of farce that most people will be more likely to recoil from than to laugh at."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A spiritual exercise for the heart that offers us a chance to look for the good in a socially awkward, bigoted, violent, and loathsome individual."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "It falls short of brilliant but it's a lot more daring than what passes for 'dark comedy' these days, and it reminds us that 'feel bad' comedies may not always be as funny as 'feel good' ones but, when they work, they can ultimately be more satisfying."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "a strange, slightly disconcerting, and at times aggressively insistent wince-inducing comedy"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 4/10 "...gets increasingly bleak and ludicrous as it goes along, until it ends on a sentimental yet still rude and vulgar note. The movie is relentless."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2.5/4.0 "Imagine a Kevin Smith film directed by Quentin Tarantino. Yeah."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1/5 "If Paul Blart was a chubby but loveable friend of the family, then Observe and Report is its mentally unbalanced, just-out-of-prison, suicidal older brother."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3/4 "This pitch black comedy has more in common with Taxi Driver or Oldboy than with a Judd Apatow flick."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C "Like "Foot Fist," "Observe and Report" is about grating, dysfunctional males and the sluts they love and inappropriate behavior alone does not equal comedy."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[A] startling portrait of knee-jerk ignorance, obliviousness, and mean-spiritedness... Rogen's wholehearted devotion to the character imbues him with a solid reality, if a miserable one..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "If you laugh at all - which I admittedly did - it is sometimes laughing at the political/social incorrectness of [the main character], and sometimes laughing at the sheer audacity of the film."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "I have no affection for this movie but I have to admit to a grudging admiration for its willingness to be awkward, intrusive, and disturbing."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 3/4 "Jody Hill takes Ben Stiller's comedy-of-awkwardness to painfully uncomfortable, extreme realms, offering up unrepentantly disagreeable characters who confront their deep insecurities through psychotic displays of machismo."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "It is so good and funny that as far as I am concerned, Jody Hill has officially been forgiven for "The Foot Fist Way.""   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 1.5/5 "Seth Rogen's reliable charm finally meets its match in this strained, unfunny script"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "Brutally, demonically funny."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "A comedy so dark you have to turn the house lights on to see the screen."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 4.5/5 "Hill and Rogen made precisely the strange little comedy that they wanted to. Trust me when I say that this is NOT your typical studio farce, and that's a wonderful freakin' thing."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 5/10 "Edgy and exploitive, this vigilante story earns its R-rating for pushing the acceptable boundaries of crude, dark comedy - but it's not for mainstream audiences."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 7/10 "Ronnie may very well be the most appalling and wicked comedy protagonist ever... [the film] does not particularly care about being liked, and it's surely not to all tastes."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh Page   1