Friends With Kids (2012)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 136
Fresh: 91 | Rotten: 45
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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 17
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Friends with Kids is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there's a better way. They decide to have a kid together - and date other people. There are big laughs and unexpected emotional truths as this unconventional 'experiment' leads everyone in the group to question the
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Cast
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Adam Scott
Jason Fryman -
Jennifer Westfeldt
Julie Keller -
Jon Hamm
Ben -
Kristen Wiig
Missy -
Maya Rudolph
Leslie -
Chris O'Dowd
Alex -
Megan Fox
Mary Jane -
Edward Burns
Kurt -
Lee Bryant
Elaine Keller -
Kelly Bishop
Marcy Fryman -
Cotter Smith
Phil Fryman
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All Critics (138) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (94) | Rotten (46) | DVD (7)
It's safe to assume its sharp comments on what kids can do to marriage - and friendships - come from years of observation.
Top CriticPleasant but overfamiliar.
Sitcom-amusing, in that middle-of-the-road way.
It's the kind of cutesy idea that doesn't ring remotely true.
This is a sharp, funny, touching and utterly winning slice of New York.
[A] crass, shallow cash-in.
Trying to figure what is the most offensive thing about this accidental mashup of 70s Woody Allen and Sex and the City...
Friends With Kids is an excellent, insightful romantic comedy, the genre at its very best, and Lionsgate has put together a stellar Blu-Ray release. Highly recommended.
Movies of this genre normally want you to root for the couple to end up together. All this one had me doing was hoping that someone would smack them upside the head and talk some sense into them.
Ultimately, Friends With Kids is an unconventional family drama that uses conventional romantic comedy clichés to make its point.
I'd rather have my head stuck in a vise than be forced to sit through another viewing.
There's a lot of talent and promise on display in Jennifer Westfeldt's Friends with Kids, but a dispiriting obligation to formula ultimately rears its ugly head.
God, girl, just act. Being an Orson Wells is a looooong way off.
Friends with Kids is funny and likable and while the dialogue is often bawdy and sexually frank, its elements are completely fairytale, including a climax involving a cross-town dash.
Adam Scott takes the leading male role as Jason Fryman. Were such a thing possible, he looks like he could be the son of Tom Cruise and Michael Sheen, minus their celebrity baggage.
Westfeldt's screenplay is often sharp, shrewd and funny...
Sure this is going to draw some comparisons to Bridesmaids - and understandably so - but still there are some great performances and touching moments.
Friends With Kids is a smart, witty and potty-mouthed confection that uses an intriguing premise as a hook for a familiar tale of soulmates who are blinkered to the deep love that binds them.
Friends With Kids is a smart, witty and potty-mouthed confection that uses an intriguing premise as a hook for a familiar tale of soulmates who are blinkered to the deep love that binds them.
If the leads ultimately conform to rom-com type, there's enough messiness, heartbreak and hurt around them to stop the movie becoming cosily bland.
It's conventional, dull and unconsciously nasty.
If you see this on at the cinema, walk on by.
It's left to the wonderful Scott, with his satyr's face and killer timing, to carry the movie through thick and thin.
Sadly the film then downhill-races to a feelgood, feel-inauthentic ending. But for 90 of 107 minutes it is cracklingly good.
It's difficult to muster the will to get behind these fools, and yet there are stretches where Westfeldt's script glows, such as an expertly executed dinner-table fracas, which manages to engage the entire ensemble.
Audience Reviews for Friends With Kids
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- Ben: So why didn't you guys ever even try to get together?
- Jason Fryman: It's too much familiarity. It's like she's one of my.
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- Jason Fryman: She over-French pronounces French words.
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- Mary Jane: F**k the s**t out of me!
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- Julie Keller: It feels like it's coming out of my ass!
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- Leslie: He's like an annoying dog... of a brother.
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- Jason Fryman: It's like... she's one of my limbs.
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