What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.
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Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
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Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The humor here is overcooked to the point of limpness.
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Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The surprise behind Town and Country isn't that the director started filming without a finished script, but that he ever thought he had the start of one.
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Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say.
The script's tone veers chaotically -- and ambitiously -- at once aiming for a Noel Coward kind of elegant sparring, then for the lightly raunchy, rompy absurdism of "What's New, Pussycat?"
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Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that's already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie's ineptitude is almost incomparable.