The result is funny and plausible, with a fair bit of newly modish Bridesmaidsy bad taste, though I kept getting the sense that the romcom template meant Mazer couldn't really let rip with pure comedy pessimism and cynicism in the way he might have liked.
In the end it amounts to not much, but in the moment I laughed a lot.
60
EmpireOlly Richards
EmpireOlly Richards
The jokes are strong and delivered by a very talented cast, but the heart isn’t there. It’s easy to laugh, but hard to care.
60
Total Film
Total Film
In a film with obvious ambition, though, it’s a shame that it resorts to formula so quickly.
50
The DissolveNoel Murray
The DissolveNoel Murray
The default middle ground between true-to-life and wacky in I Give It A Year turns out to be a place of dreary artificiality.
50
Slant MagazineAndrew Schenker
Slant MagazineAndrew Schenker
Much of the film's attempted laughs come from the comedy-of-discomfort school, with an endless array of situations that milk awkwardness to a degree that makes these scenes far more unpleasant than humorous to watch.
25
The PlaylistDrew Taylor
The PlaylistDrew Taylor
I Give It a Year groans on, with unmemorable scene after unmemorable scene, each one more contingent on coincidence and happenstance than by the actual, gear-filled mechanics of drama or comedy.