Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Older and more experienced than his bandmates, guitarist Andy Summers was in the perfect place to observe Sting's dawning ego, but his self-excoriating observations are typical back-of-limo stuff.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
A movie singularly lacking in rock-doc unpredictability and verve.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Of interest to Police fans but hardly a rock-doc for the ages.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is a needlessly dull movie that should have gone back to the drawing board.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Summers' big-screen take on those ongoing group tensions surrounding Sting's reluctance to be considered a career team player constantly strikes a by now all-too-familiar, predominantly sour, chord.

Name : Serena Donadoni / Alias : Village Voice
Can't Stand Losing You conveys . how the Police's genre-defying sound resulted from three distinct styles (and egos) bashing together.

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
A genial, messy comedy of marital discord and mismatched lovers.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The movie squanders its potential with a sloppy script chock full of false notes. Even the bumptious score intrudes, often bumping into important dialogue.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
It gets better and funnier after a labored and lumbering start, which is entirely the opposite of most Hollywood comedies.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
This is witless, saccharine and lifeless.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : MSN Movies
The workmanship and effort are evident in every straining moment, but the end result is so completely phony as to be without value.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" is a sweet romantic comedy about good-hearted people. Imagine that.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's romantic, touching, a little risque and screwball, yet reassuringly down-to-earth.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
I laughed all the way through, thanks to both consistently clever dialogue and deft delivery from Carell and Gosling, who clearly relished a chance to flex his comic muscles.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Hampered by contrivances and the awkward melding of romantic comedy and family drama, the film falters.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
For most of the way, Crazy, Stupid, Love coasts more than agreeably on the talents of four hugely charismatic actors and a tart, knowing script that tweaks the rom-com formula just enough to seem fresh.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
In a genre where outright imbecility generally prevails, a film investigating craziness and stupidity qualifies as a cut above.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
This grand romantic gesture about grand romantic gestures conjures up the bittersweet magic of first loves, lasting loves, lost loves and all the loves in between.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
This is the sort of film that Oscar generally ignores come awards season. It shouldn't. Crazy Stupid Love is a crazy smart film.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is not the ultimate romantic comedy - the one that makes you fall as hard for the characters as they do for one another while savoring their every interaction - but it seems fresher and less recycled than much of the product out there.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" connects its characters in unexpected ways. But line to line, the script lacks wit and sophistication.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Sorry, dudes. It seems we can't do anything right, but we're still funny. Sometimes.

Name : Karina Longworth / Alias : Village Voice
Carell and Gosling, each willing to take his character to the point of caricature in order to find the truth in him, have a nicely barbed chemistry together.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Crazy, Stupid, Love is the perfect combination of sexy, cute, wise, hilarious, and true.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Requa and Ficarra encourage grand statements and enormous reactions. They want pyrotechnic feeling, and their shamelessness works. It has no pretensions of depth, just more feeling.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
It never gets crazy or stupid enough to make you truly fall in love with it.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Fills its scenes with bright surprises while making an appealing new case for the old-fashioned notion of soul mates.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
It's a tonic for those beaten down by years of bad rom-coms. Love conquers all - and so, I suspect, will this movie. Just try to resist it.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : Time Out New York
The directors show a great talent for jagged-edged farce.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Carell is his dependable wounded-puppy self, always likable, but Gosling and Stone are fantastic.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
None of this is much fun to watch. The pace drags. The acting is without contrast or color.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Pity the crowds expecting another cute comedy like "Date Night" who wind up at "Crazy, Stupid, Love." It'll be like asking for a burger and getting served escargot.

Name : Mary F. Pols / Alias : TIME Magazine
The movie's biggest surprise is the revelation of Gosling as cunning comedian.

Name : Carrie Rickey / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A Midsummer Night's PG-13 sex comedy.

Name : Sam Adams / Alias : Los Angeles Times
There's strong, fleetingly powerful stuff in Crazy, Stupid, Love., but like its awkwardly punctuated title, the movie jerks to a halt just when it's beginning to flow.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" is, on balance, remarkably sane and reasonably smart.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Carell carries the comedy, while remaining grounded in the pain of the character, and so we care. It's also astonishing what good clothes and a haircut can do for a guy. There's a lesson in that for all of us.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The movie has an unexpectedly high proportion of delights to groaners, and it's full of actors you'll want to see.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Adult dramas and comedies should at least have a toe in their audience's lives.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's a pleasure to come across the sharply funny and touching Crazy Stupid Love. It's a live one with a dream cast that keeps springing playful surprises.

Name : Kirk Honeycutt / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie suffers perhaps from too many characters and subplots but all the actors appear to have fun with their characters.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Every moment of mature insight in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" is answered by a scene of formulaic farce.

Name : Eric D. Snider / Alias : Film.com
A multi-threaded and well-organized comedy full of pleasant surprises and appealing characters.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
[A] pleasant surprise.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The episodic plot encompasses a series of familiar gags about casual sex and finding your soul mate, few of them delivered with much enthusiasm.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Old-fashioned as that might sound, there's a fresh, insightful feel to this multigenerational love story.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Crazy Stupid Love veers schizophrenically between daring, jaw-dropping comedy and gooey sitcom cliches that weigh it down.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
During a summer when most of the other romantic comedies haven't been either, "Crazy, Stupid, Love" provides a fairly smart and sensible date-night choice.