Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

leplatypus On the paper, the movie is interesting because the story challenges more than the usual American relationship movies. It puts out of the closet the small cheating, lies of married people and their psychological effects. At first, i thought the movie was a remake because it's too serious. To label this movie a comedy would be so a total error! The cast is rather good with a great Wynona. However, the final result is totally disappointing : the movie can't tell the story, it loses itself in useless subplots (their car design job, the hockey game), a lot of scenes drag and bring nothing ! As a recent movie, the blue / orange production is simply awful and Chicago has never been so ugly in a movie ! And the final back-stab would be the strange morale of the movie : Buddy friendship seems more important than relationships and snitching is compulsory !

Jakemcclake If this were marketed as a serious discussion on the boundaries/obligations of friendship and difficulties caused by infidelity, I would say, yeah it pretty much hit the mark, but as a comedy. it left a lot to be desired. Usually, if a comedy is this bad, I mention the music. But I really didn't notice the music. What I noticed was a lot of very angry people and nothing close to funny.One of my college professors once said no conflict/no story. As far as this being a serious drama, this story seems to try to manufacture needless conflict in every relationship it details and fails to make any of this conflict interesting. Jennifer Connelly, Vince Vaughn, Wynona Rider, Channing Tatum, Kevin James, and Ron Howard wasted their talents here, shockingly.

tigerstar154 The DilemmaWhen I heard of this movie, I expected to laugh. Barring a couple of scenes, this movie was pretty dark and sensitive. Then I saw Ron Howards name and I was like, was this the same guy who made the Da Vinci Code and Cinderella Man?Vince Vaughan plays a man who is about to get married, but he sees his best friends wife kissing another dude. Should he tell him or not?The Pluses: The cast and the director, some humor able scenes The Minuses: not a comedy, and too sensitive.Overall the Dilemma was a time passer. i guess we tend overlook these things but I did appreciate the fact that it did not downplay the concept of adultery. 7/10

Robert J. Maxwell My television guide, with which I sometimes agree, gives this two stars out of four, but it's rather better than that. Two and a half stars.It resembles an extended television situation comedy that's intermittently funny and once in a while very funny.Briefly, big beefy Vince Vaughan and short plump Kevin James in Chicago have sold Chrysler the idea of marrying their new part-electric car with the magnificent, throaty roar and the vibration of a muscle car from the 60s. They only have a couple of days to finish the device and demonstrate it to the executives.But there's an intervening problem. Vaughan wants to marry his girl friend, Jennifer Connolly -- probably in thrall to her upper incisors -- and James is already married to Winona Ryder who, happily, was not born in Potawatamie, Kansas. Vaughan, nosing around the botanical gardens while looking for a properly romantic place to propose, catches a glimpse of Ryder smooching a strange and thoroughly tattooed man, Channing Tatum. He tracks them and discovers they're having an affair.Well, James has been his best friend for years. Should he inform? That's the titular "dilemma." There follow many incidents, some filled with action, that have comic overtones. All is revealed at an "intervention" at Vaughan's apartment. An intervention is a kind of spontaneous network therapy presided over by the beneficent Doctor Rosenstone. He's the professorial looking older fellow with the head of curly gray hair so voluminous that it forms its own ecosystem. Here, it turns out that everyone has a secret to reveal. James has been patronizing a massage parlor, for instance. People sob and hug each other. "This is catharsis," remarks the delighted Doctor Rosenstone. It's played for both tension and laughs.But this is a Ron Howard movie. And in a movie directed by Ron Howard, as in movies directed by Rob Reiner and Penny Marshal, it must end on a moment of triumph. Kevin James wins an opportunity in the hockey rink to put a shot into the goal from mid court. I was practically on my knees, praying he wouldn't make it, because he didn't need that all-paid two-week vacation for two in the Bahamas, and because the movie had already achieved its own resolution. There had been triumph aplenty. What James needed to do was miss the goal by a mile and not give a damn. Instead -- well, the writers and director don't want to take any chances with the audience's still pondering the complicated events they've just witnessed. So, let's all cheer wildly as the movie closes on Vaughan and James hugging and rolling around on the ice.