Nice, clean fun.

Roger Ebert: "Larry Crowne is a nice man who becomes nicer with the encouragement of other nice people."

Larry Crowne isn't offensively bad, but it IS incredibly bland and boring. The movie's only intention is going through the motions, checking every cliché on the list along the way, while ignoring the rotten core: Hanks and Roberts have no romantic chemistry whatsoever. The only laugh you'll get from it is the thought of the movie's writers coming up with the scooter gang idea as it if was a genius way of capturing the social zeitgeist; in truth it's as idiotic as the rest of the movie.

This movie should have been called 'LET'S GET TOPICAL, Y'ALL!"

This film is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin.

Amiable enough learning-to-live-life-after-a-disaster comedy, although the idea of Hanks earning $20m to make us feel a bit better about losing our jobs in the recession sticks in my throat somewhat.

Little too schmaltzy for my taste, however, I've been raised to believe in Tom Hanks no matter what.

i can't help but root for the title character, partially because of him losing his job, and partially because it's tom hanks, but to be honest, he worked a shopping mall, so it's really not surprising that he took the layoff on the chin. it's one of those movies that easily facilitates a warm smile, but will be largely forgotten by the entire population in a year, actually it already has.

39.500

Well, this movie is feelgood all the way, making light of the economic woes of its hero and his nation and choosing to see the world through rose-tinted spectacles. It's zeitgeisty à la Up In The Air or Everything Must Go, but bypasses all the heavy drama in favour of making mid-life crises seem cool. While you can kick it for this arrogance, its also a very charming movie, with quirky characters, light humourous touches, and a consistent pace and tone. A lot to like; another good job, Tom.

Tom Hank's is ok in this one but they could have and should have used a cardboard standee for the Julia Robert's teacher character. But then I've never like Julia.

Freshly divorced, fired and soon to be foreclosed Larry Crown is a story of psychopathic optimism. Rather than dealing with the crushing realities of our modern day depression (like lets say, Everything Must Go) here an overpriced community college teaches Crown how to dress cool, ride a Vespa and fart rainbows that rain gold on everyone in a land where the sun always shines and everyone gets laid. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what Hollywood thinks it's like to be unemployed.

Not up to Julia Robert's standards but not to far off what I'd expect from Tom Hanks. (yes I did love you've got mail and Charlie Wilson's War, but those were high points not norms for his career)

steaming pile of lance

Needs more of Wilmer Valderrama, George Takei and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Needs less of Julia Roberts and Cedric the Entertainer. Has, as is always the case, just enough Tom Hanks. I feel like Julia Roberts might have stepped on the wrong set and thought she was in Bad Teacher or something. Larry Crowne is a bit thin, both as a film and as a character, but it is entertaining enough to warrant the time spent and occasionally genuinely charming. Almost exclusively when Roberts is off-screen.

What can I say, it won me over by the end... As INDYATMN says in their mini-review: "watching the likable Hanks & Roberts make an unlikely romance plausible", was good enough for me...

Quite enjoyable feel-good film.

I saw Larry Crowne because I love and miss Tom Hanks, but I expected a bad movie and I got one. What's so bad about it? It has all the characteristics of a soda cracker: it's boring and plain with a few salty bits of humor. This metaphor is getting away from me here, so let me sum up Larry Crowne like so: bleeeeeeeggghhhhhh.

Barring its ringing endorsement of a liberal college education, Republicans should love this. 4 Crowne life only gets better after being fired. He also loses his home& must return 2 a job he hates, but that's not disaster- it's opportunity. W/ a strong work ethic & the help of a certified Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hanks can score a hot college professor. Populated w/ only-in-the-movies caricatures, the only thing that works is watching the likable Hanks & Roberts make an unlikely romance plausible.

It's a solid dramedy that survives Julia Roberts due to the inevitable "I-want-to-get-behind-Tom-Hanks" feeling. But, despite a divorce and getting fired, having no income to speak of for weeks on end (yet somehow affording to go back to school?), there's never this feeling of dread surrounding Larry; you never really feel like he's in trouble. The one scene of him being sad and the scene in the bank don't quite cut it. I guess I was hoping to see some dread. But it's a good movie nonetheless.

The casting is perfect. The casting of Takei as an Economics teacher is like Bergman and Bogie in Casablanca... you could have the movie without it but it'd lose its charm. Not that this movie is Casablanca, I just like the comparison. -pats self- Anyway, Steve was really funny and while it did go a lil bit without laughs here and there, there were some huge laughs. Not bland, the setting may be (guy works at Umart and then takes economics n'shit... that's the point), but the movie is not.

i watched this with the expectation of it being a comedy, but disappointed with the outcome. the characters were shallow, and the chemistry between larry and tainot could have been developed further. characters are one-dimensional at best, and even a 10 year old could predict the plot.

You know a movie is forgettable and has no chemistry when it takes two days to remember that you even sat through it. Roberts is really unlikeable, Hanks doesn't seem to be even halfway bothered about being downsized, and any humor that doesn't come from Takei just falls flat.

very good 10 out of 10

Nothing special, but the two stars make it work. Roberts is more acerbic and less cute than usual, and I like her better that way.

Everything here seems too easy and good to appeal for more than 30, 40 minutes, and, I might not be sure, but I felt like Julia was kind of bored, and Tom repeating the nice guy all over again -- Crowne is a crossover between Forrest Gump and that loser from The Terminal. It's like a lazy Frank Capra shooting a bad film with the financial crisis background. It's naive and I get the feeling that Larry Crowne himself likes to be seen that way. Ok.

"Wilmer Valderrama and George Takei's reaction shots are the only feeble sources of humor in this dramedy." - Nick Schager

The humanist opposite to Hollywood's self-congratulatory snark.