Admission

Was hoping for a comedy, this was not really that. Sure there's a few funny moments and it's not particularly serious, but that just puts it in a no mans land of bland attempt at a lighthearted feelgood story. Not really bad, but completely forgettable.

Another overlong, unfunny shallow-depth-of-field attempt from Focus Features. I don't think I laughed once, and the writing doesn't work as a serious film either. Hard to believe the lead actors made their names as comedians.

Pleasant, in a boring I never want to see it again way.

Hey, let's take two of the funniest people on the planet and make a tepid drama!

Average comedy. Not a ton of laughs though. I do however really enjoy Fey and Rudd.

...is that child a Gary Oldman in Tiptoes version of Don Cheadle?

Admission stars whom I can only assume to be impostors of Tina Fey and Paul Rudd - usually two of the most likable and handsome stars in Hollywood, the script reduces it's avatars to empty shell like ghosts who appear dead behind the eyes, perhaps drained of their humanity by a comedy in which the biggest joke is the delivery of a calf in an elongated, stone cold serious sequence. Imagine Vera Drake with pratfalls.

i think it was worth watching once, maybe, in the right circumstances, if you're in the mood for it. don't ever watch it twice.

For a comedy starring Fey, Rudd and Tomlin, it was lacking big time in the jokes department. The movie couldn't decide what it wanted to be, as part of it was an 80's, us against them, let's hatch a plan to win the day feel good type movie, while the rest of it was a movie of the week about parenthood that kept hitting you over the head with a melodramatic hammer.

Tina Fey sabotages the future of everyone. NEPOTISM: The Movie. One of the darkest movies of the year. Paul Rudd starts a school of "Manly Things"

I'll watch Tina Fey and Paul Rudd do anything together. So, while Admission isn't either the funniest nor the most memorable movie ever, it's still Tina Fey and Paul Rudd doing something together. Oh, and the whole bullshit college system sub-theme? Right on!

Essentially a lame film, with a mostly serviceable cast, although made somewhat more interesting in light of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.

This was not a good story. Paul Rudd and Tina Fey are likeable people but the plot, the motivations, the conflicts of interest were all terrible. The admissions process was a lot more arbitrary than I thought, though with recent 2019 scandals I'm not too surprised. I would have denied the kid and recommended community college to demonstrate a work ethic first. Fav scene: Tina Fey getting caught cheating.

A strangely cast dramedy that should have done better by its two stars.

Mildly entertaining.

Through it all, Fey is a wonderfully transparent actress, the kind of comic actress who's at her funniest in the tiny moments right after the audience's laughter at some plot-contrivance or witticism. In this way, it's great that the film makes Tomlin her mother, because there's something of a comic lineage there that really makes you think. And then it makes you sad because this movie doesn't give either one of them the finish they really deserve, 'though it really, really, really tries.

Okay movie, okay humor, okay acting, okay development. It is okay.

This deserves a better reception than it's gotten. Playing on the dual meaning of the title, it's both a pretty run-of-the-mill rom-com, but it's also a much needed satire on the state of our bureaucratic, uninspired, straitjacketed system of higher learning. In fact it's kind of surprising role for Tina Fey to take given it's less than liberal take on things. Might its political incorrectness be the reason for its poor reception?

About as sparsely funny as Date Night. I suspect I will have forgotten most every detail in a matter of days.

Went in for a comedy, considering who stars in it, got a drama. So no, it's really not funny, but Fey does a good job in a dramatic role and I always like Rudd, regardless, because dude is charming. It does have an interesting premise, but I really just wish their were some laughs, because it's such a waste when it's not funny and it's marketed as a comedy AND you had Rudd and Fey. Decent flick though, really.

I thought this movie had a lot of heart. It didn't hit every mark to be admitted to the hall of fame but I liked it as a romantic drama. I was expecting this to have more comedy in this since Fey and Rudd are both in the Comedy business. There was very little laugh lines and more solid dramatic moments that make you fall in love with the characters. I'm still a little ambivalent on the ending but it doesn't bother me too much. I enjoyed seeing the chemistry of Fey and Rudd to rip on this.

Decent movie that loses all of it's momentum just after the mid-way point. Worth a watch but not much more.

Interesting concept... not quite the execution I was hoping for.

Moderately entertaining.

Aren't rich people and elitist institutions -who admit through some snide, corrupt, x-factor bullshit- brilliant?, neither is this film. What boggles the mind is that Princeton saw this -really dull- romance as some kind of advert.

The defining moment of this movie is a small one (no spoilers): in the third act, the first opportunity for a funny, slightly dark, out-of-left-field in the entire movie is... thrown out the window in favor of a fleeting moment of sentimentality. It's this film's thesis statement: unearned sentiment above comedy, above character development, and above common sense.

Rudd and Fey are quite delightful but the film lacks jokes and like pathos instead of melodrama. Virginia Woolf scholar is good stuff

One expects a comedy with names like Rudd and Fey..mediocre drama

Oh, the random-ass things you'll watch if you happen to be on HBO at 1 AM!

Boring as it was, I didn't manage to watch the whole thing.

I enjoyed watching Fey and Rudd but thats really all there is here. Not all that good or that funny there is enough here to watch sometime.

Not much of a comedy, as I didn't laugh once and don't recall any moments in which the viewer is supposed to laugh. The university admission process is pretty much just an incredibly dull setting for the main plot, which I just could not care about in the slightest. Fey discovers a kid she may have gave up for adoption moons ago, and a sort of romance with Paul Rudd? Dunno, i zoned out a lot. Expected a lot more from Rudd and Fey.

İlginç 1 romantik komedi. Princeton üniversitesini kazanmak isteyen gençler, mülakatlarını inceleyen araştırma görevlisi, 1 lise öğretmenine aşık olur. İşte başarılı olan Tina Fey, Paul Rudd'a peşini koşturur. Çünkü oğlunu üniversiteye yazdırmak ister. Satır aralarında ince espriler olan 1 film. Eğitim ile ilgili ön yargılar var. Kaynana sahnesi gereksiz. Mülakatda torpiller havada. Değişik son yapmasa iyiydi. Buldun yakışıklıyı Tina Fey dudaktan

This film has a good cast. The script has a few good moments but also some unrealistic and boring moments. Overall this movie is disappointing.

A warm, well-acted drama weighed down by the trappings of a hamfisted, serendipitous comedy. Tiny Fey and Paul Rudd still refuse to leave their comfort zones. I hope real-life admissions officers don't act like this, but it probably isn't much of an exaggeration. Lily Tomlin's comedy chops blow everyone else's away despite her minimal screentime.

Unfunny, boring, shallow and disengaging are some words to describe Admission

I'm with all the reviews - definitely not a comedy, it's only funny if you find "life works in a mysterious ways" funny. However, it is worth watching because of Paul and Tina. Although I don't see and can't feel a chemistry between them, their performances were really good.

5- worth experiencing, alright

Strikes an odd, surprisingly dramatic tone; it mostly still works, and it's a fine, entertaining watch, with a relatively original and intelligent storyline to boot. But it's not really even close to being a comedy, which is a tad disconcerting for a film starring Fey and Rudd. Maybe that's just my own preconceptions talking, I dunno.