New York Times "...Mr. Ferrell uses his hilarious, anxious zealotry to sell the part..." 02/21/2003 p.E13USA Today "...Luke Wilson is affably low-key..." 02/21/2003 p.14D Entertainment Weekly "...Under Reitman's direction, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness..." 02/28/2003 p.59 Variety "...Lively....The reliably funny Farrell's periodic party-monster outbursts amuse..." 02/17/2003 p.39-44 Box Office "...What's funny are the myriad bits and gags and show-stoppers....[An] expertly timed comedy..." 05/01/2003 p.62 Los Angeles Times "...Wilson has ineffable charm and Ferrell natural comic timing..." 02/21/2003 p.C1 Sight and Sound "...OLD SCHOOL works best when it combines its belly laughs with a disarming pathos, deriving from its characters' well-sketched sense of confusion over what they want from life..." 07/01/2003 p.54 Film Comment "...Consistently funny, good hearted..." 07/01/2003 p.77 Total Film "...Great concept..." 12/01/2003 p.115 Ultimate DVD "[A] very likeable role swap comedy, with Wilson, Ferrell and Vaughn forming a winning triumvirate as they fire off tautly crafted gags with plenty of belly laughs." 04/01/2008 p.69 |