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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The A.V. ClubThe A.V. ClubComic-ensemble performance at its darkest.
- 80NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenThanks to the superb cast and Mottola's deft touch, this modest-looking comedy proves quite memorable.
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonWhen you’re through watching The Daytrippers, you think about its minor imperfections, not because the film’s bad, but because it’s so good.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenWriter-director Greg Mottola's first feature is a deceptively quiet and funny film that sticks in your memory long after you think you've left the theatre.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe Daytrippers is at its best using parody to paint an incisively humorous picture of a modern American family. We see here just how dysfunctional the typical nuclear family can be, and that "family values" aren't always the solution. Even though The Daytrippers is played primarily for laughs, there's a lot of truth lurking beneath the comic exterior.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe Daytrippers is low-budget perfection, a comedy without a false note and without a flat joke.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserThere is something nicely matter-of-fact about Greg Mottola's family comedy-trauma, The Daytrippers. This first-time writer-director has a breezy way of persuading us that seemingly unrealistic behavior is the most natural in the world.
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe main action of The Daytrippers is bright, real and even poignant enough to make this journey worth the ride.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Daytrippers has some of the wacky dysfunctional chic that made David O. Russell’s Flirting With Disaster such a grating experience, but writer-director Greg Mottola has a lighter, warmer touch; his characters don’t have to act like pigs in order to prove they’re human.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe outcome of this journey is going to be predictable and disappointing. Mottola does his best to make the trip itself enjoyable.