Variety
Even the Brit-wit chemistry of Russell Brand and Helen Mirren can't offset the self-conscious degree to which this tame, calculated effort sticks to its source.
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Arthur (2011)
An update of the 1981 film of the same name, starring rent-a-fop Russell Brand in the role that Dudley Moore made famous, from the director of TV's Modern Family and the writer of Borat.
Brand plays a charming drunk in New York who is on the way to losing a hefty inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn't like (Greta Gerwig, Greenberg). They'd rather he married wealthy heiress (Jennifer Garner), but he's just not that into her...
2011110 minsUSA
Re-makeRomantic Comedy
- Director:
- Jason Winer (feature debut, TV's 'Modern Family')
- Writer:
- Peter BaynhamSteve Gordon
- Cast:
- Russell BrandHelen MirrenJennifer GarnerGreta GerwigNick NolteLuis Guzmán
Arthur (2011) / Reviews
The New York Times
The star does his patented shtick, supported by a handful of blue-chip supporting performers, as the story lurches through contrived, seminaughty comic set pieces toward a sentimental ending.
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Roger Ebert
A fairly close remake of the great 1981 Dudley Moore movie, with pleasures of its own.
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Hollywood Reporter
In the end, it isn't so much that the New Arthur isn't the Old Arthur. Rather it's the anti-Arthur.
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