Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is receiving several nice notices. Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal provides one of them: "I was won over, just as the target audience will be," he writes. Then there's one from Claudia Puig in USA Today, who calls it "unexpectedly charming" Then there's Roger Ebert's in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Because it embraces its innocence like a lucky charm, it works, for those willing to allow it. Others will respond with a horse laugh, and although I cannot quarrel with them I do not share their sentiments." Certainly the majority of major critics do not share Ebert's (or Morgenstern's). Desson Thomson writes in the Washington Post: "There are so many layers of bad when it comes to the Hollywood romantic comedy, it would take the film-reviewing equivalent of a geologist to identify them precisely." And Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News remarks that Hamilton and director Robert Luketic's earlier film Legally Blonde "are confections that combine so many unsteady elements that they eventually blow up in your face, leaving a sticky bubble-gum residue that's hard to wash off." But many critics take the middle view typified by Bruce Westbrook's in the Houston Chronicle, who writes: "Formulaic, predictable and skimpy on characters, it succeeds, thanks to a lively, fresh cast and a director who sidesteps cornball sweetness."
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