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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayIt's a funny, fearless, poignant, spectacular performance. Come to think of it, those words could well apply to the entirety of Tadpole.
- 90VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyA smart sex comedy that successfully swims upstream to spawn and score.
- 88USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigAn irreverent and witty comedy in which the events aren't predictable but are well paced.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleWitty, adult treatment of an offbeat subject: a pubescent boy's infatuation with an older woman.
- 70Film ThreatRon WellsFilm ThreatRon WellsNot a film that will change your life. It instead proves that shooting your movie with cheap technology doesn't mean it can't be fun or entertaining. In the end, that's enough.
- 70The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThough sloppily structured and sometimes dangerously flimsy (not to mention truncated at a mere 78 minutes), Tadpole has an unforced charm that compensates for the absence of more traditional cinematic virtues.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisWritten in wisps and watery double-entendres by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller, and the movie is so benign that its proceedings are beside the point.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI praised "Lovely & Amazing," which also features a romance between an adult woman and a teenage boy. But "Lovely & Amazing" is about events that happen in a plausible world (the adult is actually arrested). Tadpole wants only to be a low-rent "Graduate" clone.
- 50SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekThe big problem with it is that the setup is treated as just that, a scheme around which many things that are intended to be funny (but aren't very) are packed like ice around a fish.
- 40TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelThis is, alas, one weary ride--77 minutes that sometimes feel like that many hours.