The Dissolve:
Behaving Badly is 97 minutes in a search of a laugh, each of them so punishing that viewers are left to spend most of the movie trying to figure out what went wrong.
[1/5]
Blu-Ray:
Comedy is subjective, perhaps the one genre that divides audiences the most. However, it’s important to spot when a production is actually trying to secure a healthy sense of humor and when filmmakers are simply flinging anything at the screen with hopes something sticks. “Behaving Badly” doesn’t try at all. It’s vulgar and lazy, and most importantly, there’s not a single titter to be had. Co-writer/director Tim Garrick imagines himself the conductor on a symphony of the outrageous with this feature, but its ugliness shouldn’t be underestimated simply because the movie is looking to provide a good time.
“Behaving Badly” is one of the worst pictures of 2014, a tribute to “Risky Business” made by people who only read the synopsis on the back of the DVD box. [1/10]
Baret News:
Behaving Badly, a screwball comedy directed by Tim Garrick that’s far more raunchy than it is funny. This tasteless teensploitation flick serves up generous helpings of gratuitous nudity and profanity but precious little that elicits any laughter. A misfiring misadventure not even recommended for diehard Selena Gomez fans.
[1/4]
Hollywood Reporter:
Following her raunchy turn in Spring Breakers, Selena Gomez claws back most of her squeaky clean teen-queen image in
Behaving Badly, a clumsy high-school sex comedy that tries too hard to be both shocking and endearing, falling short on both counts. Aside from a few lines of juicy bad language, Gomez plays the innocent in this fast-paced screwball farce, which is full of cheerful vulgarity but dangerously low on wit, charm or narrative logic.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service:
A game supporting cast and a miscast leading man add up to a half-hearted randy teen farce.
[1.5/4]
Slant Magazine:
Rick's ultimate journey becomes less about atonement than simply getting the girl, and moral reclamation reveals itself as the vehicle by which to peddle a bunch of people behaving badly.
[2/4]
Rotten Tomatoes:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/behaving_badly_2014/
