Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

This is a toothless satire, a sermon lacking the bite or broad wit of similar films.

Cooper weaves a few well-placed observations about gun culture and male condescension into the heavy-handed mess.

Most of the time, though, the movie is too busy being saucy or sappy to even look at its target.

The movie tries to wrap an important social message in comedy, but it’s unpalatable all the way through.

Everybody involved with the awful comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?... owes Aristophanes an apology. It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable.

There are bad movies, and then there are worse movies, and then there are full-bore misfires such as Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

The film combines agonizing scenes of didactic earnestness about gun violence with the absolutely soul-crushing ennui of flaccid marriage jokes.