Critic Reviews

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.

Is That a Gun resorts to smutty humor and moralistic speeches to confront the issue of American gun violence in the wake of Newtown, Conn. This movie uses those murdered babies’ name in vain.

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

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?

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.

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