Critic Reviews

Admirably weird but only intermittently funny, Never Change! never quite reaches the heights of the comedies it so clearly emulates.

Acknowledging its aggressively absurd, obnoxiously obscene tone from the jump, “Never Change!” is one of those deadpan-yet-deranged comedies where everyone acts like a foul-mouthed, damn-near-sociopathic lunatic… but in a supposedly funny way.

It’s not just that the jokes fail. It’s that Reynolds’s hollow script doesn’t seem to know what it wants to say with them. The few bits of comedy that do land offer genuine insight into the collision of past and present.