Metacritic reviews

Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.

There is really nothing wrong with Peter Chelsom's Town & Country that younger stars would not have solved.

Where Town and Country gets really good and weird – and I do mean good – is only after about an hour into it in deepest, darkest Idaho.

What it does offer, however, are the pleasures of watching its seasoned stars expertly go through their familiar paces.

Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.

The humor here is overcooked to the point of limpness.

The surprise behind Town and Country isn't that the director started filming without a finished script, but that he ever thought he had the start of one.

What it doesn't have is a script that has anything original, cohesive, or, gasp -- funny -- to say.

The script's tone veers chaotically -- and ambitiously -- at once aiming for a Noel Coward kind of elegant sparring, then for the lightly raunchy, rompy absurdism of "What's New, Pussycat?"

Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that's already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie's ineptitude is almost incomparable.