while both Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson pour on the humor, "The Hustle" isn't up to the task of giving them a rich enough world to play in, and even their full-throttle performances can't save a cheap movie about wily people
there are others --goofy accents, nicely staged pratfalls, humiliations large and small-- though not much that rises to the level of unforgettable, wild-eyed, laugh-out-loud hilarity; "The Hustle" deserves some credit for fulfilling its own modest
there are laughs to be had, but given the talent involved this new telling of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels doesn't update the material enough to make it stand well on its own
The setups are flat, the jokes don't land and the actors don't -or won't- connect. How does this happen in a movie that stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, two proven experts at the art of farce?
Hathaway and Wilson, who spend most of the movie trying to outfox each other, inject their roles with outsize personality. Yet "The Hustle", fun as some of it is, is a tall fizzy drink in which the fizz never completely rises to the top of the glass
Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson flop hard in an enjoyment-free "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" remake that doubles down on rotten; Actual laughs would have gone a distance
a gender-switch reboot of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" co-starring Rebel Wilson is catastrophically unfunny; The incredible thing is that the film has many talented people who are entirely wasted
by Rochard Phippen [HeyUGuys ]
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
