When it comes to I Love You, Beth Cooper, most critics don't. These are some of their descriptions. Claudia Puig, USA Today: "This leaden teen comedy is meant to be lively, but it's curiously bland." A.O. Scott, New York Times: a "drab and incoherent teen comedy." Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: an "unfunny, unoriginal, charmless teen comedy." Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: "The distance from shameless rip-off to loving homage may not be far, but it is a chasm this film fails to jump." On the other hand, Kyle Smith writes in the New York Post that the movie "isn't especially hilarious, but it has a warm sense of humor instead of a string of gross-out jokes. It'll be a cable mainstay."