Critic score: 29/100 - User score: 8.6/10 - I thought everyone loved Simon Pegg, including critics. I guess Britain's golden boy can't always make hits. In 'Hector and the Search for Happiness,' Simon Pegg plays a middle-aged guy looking for meaning and happiness in his life. Aren't all middle aged men looking for this? Isn't it something all of them can relate to? Maybe the middle-aged male critics felt this hit too close to home, and the female critics just didn't get it. Who knows, but it didn't slow Simon Pegg down one bit.
What critics said: "The film aims for twee, but lands on torturous. It's narcissism blown up to a global scale, in the guise of a quirky voyage of self-discovery." Anytime something tries to be twee, I'm out. I don't like the word. I don't like what it means. I don't like what it feel like rolling off my tongue.