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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie itself is fun: goofy, softhearted, fussy, sometimes funny, and with the sort of happy ending that columnists like to find for their stories and hardly ever find themselves.
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMr. Apted has made this a sweet, engaging movie that audiences will very much want to see end well.
- 70Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyA refreshing fall film. [18 Sep 1981, p.19]
- 67The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinContinental Divide should have marked Belushi's tentative, encouraging first step towards quirkier, more substantive roles and films. Instead it, and Neighbors were more of a dead end.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis unlikely love story never really pays off, largely due to Lawrence Kasdan's contrived script. To their credit, a very subdued Belushi and an appealing Brown do their best to add a patina of light charm to this minor effort, and largely they succeed.
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelKasdan has eliminated all the conflicting interests and the psychological impediments to a happy marriage, leaving the physical separation as the only obstacle. There's nothing left for the movie to be about except how the hero and the heroine can conquer space. (And at the end, the pictured fudges even this.)