Collin Brennan: Film Review: The Do-Over. In: consequenceofsound.net. Consequence of Sound, 27. Mai 2016, abgerufen am 19. Mai 2019: „The Do-Over isn’t Sandler at his best, but it’s also not quite as putrid as what we’ve come to expect from him lately. A central plot device in the film is a key that’s been stuffed up a corpse’s rectum, and that’s a decent metaphor for Sandler’s Netflix-era output: Sure, it stinks, but it still fits somewhere.“
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Christian Holub: Review. In: Entertainment Weekly. 27. Mai 2016, abgerufen am 19. August 2024 (englisch): „The plot threads can be a little hard to follow […] but Sandler and Spade's partnership gives the whole enterprise enough emotional grounding to make up for it. […] The Do Over is a fairly standard action comedy, but the extremely low standard of recent Sandler work […] makes that a relief.“
Jordan Hoffman: Adam Sandler misfires in identity-theft yukfest. In: The Guardian. 31. Mai 2016, abgerufen am 19. August 2024 (englisch): „Surely this movie must be almost over, you think, as you jab the pause button on your remote – only to find you are at the 50-minute mark with another 58 to go.“
