With this movie, if you don't laugh, you don't laugh. This is the feel good movie of the year. The "critics" have panned it, but I feel the audiences will have the last laugh.
Everyone in the theater I was in laughed throughout and applauded at the end. Apparently, the 'critics' don't have 'Kefi', or 'Mojo', or 'Spirit', or just can't laugh. Remember, they also panned "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". If I recall, a least a few million people saw that one and continue to see it and talk about it.
"My Life In Ruins" is simply fun, showing that a movie doesn't have to have bathroom humor to be funny.