A.O. Scott asks some questions in his generally favorable review of Cellular:
All of this happens before you have time to ask how a science teacher can afford a brand-new Porsche Cayenne and a Brentwood mansion with live-in help, or why, on a day when school is in session, this particular science teacher is not at work. (You may also wonder why none of your science teachers looked or dressed like Ms. Basinger, but never mind.) But to pose such questions — and others that arise during the diverting, implausible 89 minutes of “Cellular,” which opens today nationwide — is to miss the point and spoil the fun.