Jeremy of The Daily Rotation wrote, "Aubrey Plaza stars in Maggie Carey‘s directorial debut The To-Do List, an R-rated raunchy comedy about a girl playing catchup on her sexual escapades before she hits the college scene. The To-Do List is very much a cheap raunchy comedy, like the surprise hit Sex Drive, but where that film surprises with charm and a constantly flowing sense of humor The To-Do List detours into complete gross-out humor that sometimes works, but mostly for the viewers’ simple amusement. It’s not a bad film, especially for a newcomer director, but it’s also not a good one because of its hit-or-miss comedic delivery and constant feeling of trying too hard to push a joke beyond its welcome."
WGTC writes: Writer-director Maggie Carey leaves the heart out of this American Pie wannabe and wastes a supremely talented cast on a witless and off-puttingly vulgar script.
Clickonline writes: "While the character is billed as super-smart, she lacks even the most basic understanding of how regular human beings function, leading us up to a vomit-inducing LESSON moment in the third act. So emotions and friends are important, are they? Sex the entire purpose of existing? Who knew?!"
Collider:
As plenty of sex comedies have proved, sex acts can be hilarious when attempted by the inexperienced. The awkwardness is overwhelming, and the trick is to find the comedy rather than just making the audience uncomfortable at watching a teenager fumble through dry humping. The To Do List follows its close relative American Pie in pressuring its uptight protagonist to achieve sexual adequacy, but the “twist” is that the teenager is a woman because hey! Women want sex too! Despite writer-director Maggie Carey providing a welcome gender swap for the genre, the picture is surprisingly tame until it occasionally manages a sneak attack with some of the most shocking gross-out gags in recent memory. Unfortunately, the overbearing 90’s setting and an unfortunately miscast Aubrey Plaza undermine the sympathy we’re supposed to feel towards our protagonist.
I'm a bit interested in seeing this just to see where I would stand on this one (and because Plaza's in it ^^).