YMMV / The Hustle

• Critic-Proof: Despite receiving generally negative reviews, the movie grossed nearly $100 million worldwide against a $21 million budget.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Critics and audiences lamented that the movie presented nothing more than Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with a technological upgrade and the genders of the scam artists and the victims switched around.^note When Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remade Bedtime Story, at least it gave the script a more feminist ending.
• Magnificent Bastard: Thomas Westerburg is the grandson and successor of legendary con artist, Medusa. Posing as the billionaire creator of the tech app YaBurnt as a ploy to lure out Penny and Josephine knowing that the two intend on swindling him, Thomas plays the part of a naive young man he convinces Josephine to "invest" $500,000 into his app and guilt trips Penny into giving him another $500,000 by tricking her into believing that he paid for her "eye surgery". Leaving the country with his loot, when Thomas returns he teams up with them in his scams, having taken a genuine liking to the two women.