| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...an ideal showcase for the talents of Coogan..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"Shakespeare might not like it, but you will (barely)." more... |
B- |
E! Online
Matt Stevens |
"...irreverent satire..." more... |
B+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy..." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"Fleming puts a lot of weight on Coogan and, more often than not, it pays off." more... |
C |
Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge |
"Uneven but often hilarious slapstick satire of Middle America." more... |
B- |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"...an uneven film in which the hits are so dead-on that the misses don't seem to matter." more... |
B- |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"I laughed zero times..." more... |
D- |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"...intermittently funny." more... |
C+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Some scenes and performances cull laughter; others fall flat." more... |
B- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...more likely to elicit quiet chuckles than raucous laughter. " more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a frequently amusing and consistently outrageous but ultimately tiresome farce..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...it doesn't quite live up to its eccentrically campy promise." more... |
B- |
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