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Joe Somebody
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
MPAA RATING: PG for language, thematic elements and some mild violence
Starring
Tim Allen,
Julie Bowen,
Kelly Lynch,
Greg Germann,
Hayden Panettiere,
Patrick Warburton,
James Belushi,
and
Jesse Ventura
Joe (Allen) is a divorced corporate drone whose dead-end personal and professional lives begin to turn around after the office bully humiliates Joe in front of his daughter.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
John Scott Shepherd
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| DIRECTED BY: |
John Pasquin
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 20, 2002
Video: August 20, 2002
Theatrical: December 19, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Joe Somebody sends audiences home happy but also with an awareness that happy endings have to be earned in real life as on the screen.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
A lot of this goes down surprisingly well, even if Panettiere, through no fault of her own, is saddled with phony precocious dialogue that makes her sound like an ancient sage.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
For all the story's bland familiarity, it has winning moments. Allen's no actor, but he projects a likeable personality.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included.
60
Film Threat
Gareth Von Kallenbach
An entertaining diversion and if you want a light film to just sit back and relax to, then this might just be your movie.

60
Variety
Scott Foundas
Pretty formulaic stuff: bland self-empowerment tinged with warm fuzzies in all the right places. But what makes this "Somebody" something is Pasquin's deft touch and understanding with the material.

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's not great; it's also not idiotic.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's routine, TV sitcom fodder, but the supporting cast is better than average.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
It turns out that Joe ends up liking the old Joe better too. Who just so happens to be the kind of average-Joe character that continues to make Allen such a tidy, non-Joe bundle.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Verdict: Not idiotic.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
An odd picture, a rumination on depression and self-discovery that's couched as an office comedy.

50
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
The best scenes in the movie belong to James Belushi.
50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
This is harmless fun for the holiday season, but Tim Allen doesn't give movie the punch it needs.
40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Continually squanders its opportunities for hilarity.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
It isn't until Joe starts getting confident and cocky that Allen starts to feel a little more natural in the role, and by then the movie's plot has all but evaporated into a series of wispy gags that barely register.

40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
The picture is nearly stolen, however, by co-star Greg Germann (of TV's Ally McBeal) in the role of Joe's company's resident corporate weasel. Germann's squinty-eyed insincerity is truly a marvel to behold, and it's an astringent corrective to the film's rather too frequent feel-good passages.

38
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
An unimaginative schoolyard-bully comedy.
38
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
If "American Beauty" were a bland comedy, it would be Joe Somebody.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's a simple, wholesome parable, crashingly obvious, and we sit patiently while the characters and the screenplay slowly arrive at the inevitable conclusion. It needs to take some chances and surprise us.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The demands of formula eventually stifle anything that even looks like inspiration or honesty.

30
LA Weekly
Mark Olsen
It all misses the mark emotionally, hindered by one-dimensional characters and telegraphed developments.

20
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Wasn't worth Allen's time and isn't worth yours.


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