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50Nothing much happens, and that's the point, but all this wheel spinning could have used more grease.
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40The plots vary widely in their watchability -- from mildly amusing to stupefyingly godawful.
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75200 Cigarettes doesn't have a bad scene or a false note. The picture is a succession of pointed little moments, nicely written by Shana Larsen and acted with comic assurance and sensitivity.
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63Very much a looking-back movie; its most obvious model is "American Graffiti." But if you know that particular slice of early '80s Manhattan, you may be as amused as I was. [26 Feb 1999]
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50A tepid affair, distinguished by bland character development, uninspired and insipid dialogue, and a nonexistent plot.
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David Chappelle's performance as a cabbie is amusing, but the film should have been packaged with a Surgeon General's Warning - "Cigarettes is bad for you."
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25Not much of a plot, but the trouble is that Shana Larsen's script, as directed by Risa Bramon Garcia, isn't very deep. Worse, none of the self-absorbed characters are that likable nor are they funny.
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12Dreadful...Maybe another 200 cigarettes would have helped; coughing would be better than some of this dialogue.
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40Ridiculous haircuts and clothes can't compensate for the absence of real characters, which consigns much of the cast to cameo-like performances.
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30As forgettable as a puff off a generic-brand butt: filtered, flavored, and ultimately unsatisfying.
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42A gaggle of hip actors squander their gifts in this unfunny, out-of-control comedy.
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70A light comedy, pure and simple (and hardly unfamiliar), but its makers sustain its energy through the unraveling of an intricate plot and bring to it a certain edge through a witty, sharp sense of observation.
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60This film may never attain a critical mass of satiric understanding about its milieu or time, but at least its individual moments provide plenty of harmless laughter.
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60Gathers a partyful of young players and barely gives them enough of a story line to puff on, but it gets by on personality anyhow.
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60It's sweet, tart, brightly colored, insubstantial, and utterly lacking in nutritional value. It's also fun to consume, and harmless enough as long as it isn't your whole diet.
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50This disposable date movie is not so much written and acted as cast—just about every young actor in the country is in it.
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40Hit-and-mostly-miss.
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40The first few minutes have promise (with an all-star list of Gen-X actors), and the last few minutes provide fun (with snapshots of lovers and losers). In between there is a void--feeble jokes, a lot of falling down and foolish declarations.
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40Sappy.
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10The film is filled with actors you want to see -- just not in this thing.
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10Dismally unfunny...It's clear from the first few minutes that the performers are fighting an uphill battle against lame material, and the situation never improves as pic labors on.
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0More of a throwback to a period in the '70s when big-screen comedies like "FM" and "Thank God It's Friday" seemed to take all their cues from bad sitcoms, putting rice-paper-flat characters into vibrant settings and giving them nothing to do but exchange faux witty dialogue without the much-needed cues of a laugh track.
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0A twentysomething comedy with a brain-dead script, unflattering lighting and 16 performers in search of a scriptwriter...[It] feels like one-sixth of an idea stretched to the breaking point.
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50While the film comes to a mildly clever conclusion, it feels like a bottle of vintage champagne that never gets to pop its cork at midnight. All that fizz potential wasted. [26 Feb 1999]
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50But there's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling. 200 Cigarettes burns itself out well before midnight.
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38This vapid '80 punk party reeks of 200 Cigarettes.