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Blow Dry
Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 19
  3. Negative: 6 out of 19
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  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    80
    It's fun. Hey, it's almost spring, Rickman is fabulous and so is Richardson. Warren Clarke is continually funny. And Heidi Klum alone will melt the snows of yesteryear.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    75
    If Blow Dry isn't a rousing triumph on the order "of The Full Monty" and "Brassed Off," Rickman, Richardson and Nighy make sure it's a winning film.
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  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    60
    This comedy-drama was written by Simon Beaufoy, who brought us "The Full Monty," and it has some of the same gamy mix of alternative sexuality and working-class heart.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    50
    A cute, well-acted film that tries to mix tones sharply.
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  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    50
    At least a half monty.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    The characters, in short, are never given enough dimension, enough chance to develop the individual tics and eccentricities on which this kind of comedy thrives.
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  7. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    50
    A feel-good us-against-them tale that panders mercilessly to its audience, yet displays a few moments of honest humor.
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  8. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    50
    Shows its roots early on: Mixing the high camp of "Strictly Ballroom" with Monty's gritty milieu, the film comes off as little more than a contrived composite, despite the best efforts of pros Rickman, Richardson, and Griffiths.
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  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    The result is formulaic, shamelessly manipulative and surprisingly watchable.
  10. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    50
    Written by Mr. ''Full Monty'' himself, Simon Beaufoy, and, like ''Monty,'' sprinkles pixie dust over the heads of worn out local folk.
  11. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    50
    It may be possible that people who never go to the movies will stumble across Blow Dry and find it a charming way to spend an hour and a half, but the rest of us will have the ending written in our heads by the end of the first five minutes.
  12. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    Despite its dollops of good-natured humor and sentiment, Blow Dry is likely to play better on the tube as a likable-enough diversion.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    40
    Limp comedy-drama.
  14. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    30
    A limp and lackluster affair that telegraphs its feel-good smarm miles in advance.
  15. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    30
    Seems both overplotted and underimagined, though there is at least some creativity and a dose of realism, evident in the hairstyles themselves.
  16. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    Although filled with fey, flamboyant characters, the stereotype of the gay hairdresser seems to have been meticulously expunged.
  17. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    25
    Rickman and Richardson are excellent actors put to ghastly waste.
  18. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    12
    The most catastrophic misfire in a dreadful movie season.
  19. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    10
    There are gruelingly unfunny gags, an unspeakable soundtrack featuring BTO and Billy Ocean, and Victoria's Secret mannequin Heidi Klum as a model who demands that her pussy hair be styled into a bushy red heart.
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