Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
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36 out of 100

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5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 28 Ratings

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  • Starring: Alyssa Milano, David Spade, Mary McCormack
  • Summary: Dickie Roberts (Spade) is a 35-year old former child star. Now an out-of-work actor turned parking valet, Dickie is desperate to audition for a great role that could revitalize his career, but the part requires him to play a "normal" guy. Problem is, Dickie is anything but normal. He decides to hire a family to adopt him so he can relive his childhood and, in essence, grow up from scratch. (Paramount)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 31
  3. Negative: 12 out of 31
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    This sleek and sunny comedy is an all-too-rare example of smart and inventive Hollywood filmmaking.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    60
    Offers a largely satisfying mix of broad slapstick, seriocomic sentimentality and mostly amusing satirical thrusts at easy targets.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    58
    Imparts its fair share of laughs but bogs down after a solid start and never makes anything special out of its premise.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    38
    The best thing about star and co-writer David Spade's Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star is the end-title sequence, a big, sassy sing-along in which dozens of old TV child stars spew out defiant jokes about their old careers and fame's fickle fingers.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 8 out of 19
  1. Andrew
    9
    It was funny, entertaining, and still had a moral at the end... Thats what a good comedy should be.
  2. TheQuietGamer
    7
    A good movie in the end do to it's morals it teaches, but not the best comedy, granted it's funny during most parts but some scenes feel unnecessary and unfunny, the most funny scenes are when he's being crude and vulgar, and the unfunny ones when he's not, which unfortunately most of the time he's not, but the heartfelt moments (while predictable) make this worth the watch because they teach you something, and the song at the end credits is hilarious, honestly it's not the best movie but manages to provide a good lesson and some genuine laughs out there, all in all if you like Happy Madison's other movies you'll probably like this, just don't expect greatness.… Expand
  3. ArkonBlade
    5
    mildley funny but extremley predictable . the cameo apperiances by the former child stars felt more sad then any thing . spade does a so-so job carrying the film . all in all its some thing you would wach on tv or HBO. nothing much more then that,… Expand

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