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  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • DreamWorks Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • DreamWorks Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Tim (Stiller) and Nick (Black) are best friends, neighbors and co-workers, whose equal footing is suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds: Vapoorizer, a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind for that matter, evaporate into thin air. Tim, who had poo-pooed Nick's idea a...

Directed By: Barry Levinson

Written By: Steve Adams

  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • DreamWorks Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • DreamWorks Distribution
  • 1 h 39 m

Envy

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 44 User Ratings
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Summary Tim (Stiller) and Nick (Black) are best friends, neighbors and co-workers, whose equal footing is suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds: Vapoorizer, a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind for that matter, evaporate into thin air. Tim, who had poo-pooed Nick's idea a...

Directed By: Barry Levinson

Written By: Steve Adams

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
31
7% Positive
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40% Mixed
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53% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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7% Positive
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40% Mixed
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53% Negative
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75
Quirky and enjoyable.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
50
Black somehow feels reigned in; shaved and barbered, he's lost his anarchic passion and is merely playing a comic role instead of transforming it into a personal mission.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
40
Can't decide whether to be an eccentric black comedy or a middle-of-the-road diversion.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
38
Envy makes a pretty entertaining three-minute trailer. If only they'd left it at that.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
30
Squandered in foolish horseplay and on a story that zigzags so far out of control that it feels as if the screenwriter, Steve Adams, pasted together a bunch of zany notions in a frantic search for confusion.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
25
Leaves you with the dismaying sensation that Levinson, who should probably be off making his own version of ''The Player,'' has instead crafted a comedy of self-loathing, burying himself in a movie that deserves to be Vapoorized.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
10
In short, every element suggests Envy ought to be amusing, but the only comparably disastrous movie in recent memory involves Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, and a rapping retarded man.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 44 User Ratings
2.0
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20% Mixed
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31 Ratings

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20% Mixed
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70% Negative
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Production Company Dreamworks Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, Baltimore Spring Creek Productions, NPV Entertainment, Millennium Films
Release Date Apr 30, 2004
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Success didn't go to his head, it went to his neighbor.
Website http://www.envy-themovie.com/
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Awards

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination

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