User Score
6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Negative: 4 out of 19

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  1. MitchellT.
    Dec 19, 2002
    10
    Don't believe what they say. This movie is hilarious. Owen Wilson is god.
  2. Ryan
    Jul 17, 2003
    10
    Don't listen to what some say about this movie. It is actually really funny. At least give it a chance.
  3. JimU.
    Jan 26, 2007
    10
    This movie was amazing. Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson are amazing actors and the movie was reallly good.
  4. Feb 4, 2011
    10
    I must have seen this movie at least a dozen times. I don't understand why the critics gave it such a low rating - I would recommend this movie to anyone!
Metascore

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 31 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 31
  2. Negative: 15 out of 31
  1. Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    40
    The real problem with the new film, however, is a certain lack of chemistry between the leads; Wilson is game, as always, but his part is seriously underwritten, and while Murphy raises trash talking to the level of a fine art, he seems to be operating in another movie altogether.
  2. Nothing is real, but at the same time, nothing is fake. Nothing is, period. You don't believe a second of it for a second, so banal and predictable is it.
  3. TV's ''I Spy'' knew how to swing. The movie 'I Spy knows only how to scramble and string together moments of Murphy braggadocio and Wilson stoner-ocity, and the sweat shows.