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0Nothing about this movie works.
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25Adam Sandler does Frank Capra wrong. His unfunny remake stomps all over the honest values and endearing qualities of the original.
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38There's no chemistry between Deeds and Babe, but then how could there be, considering that their characters have no existence, except as the puppets in scenes of plot manipulation.
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38Turturro is the one thing that's right with the movie. Perhaps the weakest thing about the new "Deeds" is its utter lack of a strong viewpoint and real emotion.
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20Sandler is -- à la "The Wedding Singer" -- in his washout romantic mode here, and no amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper he ain't.
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10What's most interesting about this new film is how lacking it is in any of the things, from humor to emotion to halfway decent acting, we might go to a movie for. There's not even enough here to get mad at.
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0A torturous, mawkish, ill-conceived remake.
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38Something's wrong with the math here -- the inheritance of the story's small-town hero is enlarged from $20 million to $40 billion, yet the new movie isn't worth the price of a Depression-era ticket.
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20Hollywood movies are once again taking on the job that Andy Griffith–era TV sitcoms used to fill, touting homespun values in Never Land.
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10It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.
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10This is another of those post-Saturday Night Live vehicles in which ineptitude and laziness are supposed to be taken as irony: It's not bad, it's "bad." Actually, it's "terrible":
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20Mr. Deeds is mostly terrible, a shambles of a comedy that looks as if it was shot by a tabloid news crew.
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30This is a terrible movie in its own right, tasteless and condescending -- if Sandler's character is an Everyman, than the Everyman of today is a boorish jackass
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20A perfectly dreadful film.
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0Stay home. Your entertainment-seeking efforts would be better expended perusing old phone books. The white pages.
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20The remake stumbles from a ragged start into a child's garden of worses -- worse than the original in more ways than you could imagine.
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20Crazy, ugly and scary. In fact, a sense of the grotesque runs thought the film; an extended joke about Sandler's black, dead foot (from frostbite as a kid) borders on something you find in John Waters.
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10The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 48
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Mixed: 6 out of 48
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Negative: 14 out of 48
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CharlesM.10There are some of the funniest scenes ever produced in a movie. Don't take it to serious or compare to anything else.
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FrankO.5