The Kid & I
Metascore
37 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 6 out of 13
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    38
    Though The Kid & I falters as both a comedy and an After School Special, it works as a rather touching episode of "This is Your Life," with a parade of cameos from Arnold's career that'll coax a sniffle or two from his family.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Arnold's heart is in the right place, but somebody needs to save him from himself - and soon.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    Good intentions do not guarantee good movies, or even watchable ones. A sad case in point is The Kid and I.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis must have a soft spot for the disabled kids of billionaires, because both have cameos near the end of this vulgar and dreadfully dopey enterprise; more impressively savvy is director Penelope Spheeris, who plays herself directing the movie-within-a-movie and manages to seem superfluous in both roles.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    THE mesmerizingly awful The Kid & I is a historic first: a comedy about the making of a vanity production that is ITSELF a vanity production.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    25
    No matter how you parse it, the film is a bizarre muddle.

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