- Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM)
- Release Date: Jun 1, 2001
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80The movie made me laugh a lot anyway. It has a big, inventive cast of loons and a great premise.
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63Mostly a lazy string of setups and sight gags, of tongue-in-cheek confrontations between the two stars that barely amount to sketches.
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63This dispensable comedy has a few unexpectedly loopy surprises, including an outlandishly gay detective (played by versatile actor William Fichtner), who loves the Ice Capades but loathes insurance fraud.
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63Best when DeVito plays off the supporting cast surrounding him.
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60Actually boasts a decent script with character development, a sense of pace and some well-drawn supporting roles.
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50Filmmakers run out of ideas long before the final.
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This sometimes funny but ultimately convoluted movie would have benefited enormously from letting Lawrence loose.
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50Supposed to be a cheeky little lark but instead runs a narrow gamut from labored to aimless.
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50This frothy little crime comedy isn't half bad, bubbling with caper-farce energy supplied by a game ensemble cast and a source novel by prolific pulp writer Donald E. Westlake.
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50I don't know when a bad movie has made me laugh as much as this one. Most of the gags are vintage silliness: foreign double talk, characters donning funny costumes, well-timed profanities.
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42It simply isn't that funny or clever. For a comedy, that's about the worst that could happen
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40Struggles for any kind of movement and cohesion -- and most of all for any kind of humor.
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40Among the disconnected scenes are a few that are downright hilarious, and the actors do their best to rise above disjointed material.
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40Lawrence forgoes his knack for verbal comedy and replaces it with crude nonstop mugging.
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40Laborious in the unfolding of its plot, and under Sam Weisman's brash direction the unabashed amorality of the material is crass rather than sly in tone.
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40The movie turns into a cobweb of tricky spins and twists that seems like a hip-hop version of "Ruthless People."
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40The star in this case is Martin Lawrence, who is not only thoroughly upstaged by nemesis Danny DeVito but is completely boxed out of his comfort zone for broad physical comedy.
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40Certainly grows in its own right, into a coarse-grained summer vaudeville that could have been much smarter and sharper without losing its target audience.
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38Packed with gratuitous dumb moments -- which is too bad, given that the premise has promise.
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38Dumbed down to the point where it's barely recognizable as coming from one of Donald Westlake's John Dortmunder novels.
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33A film with almost zero redeeming value.
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30The movie is a mess.
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30Dull, plodding comedy.
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30Now and then sputters to comic life but more usually wheezes along.
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25Too many characters, not enough plot, and a disconnect between the two stars' acting styles.
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20Comes off as a desperate attempt to breathe life into dull proceedings.
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20I'd rather watch a forgotten houseplant dehydrate and die.
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16Maybe the worst thing that can happen is that every other movie at the multiplex will be sold out this weekend.
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