Metacritic Film

Big Tease, The

Starring Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Chris Langham, and Mary McCormack

MPAA RATING: R for language

Warner Bros.
Comedy
86 minutes | Color
USA / UK
Released In Theaters January 28, 2000

Scottish hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie (Ferguson), Glasgow's finest, has come to compete in The World Freestyle Hairdressing Championship, where fashion is queen and the perfect "do" will make you king. (Warner Brothers)

WRITTEN BY
Sacha Gervasi
Craig Ferguson

DIRECTED BY
Kevin Allen

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

53 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 Mr. Showbiz
Crawford's such a good-hearted guy, you can't help but want a cut from his clippers.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
Aims to do nothing but please, and it accomplishes its modest aim with charm and intelligence.
70 TV Guide
The film's potshots are perfectly aimed.
70 Los Angeles Times
A cheerful and smart mock documentary about hairdressing and Hollywood that knows enough not to take itself too seriously.
70 Rolling Stone
Irresistibly silly.
67 Entertainment Weekly
More a sampling of previous crowd-pleasers...than a fashion statement all its own.
63 Charlotte Observer
Easy to like.
63 New York Daily News
One of those bright ideas for a TV sketch that convinces someone it's too good to waste on the small screen. It's not.
63 USA Today
Pleasing piffle.
60 The New York Times
As it rubs our noses in our own fascination with vanity and the silliest values in life, it's charming enough to make us like it.
60 LA Weekly
How nice to see a new comic lead (Ferguson) with the confidence not to hog the screen.
60 TNT RoughCut
(Ferguson is) so cheeky and effeminate, he becomes more of a caricature than an actual person.
50 Film.com
Does a lot of little stuff right, and it sparkles at times.
50 Salon.com Daniel Mangin
As light as a squirt of styling mousse.
50 New York Post
Has its share of laughs.
50 Newsweek
Enough already with the faux documentary!
50 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An innocuous, hit-and-miss affair.
50 Dallas Observer
A mildly amusing romp.
50 Boston Globe
What saves it is that it's lighter than mousse and is animated by a handful of engaging performers.
50 Chicago Sun-Times
Never quite attains takeoff velocity.
30 Village Voice
A sub-sitcom stretched to an interminable 85 minutes.
30 Chicago Reader
Laughless, brainless, styleless, and clueless.
25 Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
An inept comedy.

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