Critic Reviews
| 80 |
Dallas Observer
An adaptation that can rightfully be called brilliant.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
It's great unruly fun.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
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| 59 |
Mr. Showbiz
Just isn't funny enough to sustain the lunacy.
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| 50 |
Variety
Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Among the year's biggest disappointments.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting.
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| 50 |
New York Post
A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end.
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
Quite a spectacle, but the movie falls flat.
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| 40 |
Film.com
A weirdly stillborn experience.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
Vonnegut's brand of juvenile surrealism...doesn't age especially well...but it could hardly be worse served than to be brought to the screen with such ham-fisted literal-mindedness.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
This is the most-off-the-mark adaptation of a novel since Brian DePalma's what-was-that "Bonfire of the Vanities."
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| 0 |
Entertainment Weekly
A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
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