| 80 |
Variety
One of the summer's more pleasant surprises. A silly bit of tiptop tomfoolery with cross-generational appeal.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
I enjoyed the film more than I expected to. It's harmless, simple-minded.
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| 75 |
New York Post
A kindler, gentler comedy that's perfect for children and parents to see together.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Eric Idle--a royal among sillies--turns in a wonderfully wacky performance.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Mostly pitched at a new crop of children who will detect the movie's mildly sarcastic, audience-winking tone with no problem.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
This whole movie is fun, and smart too, a fitting tribute to Jay Ward's original cartoons.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Works well as family entertainment.
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| 50 |
Dallas Observer
M. V. Moorhead
Isn't great; it doesn't come within a Yukon mile of its TV namesake. But it's agreeably bizarre.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
The balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
The needle on the laugh-o-meter barely budges.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Betsy Sherman
Never gets horribly bad, but can't sustain its moments of inspiration either.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
The plot is Kate-Moss thin. Basically agreeable stuff, but not much more. And that's a shame.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Enough flickers of Jay Ward's gloriously subversive sensibility to make it watchable, but it also has enough lengthy stretches of pure triteness to make it easy to skip altogether.
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| 40 |
Film.com
As flat as the brim of a Mountie hat.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Like an obnoxious uncle desparately trying to amuse the young'uns with poo-poo humor and dum-dum pratfalls.
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| 35 |
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
Follows the current trend of once-popular cartoons turned into mediocre live-action incarnations.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
This terrible live-action comedy based on Jay Ward cartoons has its moments and its near misses.
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| 26 |
Mr. Showbiz
You'd think creating confusion during something as woodenly simpleminded as Dudley Do-Right is no easy task, but you'd be wrong.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A big dud.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
Wilson's plot compulsively leaps from paper-thin to near-incoherent.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Dead-carcass spinoff of Jay Ward's animated TV favorite.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
Tiresome, inept farce that's not even a fraction as clever or entertaining as it likes to imagine it is -- a complete waste of time.
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