Metacritic Film

Screwed

Starring Norm Macdonald, Danny DeVito, David Chappelle, and Elaine Stritch

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, nudity, language, some violence and brief drug use

Universal Pictures
Comedy
81 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters May 12, 2000

Working for a wealthy boss, a chauffeur kidnaps her dog and holds it for ransom. Accidentally the boss gets the dog back and thinks the chauffer has been kidnapped.

WRITTEN BY
Scott Alexander
Larry Karaszewski

DIRECTED BY
Scott Alexander
Larry Karaszewski

Overall Metascore

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

7 / 100

Critic Reviews

25 USA Today
Clumsy on every level.
25 New York Post Hanna Brown
The real disappointment is Danny DeVito as a creepy coroner.
25 New York Daily News
You've got to give Norm Macdonald credit. When he cheats his audience, he warns them first.
25 Chicago Tribune
It's just a matter of holding your nose until the whole thing is over.
20 Chicago Reader
First-time directors Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski must have written the script for this comedy when they were about 12--and not changed a word.
20 TV Guide
As bad as the title, and much longer.
14 Mr. Showbiz
Go see this movie and you'll be...yup. You should save your money; Norm Macdonald should save his career, by quitting movies altogether.
10 Film.com
A black comedy that never gets black enough to inspire Farrelly-style decadence.
10 The New York Times
A confusedly misconceived hybrid of interracial buddy comedy and imitation Marx Brothers farce.
10 Variety
Latenight cable TV filler disguised as a feature film.
0 San Francisco Chronicle
Gives stupid, vulgar comedy a bad name.
0 Entertainment Weekly
It's a shrill, stupid, brickbat-blatant piece of hackwork that practically sweats to be ''commercial.''
0 LA Weekly
Miraculously seems a great deal longer (this is not a good thing) as it careens from shit joke to corpse joke to ass joke to dog-turd joke and back.

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