| 80 |
Chicago Reader
The concept itself is so strong - particularly as a revenge fantasy for anyone who's ever resented hypocritical exploitative shrinks - that it winds up working pretty well anyway.
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| 80 |
Variety
Staff (Not Credited)
Bill Murray finds a real showcase for his oft-shackled talent in this manic comedy.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Desson Howe
Bob rests entirely on Murray's shoulders. But he more than takes the weight.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss star in this hilarious brain-teaser about a patient who suffers acute separation anxiety when his psychiatrist goes on vacation.
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| 80 |
Time
Murray, with his curious blend of pathos and aggressiveness, is terrific, and so is an acutely uptight Dreyfuss, never once copping a plea for our sympathy.
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| 75 |
TV Guide
Staff (Not Credited)
Actors Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss provide the frenzied fun that highlights What About Bob? a wacky slapstick comedy.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
What About Bob? is a one-joke movie, but what a funny joke!
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
What About Bob? is just funny enough to make you wish it had been wilder and less predictable.
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| 63 |
Christian Science Monitor
Bill Murray's manic performance is the main selling point of this mildly amusing farce about a psychiatrist with a patient who literally drives him crazy
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| 60 |
Empire
Jo Berry
What makes the film work is the double act between the two actors, and some great one-liners that pepper the script and cover up the fact there isn’t a great deal of originality in the plot.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
What About Bob? does work as comedy for a while, thanks to the fortuitous teaming of Mr. Dreyfuss and Mr. Murray.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Stephen Hunter
Murray is very funny in the early going when his irritation-shtick is allowed full play; when he turns doughily benign in the late going, he's much less interesting. [17 May 1991]
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Clifford Terry
A broadly played, by-the-numbers comedy that pits your consummate classic nut case against your quintessential screwed-up shrink. [17 May 1991]
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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
But there's still Murray, who drives the idea further than it has any right to go. He energizes the loony schtick of the opening scenes. [17 May 1991]
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| 50 |
USA Today
A sentimental comedy about mental illness (complete with a sitcom family), wobbly Bob offers further evidence that Disney itself may be afflicted with encroaching schizophrenia. [17 May 1991]
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
Ted Mahar
It recalls a kind of French farce that assumes its audiences want to see the rich suffer. [18 May 1991]
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a bomb - not the usual bomb, but a time bomb, despite a 20-minute stretch at the beginning that goes along nicely. [17 May 1991]
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