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Crew, The
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Crew, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 37 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.0 out of 10
based on 28 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, violence and language

Starring Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, and Seymour Cassel

To save their retirement home, four former mobsters plan one last job.


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Barry Fanaro  
DIRECTED BY: Michael Dinner  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 13, 2001 
Video: March 13, 2001 
Theatrical: August 25, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
I laughed all the way through it.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
A good-natured movie.
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63
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Sometimes hilarious but mostly sitcom-esque geezer comedy.
63
USA Today Mike Clark
Often livens up stale material with disarming loopiness and zest.
63
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Chaotic, sometimes funny.
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60
Film.com Gemma Files
No classic, but two hours well-spent nonetheless.
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58
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Drowns in flat, clumsy and obvious direction.
50
Film.com Robert Horton
A pleasant surprise that The Crew offers up the charms it does.
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50
Miami Herald Howard Cohen
Amiable, sporadically amusing farce.
50
Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
For the large-type crowd, one that prefers to have its "dirty" clean and silly.
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50
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Dogged allegiance to blandness.
50
San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
Tired comedy.
50
TV Guide Steve Simels
Much better than you'd expect, largely thanks to an extremely game cast.
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50
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
It's sunny and cheerful without coming off as too saccharine.
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40
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The acting--especially Dreyfuss's ability to roll with the mood swings--is impressive if not redemptive.
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40
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
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40
Variety Joe Leydon
The sentimentality is gently but firmly restrained in a potentially treacly subplot.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The Crew is all contrivance and we don't believe a minute of it.
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38
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The "Golden Girls" with gats.
36
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
Fuhgeddaboutit.
30
Los Angeles Times John Anderson
So mild, so benign, its humiliation-to-vindication are so predictable and its old-folks jokes so feeble.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Seems it's never going to reach liftoff.
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25
Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Fanaro's script never really hones in on the concept's potential.
25
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Each man's shtick swells into a frenzy of overacting.
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20
Austin Chronicle Russell Smith
Most folks are just plain bored -- and I mean cross-eyed, wall-climbing, deep-down-to-the-molecular-level bored -- with this ubiquitous Endearing Wiseguys school of movie comedy.
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20
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
There are moments that suggest the comedy that could have been.
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20
Village Voice Nico Baumbach
The humor is even more geriatric than the cast.
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20
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
When a burning rat is the funniest thing in your movie, I think you're in big trouble, even in Miami.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

raVen gave it a 4:
Has that uniquely rare blend of great actors and bad acting.

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