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Dudley Do-Right
Universal Pictures

Dudley Do-Right reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 44 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.7 out of 10
based on 23 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for mild comic action violence, and for brief language and innuendo

Starring Brendan Frasier, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, and Eric Idle

Follows the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Canadian Mountie (Frasier). (Universal Pictures)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Hugh Wilson
Jay Ward (characters)
 
DIRECTED BY: Hugh Wilson  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 28, 1999 
Video: December 28, 1999 
Theatrical: August 27, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 77 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Variety Joe Leydon
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 Roger Ebert
I enjoyed the film more than I expected to. It's harmless, simple-minded.
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75
New York Post Hannah Brown
A kindler, gentler comedy that's perfect for children and parents to see together.
75
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Eric Idle--a royal among sillies--turns in a wonderfully wacky performance.
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75
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
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 Chuck Wilson
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 Elvis Mitchell
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 Lisa Schwarzbaum
The balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.
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50
San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
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 Desson Thomson
Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
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40
TV Guide Steve Simels
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 Mary Elizabeth Williams
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 Robert Horton
As flat as the brim of a Mountie hat.
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38
Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
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.
30
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
This terrible live-action comedy based on Jay Ward cartoons has its moments and its near misses.
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26
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
You'd think creating confusion during something as woodenly simpleminded as Dudley Do-Right is no easy task, but you'd be wrong.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
A big dud.
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25
Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
Wilson's plot compulsively leaps from paper-thin to near-incoherent.
25
USA Today Mike Clark
Dead-carcass spinoff of Jay Ward's animated TV favorite.
10
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
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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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Howard M. gave it a 10:
This movie was funny and protrays a realistic snapshot of canadian life.

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