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Dudley Do-Right
Universal Pictures
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Hugh Wilson
Jay Ward (characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Hugh Wilson
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 28, 1999
Video: December 28, 1999
Theatrical: August 27, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
77 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Variety
Joe Leydon
One of the summer's more pleasant surprises. A silly bit of tiptop tomfoolery with cross-generational appeal.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I enjoyed the film more than I expected to. It's harmless, simple-minded.
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.
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.
70
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
This whole movie is fun, and smart too, a fitting tribute to Jay Ward's original cartoons.
60
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Works well as family entertainment.
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.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
The needle on the laugh-o-meter barely budges.
50
Boston Globe
Betsy Sherman
Never gets horribly bad, but can't sustain its moments of inspiration either.
50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
The plot is Kate-Moss thin. Basically agreeable stuff, but not much more. And that's a shame.
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.
40
Film.com
Robert Horton
As flat as the brim of a Mountie hat.
38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Like an obnoxious uncle desparately trying to amuse the young'uns with poo-poo humor and dum-dum pratfalls.
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.
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.
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.
 The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
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