Dudley Do-Right

Variety Joe Leydon

One of the summer's more pleasant surprises. A silly bit of tiptop tomfoolery with cross-generational appeal.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

I enjoyed the film more than I expected to. It's harmless, simple-minded.

New York Post Hannah Brown

A kindler, gentler comedy that's perfect for children and parents to see together.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Eric Idle--a royal among sillies--turns in a wonderfully wacky performance.

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.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

This whole movie is fun, and smart too, a fitting tribute to Jay Ward's original cartoons.

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Works well as family entertainment.

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.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.

San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego

The needle on the laugh-o-meter barely budges.

Boston Globe Betsy Sherman

Never gets horribly bad, but can't sustain its moments of inspiration either.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.

TV Guide Steve Simels

The plot is Kate-Moss thin. Basically agreeable stuff, but not much more. And that's a shame.

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.

Film.com Robert Horton

As flat as the brim of a Mountie hat.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

Like an obnoxious uncle desparately trying to amuse the young'uns with poo-poo humor and dum-dum pratfalls.

TNT RoughCut Matt Kelsey

Follows the current trend of once-popular cartoons turned into mediocre live-action incarnations.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

This terrible live-action comedy based on Jay Ward cartoons has its moments and its near misses.

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

A big dud.

Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers

Wilson's plot compulsively leaps from paper-thin to near-incoherent.

USA Today Mike Clark

Dead-carcass spinoff of Jay Ward's animated TV favorite.

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.