Honeymooners, The

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

It honors the tone of that wonderful comedy while setting it in present-day New York City.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie's story actually does work as a story and not simply as a wheezy Hollywood formula. Sometimes you walk into a movie with quiet dread and walk out with quiet delight.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Superfluous though it may be, The Honeymooners is not so bad.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

This harmless but mediocre enterprise was doomed to failure from the start. Hollywood magic can do a lot, but it can't raise the dead.

Chicago Reader Staff (Not credited)

Plays a bit better than it sounds. I miss the show's mangy, minimalist sets, but the slapdash narrative construction and good-hearted schmaltz survive intact.

San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego

The Honeymooners isn't the worst of the endless spate of TV rehashes, but it still feels perfunctory.

Variety Joe Leydon

Just funny enough to mollify purists and amuse the uninitiated.

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

Epps has a nicely beaten charm to him -- among the leads, he alone looks like he knows what a trip to the moon costs.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

John Leguizamo steals the show as its sleazy trainer -- not that there's much to steal from John Schultz's joylessly schematic paycheck.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Lunchbox-toting time-waster.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

No less amusing than an average sitcom, but that's certainly not reason enough to buy a ticket.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

At least The Honeymooners is not one of those remakes that looks bad compared to the original. It's just bad, period.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Cedric is certainly the bright spot in this movie - personable, silly and lovable, with just enough of Gleason's girth, timing and humanity to make you wish he'd driven Ralph Kramden's bus onto the lot of a different movie.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

The movie suffers from a devastating flaw for a comedy: It isn't very funny.

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

What's missing is some faith in the audience's intelligence and, more importantly, the jokes.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

A lackluster affair, devoid of laughs and just about anything else one might construe as entertainment.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

This appalling multiculti upgrade of the ’50s sitcom is about as funny as a bus accident.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

When a performer as sharp as Cedric the Entertainer is reduced to funny fat-guy shtick, you know you're in the presence of grinding mediocrity.

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

John Schultz's wan, unfunny The Honeymooners is unlikely to tickle devotees of Jackie Gleason's archetypal yuk-fest.

Washington Post Teresa Wiltz

Though Cedric, for all his nimble portliness, is no Gleason, there's plenty of talent to be found here. Too bad it's left to fend for itself against a raging mechanical bull of a script.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

The filmmakers have also advertised that their new movie eliminates the "Pow! Right in the kisser!" threats of spousal abuse that permeated the original series. The question of audience abuse has yet to be addressed.

USA Today Mike Clark

A pitiful update that saddles poor Cedric the Entertainer with the unenviable task of taking over Jackie Gleason's premier creation, Ralph Kramden.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A bland, dull and only occasionally funny waste of time that will very soon be gathering dust in the remainder bins.

Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand

This one is so bad that even Ed Norton couldn't get this mess to move through the sewer.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

It’s a shame when a movie brings together so many underutilized thespians of color – even Ajay Naidu of "Office Space" is in here someplace – and gives them absolutely nothing to do.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

It's not as bad as the average Hollywood movie, it's stupendously worse.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Suffice it to say, there is no comedy, no chemistry, no nothing in this movie.