Cool Runnings

Buena Vista Pictures Distribution | Release Date: October 1, 1993

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60	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews

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Angie Errigo

Cheesy? Certainly. But strong performances and a heart-warming storyline make this a winner. Read full review

Steve Persall

Cool Runnings is enormously unfaithful to its subject, piling on one sports cliche after another with shallow characterizations...Regardless of those faults, Cool Runnings has an agreeable goofiness to it that brushes aside any picky complaints. It isn't art, but it surely is disposable fun. [1 Oct 1993, p.6B]

Staff (Not Credited)

Cool Runnings has a great premise: a movie based on the true story of the Jamaican bobsledders who amused the world at the 1988 Olympics. But this Disney film, a stale and out-of-date offering, is far less interesting than seeing the real athletes during the Olympic telecasts. Read full review

Jay Carr

It's all prefab stuff, rendered acceptable by the sunny dispositions of the performers and the Jamaican location shots. You really have to love bobsledding, or Jamaica, or both, to love Cool Runnings. [1 Oct 1993, p.55]

Tom Green

You'll figure out just about everything that's going to happen in Cool Runnings, a congenial Disney comedy, quicker than an icicle melts in Kingston. [4 Oct 1993, p.4D]

Hollis Chacona

Often silly but almost never funny -- no matter how often it practices the same jokes. Read full review