Yoga Hosers
Invincible Pictures | Release Date: September 2, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 1, 2016
Yoga Hosers is the best film Kevin Smith has made in a long time, which admittedly isn’t saying much. But this new cult comedy-thriller may well represent a turning point for the writer-director. Read full review
50
The Film StageJohn FinkFeb 1, 2016
Yoga Hosers isn’t a bad time at the movies, but it’s painful when the gags fall flat. Read full review
40
Screen DailyAnthony KaufmanFeb 1, 2016
Yoga Hosers is a movie that feels like it was more fun to make than to watch. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsSep 2, 2016
Yoga Hosers is tiring, and not because it's dumb or inherently obnoxious. No, as RogerEbert.com's resident Kevin Smith apologist, it pains me to say this, but: this movie should have been made by someone with more discipline. Read full review
33
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerFeb 1, 2016
While Yoga Hosers continues Smith’s quest to push himself into increasingly strange and uncomfortable directions as a filmmaker, it’s either too derivative or too malformed to work the vast majority of the time. Read full review
33
The PlaylistRuss FischerFeb 1, 2016
Kevin Smith's Yoga Hosers is a flabby, goofy, comically inert cartoon. Read full review
30
The New York TimesGlenn KennySep 1, 2016
Some of Mr. Smith’s prior work made me laugh so hard that I cried; Yoga Hosers made me want to cry for different reasons. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshSep 1, 2016
There’s enough weirdness for Yoga Hosers to possibly generate some stoner cult appeal, but it’s shoddily slapped together, with a clearly first-draft script, terrible editing (by Smith the elder) and continuity errors. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeFeb 1, 2016
Even fans who've stuck with Smith for two decades may draw the line at this outing, which offers ingredients just as inexplicable as those in Tusk (it's a sort of spinoff of that film) without the captivating weirdness that sometimes brought that midnighter to life. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Aug 31, 2016
Trouble is, Yoga Hosers isn’t really a movie. It’s a quarter-to-1:00 a.m. SNL sketch, nightmarishly distended into oblivion. It’s a corny Canuck joke, told for 88 surreally unfunny minutes. It has a target demographic of one: He wears hockey jerseys and, again, loves his daughter. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaAug 28, 2016
Any of the film's attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics. Read full review
20
Village VoicePete Vonder HaarAug 30, 2016
Yoga Hosers is lazy, unfunny, and self-indulgent. Read full review
20
The GuardianNigel M SmithFeb 1, 2016
[A] lazy affair that aims for inspired lunacy but misses the mark by a mile. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangFeb 1, 2016
If it’s true, as Kevin Smith noted in his lengthy introductory remarks at Sundance, that “failure is just success training,” then he should be in the best shape of his career after Yoga Hosers, an imbecilic, strenuously wacky helping of see-what-sticks juvenilia. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanSep 1, 2016
Unless you’re Kevin Smith, don’t expect Yoga Hosers to be funny or clever or well directed. It isn’t for you. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 1, 2016
Mr. Garman’s showcase has very little to do with anything else, but he’s a pal of Mr. Smith’s and, at the very least, his performance is a filet of wit amid a heaping helping of comedic byproduct. Read full review
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TheWrapSam FragosoSep 2, 2016
Instead of a film that’s gleefully outlandish (see: “Sausage Party”), Yoga Hosers is a drag. It contains none of the vivacity of “Clerks,” “Mallrats” or “Chasing Amy,” and plenty of references to those days of yesteryear. It’s a cannibalization of all that we once loved about Smith and his movies. Read full review
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