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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireCaroline WestbrookEmpireCaroline WestbrookBoth assuredly funny without being forced, and smart without being smug, this is one comedy that deserves to go forth and, indeed, multiply.
- 80VarietyLeonard KladyVarietyLeonard KladyThe picture provides hilarious complications to the arithmetic mayhem and will be one of the strongest performers in the second half of the summer, its inventive edge standing up to the barrage of flashier effects pics.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWatching the film, I enjoyed a lot of it, especially Keaton's permutations on the theme of himself. But I wondered why the possibilities weren't taken to greater comic extremes.
- Despite the obvious potential for comic disaster, the results are only intermittently amusing. Keaton's Kinney is such a selfish, lemon-lipped wet blanket, you can't help wishing he'd been diminished a little with each cloning, until there was nothing left of him at all.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumRamis’ talented, underused SCTV colleague Eugene Levy makes a brief, welcome appearance as a nuttily dim cement contractor, but he’s a zany interlude in an otherwise muted, unzany tale.
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMultiplicity weaves such an uninteresting plot around its bland, generic principals that it rarely reaches the absurdist heights its premise demands.
- 50Time OutTime OutUnfortunately, in trying to rein in the material and impose some kind of closure, the film-makers plump for an inadequate, bourgeois sit-com mode and the movie evaporates before your eyes. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, and hats off to Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton and - very funny in a supporting turn - Michael Keaton.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe early scenes are amusing and true to life.
- 40Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversBy the fourth clone, played as a babbling simpleton, Keaton has exhausted the gimmick and the audience. I’d trade a dozen Dougs for one Beetlejuice.
- 30Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleThese elements fail to rescue Multiplicity from its moronic plot devices, orchestrated by husband-and-wife writing team Chris Miller (National Lampoon's Animal House) and Mary Hale. Despite my better judgment, each movie with Andie MacDowell makes me think that she'll have improved her acting skills. Unfortunately, Multiplicity proves me wrong once again.