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Metascore
23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyThis whole movie is fun, and smart too, a fitting tribute to Jay Ward's original cartoons.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoThe needle on the laugh-o-meter barely budges.
- 50Boston GlobeBoston GlobeNever gets horribly bad, but can't sustain its moments of inspiration either.
- 40Film.comRobert HortonFilm.comRobert HortonAs flat as the brim of a Mountie hat.
- 40Enough 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.
- 40TV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsTV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsThe plot is Kate-Moss thin. Basically agreeable stuff, but not much more. And that's a shame.
- 35TNT RoughCutTNT RoughCutFollows the current trend of once-popular cartoons turned into mediocre live-action incarnations.
- 30Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThis terrible live-action comedy based on Jay Ward cartoons has its moments and its near misses.
- 25Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakSeattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakA big dud.