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Avg. Critic Score: 36 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Not for kids 14 and under
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    This sleek and sunny comedy is an all-too-rare example of smart and inventive Hollywood filmmaking. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    The rare David Spade movie that won't make you hate yourself in the morning. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Offers a largely satisfying mix of broad slapstick, seriocomic sentimentality and mostly amusing satirical thrusts at easy targets. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    The movie has been made with consummate carelessness but with occasional moments of knowing humor. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Spade goes sweet and gooey. This is nucking futs. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    There are laughs, to be sure, and some gleeful supporting performances, but after a promising start the movie sinks in a bog of sentiment. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Sharp satire or feel-good foolishness? Silly sap won out. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The number of levels on which these pros trade on their diminished reputations makes the movie an inside joke rather than a funny one. If Spade thinks otherwise, he's nucking futs. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    Generally succeeds -- in hit-and-miss fashion -- at bridging the gap between unlikable jerk and misunderstood good guy, though it's still something of a leap to leading-man territory. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Maintaining a winking distance from his comic persona, Mr. Spade radiates a cunning show-business cynicism that lets you know he's aware that he's slumming to make a buck. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Not for kids 14 and under Not at all funny David Spade movie.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that there's lots of stuff here that you won't want your tween seeing or repeating. This movie contains very strong language for a PG-13, including crude humor, alcohol and drug references, and a joke about Jesus that some people may find offensive.
  • Families can talk about some of their favorite child stars and what they would and would not like about being famous.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Lots of crude humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Accidents are played for laughs. Comic peril.
  • sex false3 Sex: Leering sexual humor.
  • language false5 Language: Very strong and crude language for a PG-13.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: References to alcohol and drug abuse.

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