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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Exhibiting high spirits and a crazed comic energy. It doesn't quite work, but it goes down swinging--with a disembodied hand. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Gene Seymour

    What Idle Hands lacks in originality, it makes up for in energy and insolence. It takes guts for a movie to indulge as much as this one does in proto-hippie humor and you find yourself tickled, in spite of yourself, by the movie's nerve, if not its jokes. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly |

    Let us now praise Seth ''Scott Evil'' Green, whose beautiful delivery of otherwise generic wisecracks is all that stands between this painfully derivative horror comedy and a premature date with the eject button. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Ill-timed "Hands" has a very limited grasp of comedy. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Bob Graham

    When a movie sets out to be awful and achieves its goal, does that make it a success? Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Lawrence Van Gelder

    Even pretensions toward the humorous and hip cannot save this blood-drenched film from its innate tastelessness. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Let's talk about it quickly, because the thumbs of both my hands have gone similarly crazy. They're pointing downward and refuse to budge until I finish this review. Read full review

  • 10
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Perhaps thinking he had a farce to play with, Flender encourages tons of mugging; by overplaying what should be underplayed, helmer and cast deliver a fatal stab to the intended comedy-horror. Read full review

  • 0
    Salon.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

    As stupefyng as Idle Hands is while the title appendage is still attached to Anton, it goes into a whole other realm of godawfulness when the demon digits take off on their own. Read full review

  • 0
    USA Today | Staff [Not Credited]

    It's an unholy mess. Read full review

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