Bottle Rocket Critic Reviews

The title refers to cheap fireworks that fizz before they flame out quietly, and that's what three Southwestern slackers do in this amiable heist movie-cum-road flick.Read the full review

Full of surprising warmth and charm, unexpected plot turns and droll characters that bounce off each other in refreshing ways.Read the full review

Rocket flies with comic-kaze crooks. [21 February 1996, p. D6]Read the full review

A hilarious, inventive and goofy breath of fresh air.Read the full review

sStarts and finishes strong, but, somewhere in the middle, it loses its focus and its way.Read the full review

Gets by on quirky charm and slacker chic-but just barely. Read the full review

A mildly facetious tone limits Anderson's film to the lightweight, but the collective enthusiasm behind this debut effort still comes through. What's best about Bottle Rocket is not the laid-back pranks that inflate its story to feature length but the offbeat elan with which that story is told. Read the full review

Entertaining if you understand exactly what it is: if you see it as a film made by friends out of the materials presented by their lives and with the freedom to not push too hard.Read the full review