Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Critic Reviews
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This sleek and sunny comedy is an all-too-rare example of smart and inventive Hollywood filmmaking.Read the full review
The rare David Spade movie that won't make you hate yourself in the morning. Read the full review
Manages to fascinate more than it entertains.Read the full review
Offers a largely satisfying mix of broad slapstick, seriocomic sentimentality and mostly amusing satirical thrusts at easy targets. Read the full review
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 the full review
The movie has been made with consummate carelessness but with occasional moments of knowing humor.Read the full review
Sharp satire or feel-good foolishness? Silly sap won out. Read the full review
Spade goes sweet and gooey. This is nucking futs. Read the full review
Squanders endless opportunities for sharp satire, keeping to a steady course of tame, toothless comedy, and wrapping things up with the kind of vapid ending "The Brady Bunch" would be proud to call its own. Read the full review
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 the full review
