Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Critic Reviews

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

It underscores the gruesome legacy of Saturday Night Live in American movies...They haven't liberated screen comedy, they've left it neutered--or, should I say, Spade. Read the full review

This David Spade comedy breaks an ankle, ruptures several knee ligaments and hits the dirt harder than a felled linebacker. Best thing you can do for this movie? Leave it writhing in the throes of forced humor. 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

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

Spade can still be funny when he lets himself be mean, and Dickie Roberts shows glimmers of that dynamic, but they're muscled out by lazy slapstick and maudlin stuff.Read the full review

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