Drowning Mona Critic Reviews
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Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.Read the full review
With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.Read the full review
My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter.Read the full review
The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.Read the full review
Tries for deadpan laughs but is merely lifeless.Read the full review
A funny comedy for about 90 seconds. Then Bette Midler goes off a cliff.Read the full review
The bad-taste murder farce is just an excuse for a bunch of actors to go slumming and ride about in - ha, ha - Yugos.Read the full review
The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order.Read the full review
A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery.Read the full review
A white-trash black comedy, a caustic working-class whodunit in which the solution to the murder mystery takes a distant back seat to countless barbs and jibes tossed in the direction of the mostly imbecilic cast of characters.Read the full review
